Venue: Auditorium 1 (Teorifagbygget Hus 1, Floor U1) at the UiT Campus
Tuesday, Jan. 6th
08:30 - 09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00 - 09:30 Opening with speech from Jørgen Berge, Prorector for Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
09:30-10:15 Keynote Talk: Yuki M. Asano
10:15-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-12:00 Oral session 1 (4 x 15 min talks + 5 min questions per talk)
10:40 – 11:00: CID: Measuring Feature Importance Through Counterfactual Distributions
Eddie Conti, Álvaro Parafita, Axel Brando
11:00 – 11:20: Extremal Contours: Gradient-driven contours for compact visual attribution
Reza Karimzadeh, Albert Alonso, Frans Zdyb, Julius B. Kirkegaard, Bulat Ibragimov
11:20 – 11:40: Counterfactual generation for Out-of-Distribution data
Nawid Keshtmand, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Jonathan Lawry
11:40 – 12:00: Assessing Explanation Fragility of SHAP using Counterfactuals
Cornelia C. Käsbohrer, Sebastian Mair, Lili Jiang
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:40 Oral session 2 (2 x 15 min talks + 5 min questions per talk)
13:00 – 13:20: On the Generalisation of Koopman Representations for Chaotic System Control
Kyriakos Hjikakou, Juan Cardenas-Cartagena, Matthia Sabatelli
13:20 – 13:40: Analyzing Fairness of Neural Network Prediction via Counterfactual Dataset Generation
Brian Hyeongseok Kim, Jacqueline Mitchell, Chao Wang
13:45 – 15:15: Poster session 1
Eddie Conti, Álvaro Parafita, Axel Brando
Reza Karimzadeh, Albert Alonso, Frans Zdyb, Julius B. Kirkegaard, Bulat Ibragimov
Nawid Keshtmand, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Jonathan Lawry
Cornelia C. Käsbohrer, Sebastian Mair, Lili Jiang
Kyriakos Hjikakou, Juan Cardenas-Cartagena, Matthia Sabatelli
Brian Hyeongseok Kim, Jacqueline Mitchell, Chao Wang
Tobias Aanderaa Opsahl
Anna Emilie Jennow Wedenborg, Teresa Dorszewski, Lars Kai Hansen, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm, Morten Mørup
Aslak Djupskås, Signe Riemer-Sørensen, Alexander Johannes Stasik
Josué Martínez-Martínez, John T Holodnak, Olivia Brown, Sheida Nabavi, Derek Aguiar, Allan Wollaber
Albert Kjøller Jacobsen, Johanna Marie Gegenfurtner, Georgios Arvanitidis
Abhinav Sagar
Ruan P. Van der Spoel, Randle Rabe
Posters from extended abstracts:
Adversarial Attacks through Value-Guided Transition Modeling in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Thomas OCuilleanain, Juan Cardenas-Cartagena, Matthia Sabatelli
Gradient-based Optimization for Compact and Explainable Fuzzy Rule-based Classification
Javier Fumanal-Idocin, Raquel Fernandez-Peralta, Javier Andreu-Perez
On The Presence of Double-Descent in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Viktor Veselý, Aleksandar Todorov, Matthia Sabatelli
From Finite Element Analysis to Self-Optimization: FRAME (Finite element Reasoning and AI-Agent Model Engine) and the Era of Agentic AI in Engineering
Mahish K. Guru, Vipul Gupta, Kartik Bali, Roland Aydin
Improved probabilistic regression using diffusion models
Carlo Kneissl, Christopher Bülte, Philipp Scholl, Gitta Kutyniok
Random Spiking Neural Networks are Stable and Spectrally Simple
Ernesto Araya, Massimiliano Datres, Gitta Kutyniok
Data Dowsing: Determining Data Collection Priorities
Ryan Marinelli
Mode Connectivity in Neural Quantum States
Vinicius Hernandes, Thomas Spriggs, Eliska Greplova
