BNAIC/BeNeLearn

Session Overview

Session 1: Wednesday 16h20 - 17h20

AI and Health (I31)
Chair: Kurt Driessens
Time	Authors	Title
16h20 - 16h40	Fakhra Jabeen, Janne Bosma, Caroline van Rooij, Renate H.M. de Groot, Tibor Bosse	A Temporal Causal Network Model of Student Mental Well-being
16h40 - 17h00	Judita Rudokaite, L.L. Sharon Ong, Joris van Eijkelenburg, Katja van den Hurk, Elisabeth Huis in 't Veld	Comparative Study of CNN Backbones for Hemoglobin Estimation from Fingernail Images
Deep Learning (I31)
17h00 - 17h20	Maira Farias Andrade Lira, Luisa Cavalcante, Celine Vens, Ricardo Prudencio, Felipe Kenji Nakano	Active semi-supervised learning for multi-target regression

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (I32)
Chair: Frank van Harmelen
Time	Authors	Title
16h20 - 16h40	Johannes E. Bendler, Tjitze Rienstra	Argument Decomposition in Abstract Dialectical Frameworks
16h40 - 17h00	Koen Kraaijveld, Yifan Jiang, Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski	COLUMBUS: Evaluating COgnitive Lateral Understanding Through Multiple-Choice reBUSes
Game Theory (I32)
Time	Authors	Title
17h00 - 17h20	Marco Saponara, Elias Fernández Domingos, Jorge M Pacheco, Tom Lenaerts	Evolution favours positively biased reasoning in sequential interactions with high future gains

Trustworthy AI (I33)
Chair: Tom Lenaerts
Time	Authors	Title
16h20 - 16h40	Alex Zwakenberg, Sietske Tacoma, Tina Mioch, Marieke M. M. Peeters	Reducing Occupation Stereotypes in T2I models using Reward Models and Prompt Optimization
16h40 - 17h00	Apurva Shah, Axel Abels, Ann Nowe, Tom Lenaerts	Artificial Delegates Resolve Fairness Issues in Perpetual Voting with Partial Turnout
17h00 - 17h20	Pim Kerkhoven, Virginia Dignum, Monowar Bhuyan	Assessing machine learning fairness with multiple contextual norms

Session 2: Thursday 9h00 - 10h20

AI and health (I31)
Chair: Jan Lemeire
Time	Authors	Title
9h00 - 9h20	Myles Joshua Toledo Tan, Maria Kapetanaki, Panayiotis V. Benos	Engineering Spatial and Molecular Features from Cellular Niches to Inform Predictions of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
9h20 - 9h40	Michiel Jacobs, Lode Vuegen, Peter Karsmakers	Evaluating Transfer Learning Strategies for Lung Sound Event Classification
9h40 - 10h00	Michael Lognoul	Aligning XAI with EU Regulations for Smart Biomedical Devices: A Methodology for Compliance Analysis

Computer Vision (I32)
Chair: Arnoud Visser
Time	Authors	Title
9h00 - 9h20	Laurent Mertens, Elahe Yargholi, Jan Van den Stock, Hans Op de Beeck, Joost Vennekens	FindingEmo - An Image Dataset for Emotion Recognition in the Wild
9h20 - 9h40	Amanda Jansen, Vivienne Jansen, Jurjen Helmus, Arnoud Visser	Predicting Damage of Dutch Road Markings
9h40 - 10h00	Fabian Wientjes, Bram Ton, Henry Maathuis	Automated Detection and Tracking of Sewer Pipeline Structural Elements
10h00 - 10h20	Aditya Shourya, Guangzhi Tang, Chang Sun	Self-Compressing Vision Tower for Efficient Dense Prediction Tasks

Deep Learning and Machine Learning (I33)
Chair: Lara Verheyen
Time	Authors	Title
9h00 - 9h20	Arn De Moor, Arne Gevaert, Jonathan Peck, Yvan Saeys	On the Effect of Gradient Regularisation on Interpretability
9h20 - 9h40	Adelina-Andreea Cazacu, Cheng Yan, Sayak Mukherjee, Tom Julian Viering	Transformers Also Struggle with Extrapolating Ill-Behaved Learning Curves
9h40 - 10h00	Andrej Hulák, Bulat Khaertdinov, Mirela Popa	Two-Stage Object Detection in Aerial Imagery with a Compact Convolutional Transformer RoI Head
10h00 - 10h20	Islam M. Momtaz A. Sadek, Eric O. Postma, Rogier Brussee, Juan Sebastian Olier	Improving Predictive Maintenance with the Health-Aware Transformer

Session 3: Thursday 14h00 - 15h20

Reinforcement Learning (I31)
Chair: Hendrik Baier
Time	Authors	Title
14h00 - 14h20	Tim van Gelder, Herke van Hoof	Learning Spatially Refined Sub-Policies for Temporal Task Composition in Continuous RL
14h20 - 14h40	Tarik Začiragić, Aske Plaat, Joost Batenburg	Analysis of Bluffing by DQN and CFR in Leduc Hold'em Poker
14h40 - 15h00	Isidoro Tamassia, Wendelin Boehmer	Improving Robustness of AlphaZero Algorithms to Test-Time Environment Changes
15h00 - 15h20	Loïc Cordeiro Fonseca, Yannick Molinghen, Tom Lenaerts	Cooperation or coincidence ? Explaining cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning

