from December 5-8, 2024
Reliable and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Workshop
at the The 16th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2024)
Description
The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is driving massive transformations across many sectors, such as finance, robotics, manufacturing and healthcare. It is critical to design, develop and deploy reliable and robust AI models for building trustworthy systems that offer trusted services to users with high-stakes decision-making, including AI-assisted robotic surgery, automated financial trading, and autonomous driving. Nevertheless, AI applications are vulnerable to reliability issues, such as concept drifts, dataset shifts, misspecifications, misconfiguration of model parameters, perturbations, and adversarial attacks on human or even machine comprehension levels, thereby posing tangible threats to various stakeholders at different levels. This workshop aims to draw together state-of-the-art artificial intelligence advances to address challenges for ensuring reliability, security and privacy in trustworthy systems. The following topics are welcomed but not limited to (i) trustworthy large AI models, (ii) bias and fairness, (iii) explainability, (iv) robust mitigation of adversarial attacks, (v) improved privacy and security in model development, (vi) scalability and (vii) resource efficiency.
We invite research work from all aspects of learning algorithms that can deal with reliable, robust and secure issues. The workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for AI researchers and analytics experts from academics and industries to build trustworthy AI systems by developing and assessing theoretical and empirical methods, practical applications, and new ideas and identifying directions for future studies.
Topics of Interest
Topics of the special session include (reliable/robustness/secure learning methods), including but not limited to:
Robustness of machine learning/deep learning/reinforcement learning algorithms and trustworthy systems in general.
Confidence, consistency, and uncertainty in model predictions for reliability beyond robustness.
Transparent AI concepts in data collection, model development, deployment and explainability.
Adversarial attacks - evasion, poisoning, extraction, inference, and hybrid.
New solutions to make a system robust and secure to novel or potentially adversarial inputs; to handle model misspecification, corrupted training data, addressing concept drifts, dataset shifts, and missing/manipulated data instances.
Theoretical and empirical analysis of reliable/robust/secure ML methods.
Comparative studies with competing methods without reliable/robust certified properties.
Applications of reliable/robust machine learning algorithms in domains such as healthcare, biomedical, finance, computer vision, natural language processing, big data, and all other relevant areas.
Unique societal and legal challenges facing reliability for trustworthy AI systems.
Secure learning from data having high missing values, incompleteness, noisy
Private learning from sensitive and protected data
Important dates
Early Registration Deadline: 11 October 2024
Workshop's Paper Submission Deadline: 12 November, AoE, 2024 20 November, AoE, 2024
Workshop's Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2024 22 November 2024
Regular Registration Deadline: 15 November 2024
Workshop's Camera Ready Submission: 30 November 2024
Workshop Dates: 8 December 2024
Submission guideline: .
Latex Template: ACML2024-Latex
Submission page: https://forms.gle/3MNewdHC2XSF8xdW9
Invited Speakers
Assoc. Prof Cam-Tu Nguyen
Biography: Cam-Tu Nguyen earned her PhD from Tohoku University, Japan, and is currently an Associate Professor at Nanjing University, China. She has approximately 15 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence and its applications, with a strong publication record in leading international journals such as TKDE, TKDD, TALLIP, TWEB, and TON, as well as in major AI and computer science conferences like IJCAI, AAAI, EMNLP, CIKM, ACM MM, USENIX ATC, and InfoCom. Her research over the past five years has focused on conversational AI, particularly in tasks such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM-based agents, and multi-modal conversational systems. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Nanjing University Outstanding Researcher Award (2015), the IBM Best Paper Award at the ArgMining Workshop (2018), and the Alibaba Outstanding Collaborator Award (2024). She also actively contributes to the AI community as a program committee member for leading conferences, including IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, and PAKDD.
Dr. Alain Bui
Biography: Dr. Alain Bui is a distinguished AI expert in computer vision, document processing, and machine learning systems with a strong background in developing and deploying AI solutions across various industries. Holding a PhD in computer science from the University of La Rochelle, France, he has leveraged his expertise to shape the AI strategy at a successful startup in Paris, driving innovation and growth. Currently, Dr. Bui assumes multiple roles at SotaTek and its partners, including Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SotaTek JSC, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at DopikAI JSC, and AI Architect Lead at DeepTensor AB, Sweden. Previously, he served as an assistant professor at the University of La Rochelle and IDMC (Institut des sciences du Digital Management & Cognition) at the University of Lorraine, France, where he contributed to the development of AI research and education.
Prof. Truyen Tran
Biography: Dr. Truyen Tran is a Full Professor at Deakin University, Australia, where he serves as Head of AI, Health and Science, Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2). In his role, he leads a world-class team developing robust human-compatible Generalist AI (AI Future). This technology is then leveraged to accelerate science and engineering (AI4Science) and improve health outcomes (AI4Health). AI Future envisions AI agents as a new digital species integrated into our society, equipped with advanced reasoning and planning capabilities while maintaining robust alignment with human values. His AI4Science research program develops AI Scientists spanning STEM fields, while the AI4Health program focuses on clinical prediction, medical image analysis, and Generative AI for healthcare. Dr. Tran has received multiple international awards for his significant research contributions. He obtained his BSc degree from the University of Melbourne in 2001 and a PhD in Computer Science from Curtin University in 2008.
The Venue
The 16th Asian Conference on Machine Learning will be held in person from December 5-8, 2024, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML) is an international conference in the area of machine learning. It aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in Machine Learning and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements.
ACML 2024 will be held physically, during Dec 5-8, 2024.