The Price of Robustness: Stable Classifiers Need Overparameterization
Jonas von Berg, Adalbert Fono, Massimiliano Datres, Sohir Maskey, Gitta Kutyniok
Flatness Has a Shape: Scalar Curvature and Functional Dimension in Neural Loss Landscapes
Johanna Marie Gegenfurtner
Learnable Masks for Time Series Explainability using Time-Frequency Representations
Theresa Dahl Frehr, Thea Brüsch, Tommy Sonne Alstrøm
GOGH: Correlation-Guided Orchestration of GPUs in Heterogeneous Clusters
Ahmad raeisi, Mahdi Dolati, Sina Darabi, M. Sadegh Talebi, Patrick Eugster, Ahmad Khonsari
Towards Neural Kolmogorov Equations: Parallelizable SDE Learning with Neural PDEs
Arthur Bizzi, Olga Fink
Thermodynamic Deep Learning: Interpreting Gradient Descent as Energy Flow in a Learning Universe
Gokul Srinath Seetha Ram
Parameterized Anchor Representations via Adaptive Matrices (PARAM) for Relative-Representations
Oscar Thorsted Svendsen, Nikolaj Holst Jakobsen, Fabian Mager, Hiba Nassar
The Brittleness of Priors: An Empirical Case for Adaptive Neural Architectures
Dawud Hage
15:15 – 17:15 Diversity in AI (Program)
17:15 – 18:00 Mingling session
18:00: Trip to Sommarøy
Wednesday, Jan. 7th:
08:30-09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00-09:45 Keynote Talk: Devis Tuia
09:45-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:40 Oral session 3 (4 x 15 min talks + 5 min questions per talk)
10:20 – 10:40: AI-Enabled Vessels Segmentation Model for Real-Time Laparoscopic Ultrasound Imaging
Ignas Kupcikevicius, Luca Boretto, Inger A. Grunbeck, Rahul Prasanna Kumar, VARATHARAJAN NAINAMALAI, Mehdi Sadat Akhavi, Bjørn Edwin, Ole Jakob Elle
10:40 – 11:00:Incorporating the Cycle Inductive Bias in Masked Autoencoders
Stuart Gallina Ottersen, Kerstin Bach
11:00 – 11:20: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Cross-Domain Time-Series Modeling in Health and Activity Monitoring
Hamza Haruna Mohammed, Gabriel Kiss, Frank Lindseth
11:20 – 11:40: Spatio-Temporal Landmark Detection via Selective Fine-Tuning of Echocardiography Foundation Models
Preetraj Bhoodoo, Sarina Thomas, Elisabeth Wetzer, Anne Schistad Solberg, Guy Ben-Yosef
11:40-11:45 Group Photo
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-13:30 Keynote Talk: Ira Assent
13:30-15:00 Poster session 2
AI-Enabled Vessels Segmentation Model for Real-Time Laparoscopic Ultrasound Imaging
Ignas Kupcikevicius, Luca Boretto, Inger A. Grunbeck, Rahul Prasanna Kumar, VARATHARAJAN NAINAMALAI, Mehdi Sadat Akhavi, Bjørn Edwin, Ole Jakob Elle
Incorporating the Cycle Inductive Bias in Masked Autoencoders
Stuart Gallina Ottersen, Kerstin Bach
Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Cross-Domain Time-Series Modeling in Health and Activity Monitoring
Hamza Haruna Mohammed, Gabriel Kiss, Frank Lindseth
Spatio-Temporal Landmark Detection via Selective Fine-Tuning of Echocardiography Foundation Models
Preetraj Bhoodoo, Sarina Thomas, Elisabeth Wetzer, Anne Schistad Solberg, Guy Ben-Yosef
How PARTs assemble into wholes: Learning the relative composition of images
Melika Ayoughi, Samira Abnar, Chen Huang, Christopher Michael Sandino, Sayeri Lala, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Dan Busbridge, Shuangfei Zhai, Vimal Thilak, Joshua M. Susskind, Pascal Mettes, Paul Groth, Hanlin Goh
Using Ensemble Diffusion to Estimate Uncertainty for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Florian Wintel, Sigmund Hennum Høeg, Gabriel Kiss, Frank Lindseth
