Spring School 2025: Innovating AI Evaluation – Beyond Accuracy and Precision

Join us for the SAIL Spring School 2025!

We are excited to invite you to the SAIL Spring School 2025, taking place March 26-28 at the CITEC lecture hall at Bielefeld University! We have put together a great line-up of tutorials covering topics related to this year’s theme “Innovating AI Evaluation – Beyond Accuracy and Precision”. This in-person event will be a fantastic opportunity to learn, discuss and network.

Participation

We invite all doctoral students and other interested researchers to participate free of charge. While we encourage all doctoral students to apply, priority is currently given to applicants from NRW and nearby regions. To accommodate different schedules, we offer flexible registration options for individual days. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to further your education and exchange ideas through a varied program of lectures and tutorials. Meals will be generously provided by the SAIL project. For non-local participants, we recommend staying at: Hotel B&B Bielefeld City. A limited number of rooms are reserved here for Spring School participants; get in touch to receive the keyword.

Program

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Time	Topic	Speaker
13:00	Welcome & coffee
14:00 – 15:30	Tutorial 1: State Space Models	David Kappel & Anand Subramoney Bielefeld University & University of London
15:30	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Tutorial 2: AI Evaluation for Complex Knowledge Domains	Bettina Finzel University of Bamberg
18:00 – 19:30	Poster Session with pizza

Time	Topic	Speaker
9:00 – 10:30	Tutorial 3: Shielded Reinforcement Learning	Bettina Könighofer & Stefan Pranger Technical University Graz
10:30	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Tutorial 4: Demystifying Explainable LLMs: Unlocking Insights with Embeddings	Peggy Lindner & Amaury Lendasse University of Houston & Missouri University of Science and Technology
12:30	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Tutorial 5: Security of Machine Learning Systems	Thorsten Eisenhofer Technical University Berlin
15:30	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Tutorial 6: Ethical Aspects in AI Evaluation	Suzana Aplsancar & Friederike Rohde Paderborn University & Technical University Berlin
19:00	Dinner

Time	Topic	Speaker
09:00 – 10:30	Tutorial 7: Fair Reinforcement Learning	Mykola Pechenizkiy & Yingqian Zhang Eindhoven University of Technology
10:30	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Tutorial 8: Evaluation (Metrics) for Generative AI	Steffen Eger & Christoph Leiter University of Technology Nuremberg
12:30	Closing & snacks

Postersession

Information on the submission of posters will be announced shortly. We will keep you up to date here.

Contact

If you have any questions or requests, Ole Pütz will be happy to help. You can reach him by email at: contact@sail.nrw