Wangyang Wu, Ribana Roscher, Niklas Tötsch
August Leander Høeg, Sophia W. Bardenfleth, Hans Martin Kjer, Tim B. Dyrby, Vedrana Andersen Dahl, Anders Dahl
Structured Covariance Modeling Using Learned Mixture-of-Bases for Uncertainty in 3D Segmentation
Peter J.T. Kampen, Andreas With Aspe, Kristine Aavild Juhl, Anders Nymark Christensen, Morten Rieger Hannemose, Anders Dahl, Rasmus Reinhold Paulsen, Josefine Vilsbøll Sundgaard
Preserving Ordinality in Diabetic Retinopathy Grading through a Distribution-Based Loss Function
Lena Stelter, Valentina Corbetta, Soufyan Lakbir, Regina Beets-Tan, Ricardo P. M. Cruz, Jaime S Cardoso, Wilson Silva
Towards clinical application of liver, vessel, and tumor segmentation using partially labeled data
Eirik Agnalt Østmo, Keyur Radiya, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm, Michael Kampffmeyer, Karl Øyvind Mikalsen, Robert Jenssen
Towards Agnostic and Holistic Universal Image Segmentation with Bit Diffusion
Jakob Lønborg Christensen, Morten Rieger Hannemose, Anders Dahl, Vedrana Andersen Dahl
Comparing Foundation Models for Medical Images: A Study on Limited Data and Generalization
Ingrid Utseth, Amund Hansen Vedal, Sarina Thomas, Line Eikvil
EEG Guided Token Selection in VQ for Visual Brain Decoding
Abhishek Rathore, PushapDeep Singh, Arnav Bhavsar
Posters from extended abstracts:
Reducing Administrative Burden in Clinics: Utilizing OCR and LLM Technology for Seamless External Document Handling
Bahadır Eryılmaz
CONDITIONAL DIFFUSION INPAINTING FOR SKETCH-TO-FACE SYNTHESIS
Sanhita Pathak, Vinay Kaushik, Brejesh Lall
Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Spatial Biology: Evaluating Cell Type Hierarchies in Breast Cancer Imaging Data
Youssef Wally, Johan Mylius-Kroken, Michael Kampffmeyer, Rezvan Ehsani, Vladan Milosevic, Elisabeth Wetzer
Reconsidering Spatial Alignment for Longitudinal Breast Cancer Risk Prediction
Solveig Thrun, Stine Hansen, Zijun Sun, Nele Blum, Suaiba Amina Salahuddin, XIN WANG, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm, Elisabeth Wetzer, Robert Jenssen, Maik Stille, Michael Kampffmeyer
Lighting Enhancement and Skin Lesion Analysis in Macroscopic Images using Genetic Algorithms and Deep Neural Networks
Vanesa Gómez-Martínez, Cristina Soguero-Ruiz
Charting Cellular Networks in the Tumor Microenvironment: Graph Visualizations in Highly-Multiplexed Breast Cancer Tissue
Lara Elvevåg, Youssef Wally, Benjamin Ricaud, Vladan Milosevic, Elisabeth Wetzer
Physics-Based X-ray CT Simulation for Synthetic Data Generation and Deep Learning Segmentation of Energy Materials
Nadia Mariana Leal Reyes, Salvatore De Angelis, Estrid Buhl Naver, Luise Theil Kuhn, Peter Stanley Jørgensen
Autoencoder Spectral Unmixing for Single-Cell Raman Analysis
Emil Alstrup Jensen, Lasse Ebdrup Pedersen, Anders Kristensen, Line H Clemmensen
Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Fast Cerebral Perfusion Assessment in Stroke Digital Twins
Sebastiaan Broos, Thijs P. Kuipers, Henk Marquering
DIMAFv2: Interpretable Multimodal Disentangled Representations for Breast Cancer Survival Prediction
Aniek Eijpe, Soufyan Lakbir, Melis Erdal Cesur, Sara P. Oliveira, Sanne Abeln, Wilson Silva
Comparison of Neural Networks and Gradient Boosting Models on Ordinal Age Class Prediction using Mouse Trajectories
Tobias Wistuba, Lisa Bondo Andersen, Ailin Liu, Felix Henninger, Frauke Kreuter, Sonja Greven
Impact of algorithm choice when using off-the-shelf AI segmentation methods in large-scale medical analyses
Emelie Bäcklin, Eva Breznik
Towards Multimodal Deep Learning for Predicting Survival of Brain Metastatic Cancer
Inês N. Carvalho
InV3st: Open-Vocabulary Object Detection and Instance Segmentation in 3D Crime Scenes
Michael Greza, Florian Eichinger, Yi Wang, Benjamin Busam
15:00-16:40 Oral session 4 (5 x 15 minute talks + 5 min questions per talk)
15:00 - 15:20: How PARTs assemble into wholes: Learning the relative composition of images
Melika Ayoughi, Samira Abnar, Chen Huang, Christopher Michael Sandino, Sayeri Lala, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Dan Busbridge, Shuangfei Zhai, Vimal Thilak, Joshua M. Susskind, Pascal Mettes, Paul Groth, Hanlin Goh
15:20 - 15:40: Using Ensemble Diffusion to Estimate Uncertainty for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Florian Wintel, Sigmund Hennum Høeg, Gabriel Kiss, Frank Lindseth
15:40 - 16:00: SimGroupAttn: Similarity-Guided Group Attention for Vision Transformer to Incorporate Population Information in Plant Disease Detection
Wangyang Wu, Ribana Roscher, Niklas Tötsch
16:00 - 16:20: MTVNet: Multi-Contextual Transformers for Volumes – Network for Super-Resolution with Long-Range Interactions
August Leander Høeg, Sophia W. Bardenfleth, Hans Martin Kjer, Tim B. Dyrby, Vedrana Andersen Dahl, Anders Dahl
16:20 - 16:40 Structured Covariance Modeling Using Learned Mixture-of-Bases for Uncertainty in 3D Segmentation
Peter J.T. Kampen, Andreas With Aspe, Kristine Aavild Juhl, Anders Nymark Christensen, Morten Rieger Hannemose, Anders Dahl, Rasmus Reinhold Paulsen, Josefine Vilsbøll Sundgaard
19:00- Conference dinner at Scandic Ishavshotel (Google Maps)
Thursday, Jan. 8th:
08:30-09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00-09:45 Keynote Talk: Shaheen Syed
09:45-10:10 Coffee break
10:10-10:50 Oral session 5 (4 x 15 min talks + 5 min questions per talk)
HetGSMOTE: Oversampling for Heterogeneous Graphs
Adhilsha Ansad, Deependra Singh, Rucha Bhalchandra Joshi, Subhankar Mishra
Kasper Helverskov Petersen, Mikkel N. Schmidt
10:50 – 11:50 Lunch
11:50 – 13:20 Poster session 3
HetGSMOTE: Oversampling for Heterogeneous Graphs
Adhilsha Ansad, Deependra Singh, Rucha Bhalchandra Joshi, Subhankar Mishra
https://openreview.net/forum?id=rLzas2xQGs
Design and Evaluation of a Geometric Algebra-Based Graph Neural Network for Molecular Property Prediction
Kasper Helverskov Petersen, Mikkel N. Schmidt
https://openreview.net/forum?id=aHHQByxsjB
Reducing Manual Workload in SAR-Based Oil Spill Detection Through Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning
Dina Svendsen Solskinnsbakk, Sigurd Almli Hanssen, Harald Lykke Joakimsen, Vilde B. Gjærum, Elisabeth Wetzer, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm
https://openreview.net/forum?id=8wgwRsfTuH
Learning Normal Patterns in Musical Loops
Shayan Dadman, Bernt Arild Bremdal, Børre Bang, Rune Dalmo
https://openreview.net/forum?id=Pr22XVnMW1
Predicting Calving Events in Antarctica using Machine Learning
Jacob Alexander Hay, Hamzeh Issa, David Parkes, Daniele Fantin, Jan Wuite, Amber A Leeson, Malcolm McMillan
https://openreview.net/forum?id=N5Y1FoRfiY
Self-Supervised and Unsupervised Multispectral Anomaly Detection for Unknown Substance and Surface Defect Identification
Cansu Beyaz, Mohamed Farag, Peer Schütt, Tobias Hecking, Jonas Grzesiak, Christoph Geiß, Ribana Roscher
https://openreview.net/forum?id=xFMoxTu1Te
Reflective Agents for Knowledge Graph Traversal
Michal Chudoba
Marisa Wodrich, Aasa Feragen, Mikkel N. Schmidt
Dominykas Petniunas, Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz, Petra Galuscakova
Sebastian Gerard, Josephine Sullivan
Mahagedara Waththe Samitha Nuwan Thilakarathna, Ercan Avsar, Martin Mathias Nielsen, Malte Pedersen
Posters from extended abstracts:
AI Must not be Fully Autonomous
Tosin Adewumi, Lama Alkhaled, Florent Imbert, Hui Han, Nudrat Habib, Karl Löwenmark
T-PhISH-Net: Temporally Consistent Underwater Image Enhancement via a Transformer-Based Extension of PhISH-Net
Bjørn Christian Weinbach
Enhancing Wind Power Forecasting with Adaptive Wind Speed Calibration (C-LSTM) and a Hybrid (LTC+XGBoost) Model
Merve Nur Akyer, Michael Nickel, Cagil Karakas
Towards Explainable Multimodal Land Cover Segmentation Using Swin Transformer
Islomjon Shukhratov, Mehak Khan, Reza Arghandeh
Enhancing Bitcoin Price Volatility Estimator Predictions: A Four-Step Methodological Approach Utilizing Elastic Net Regression
Georgia Zournatzidou, IOANNIS MALLIDIS, Dimitrios Farazakis, Christos Floros
Machine Learning Techniques for Matching Candidates’ Profiles with Job Advertisements
Aleksandra Davidova Stefanova, Tosin Adewumi
Augmenting Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs for Domain-Specific Applications
Sushanta Mohapatra, Tosin Adewumi
AI-Driven Talent Matching Predicting Employee Retention Through Candidate Attribute Analysis
Yasir Imtiaz Shami, Tosin Adewumi
Research on deep learning-based water quality prediction and management for intelligent aquaculture systems
Ji-Yeon Kim, Ki-Hwan Kim, Young-Jin Kang, Seok Chan Jeong
Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Plan for Te Reo Māori
Luca Blaauw Fossen, Albert Bifet, Te Taka Keegan, Samia Touileb
Subsurface Insight: Spatio-Temporal Embeddings for Hydrogeological Time Series Analysis
Quach Van Dang, Lynh HOANG-Vy-Thuy, Tuan-Anh Tran
A diffusion based approach for Oil Spill Detection in SAR Images
Sigurd Almli Hanssen, Dina Svendsen Solskinnsbakk, Harald Lykke Joakimsen, Vilde B. Gjærum, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm, Elisabeth Wetzer
Super-Resolution of Sentinel-5P Data Using Deep Learning
Saad Ahmed Jamal
Environmental Determinants of Healthcare Demand: An Explainable ML Approach for Lisbon’s Air Quality-Health Nexus
Helder Relvas, Behrouz Nemati, Sina Ataee, Farzaneh Abedian Aval, Vânia Martins, Bárbara T. Silva, Diogo Lopes, Ana Isabel Miranda
Clustering Mouse Movement Behavior in Surveys Using ResNet Embeddings
Lisa Bondo Andersen, Tobias Wistuba, Felix Henninger, Ailin Liu, Sonja Greven, Frauke Kreuter
Muffin: Muffled Audio Encoding with Filter-Based Masking
Marcel A. Vélez Vásquez
13:20 – 14:00 Oral session 6 (2 x 15 min talks + 5 min questions per talk)
Reducing Manual Workload in SAR-Based Oil Spill Detection Through Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning
Dina Svendsen Solskinnsbakk, Sigurd Almli Hanssen, Harald Lykke Joakimsen, Vilde B. Gjærum, Elisabeth Wetzer, Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm
Learning Normal Patterns in Musical Loops
Shayan Dadman, Bernt Arild Bremdal, Børre Bang, Rune Dalmo
14:00-15:00 NORA panel discussion
15:00-16:45 Industry and AI (Program)
16:45-17:00 Closing
19:00-22:00 Meet the AI Industry at Storgata Camping