Trustworthy AI & NLP (I32)
Chair: Maxime Toquebiau
Time	Authors	Title
14h00 - 14h20	Jelle Jasper Teijema, Ayoub Bagheri	CLARIFY: Concept Level Active-Learning Ranker Interpreter for Systematic Reviews
14h20 - 14h40	Florence Nizette, Wafa Hammedi, Allard van Riel, Nadia Steils	Why should I trust you? Influence of explanation design on consumer behavior in AI-based services
14h40 - 15h00	Axel Abels, Tom Lenaerts	Wisdom from Diversity: Bias Mitigation Through Hybrid Human-LLM Crowds
15h00 - 15h20	Joris Heemskerk, Martijn Folmer, Michael Dubbeldam, Rianne van Os, Henry Maathuis	Privacy-Aware Traffic Re-Identification with Interpretable Sparse Autoencoders

AI and Society (I33)
Chair: Elias Fernandez
Time	Authors	Title
14h00 - 14h20	Tygo Bloem, Filip Ilievski	Clustering Internet Memes Across Similarity Dimensions
14h20 - 14h40	Sietske Tacoma, Matthieu Laneuville, Marieke Peeters, Stefan Leijnen	Adding Value with Foundation Models: a Balancing Act
14h40 - 15h00	Leticia Arco García, Johan Loeckx	Design Matters: Unveiling the Impact of AI Engineering Decisions on Alignment - A Case Study in School Dropout Prediction
15h00 - 15h20	Dorina Sîli, Bastian Küppers, Theodor Schnitzler	Universal Prompt Injection Techniques for Detecting LLM-based Assignment Fraud

Session 4: Thursday 16h00 - 17h00

Reinforcement Learning (I31)
Chair: Pieter Libin
Time	Authors	Title
16h00 - 16h20	Emil Malmsten, Wendelin Boehmer	TransZero: Parallel Tree Expansion in MuZero using Transformer Networks
16h20 - 16h40	Dennis J. N. J. Soemers, Spyridon Samothrakis, Kurt Driessens, Mark Winands	Encore Abstract: A Research Agenda for Usability and Generalisation in Reinforcement Learning
16h40 - 17h00	Rubens O. Moraes, Quazi Asif Sadmine, Hendrik Baier, Levi Lelis	InnateCoder: Learning Programmatic Options with Foundation Models

Time Series and Optimization (I32)
Chair: Lynn Houthuys
Time	Authors	Title
16h00 - 16h20	Tom Alard, Yvan Saeys, Arne Gevaert	Optimal Planning for Smart Energy Management of Residential Batteries
16h20 - 16h40	Florentin Goyens, Pierre-Antoine Absil, Florian Feppon	Geometric design of the tangent term in landing algorithms for orthogonality constraints

Session 5: Friday 10h40 - 11h40

Reinforcement Learning (I31)
Chair: Axel Abels
Time	Authors	Title
10h40 - 11h00	Chengpeng Hu, Ziming wang, Bo Yuan, Jialin Liu, Chengqi Zhang, Xin Yao	Robust Dynamic Material Handling via Adaptive Constrained Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
11h00 - 11h20	Angelo Roy Thompson, Andrei Alexandru Chiochiu, Noah Scharrenberg	Synthetic Document Generation for Form Understanding with Vision-Language Models
11h20 - 11h40	Maxime Toquebiau, Jae-Yun Jun, Faiz BEN AMAR, Nicolas Bredeche	Towards Language-Augmented Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Grounded AI (I32)
Chair: Katrien Beuls
Time	Authors	Title
10h40 - 11h00	Riju Mukherjee, Kurt Driessens, Dennis J. N. J. Soemers	Multi-Environment MiniGrid World Models
11h00 - 11h20	Marco Van Cleemput, Jan Lemeire, Ruben Spolmink	Generic Planning Using Qualitative Causal Models for Self-Learning Autonomous Robots
11h20 - 11h40	Stefano De Giorgis, Aldo Gangemi, Alessandro Russo	Neurosymbolic Graph Enrichment for Grounded World Models

Natural Language Processing (I33)
Chair: Paul Van Eecke
Time	Authors	Title
10h40 - 11h00	Aditya Shourya, Michel Dumontier, Chang Sun	Adapting Lightweight Vision Language Models for Radiological Visual Question Answering
11h00 - 11h20	Ruurd Jan Anthonius Kuiper, Lars de Groot, Bram van Es, Maarten van Smeden, Ayoub Bagheri	LoRA-Adapted Diffusion
11h20 - 11h40	Lars de Groot, Ruurd Jan Anthonius Kuiper, Ayoub Bagheri	A Survey of Discrete Diffusion for Text and Genomic Sequence Generation

Poster Presentations: Wednesday 17h30 - 19h30

Poster number	Authors	Title
1	Tianqi Zhao, Russa Biswas, Megha Khosla	An Instance-Level Profiling Framework for Graph-Structured Data
2	Thomas Mortier, Cas Decancq, Diego G. Miralles	Evaluating Conformal Prediction in Weather Forecasting
3	Edouard Couplet, Pierre Lambert, John Aldo Lee, Cyril de Bodt	Interpretable Parametric Neighbor Embedding
4	Augustin Crespin, Ioannis Kostis, Pierre Schaus	Railway Track Defect Detection
5	Xia Jiang, Yaoxin Wu, Minshuo Li, Yingqian Zhang	Large Language Models as End-to-end Combinatorial Optimization Solvers
6	Ioannis Kostis, Pierre Schaus	Chronology-Driven RAG for Construction Meeting Minutes
7	Cas Decancq, Thomas Mortier, Diego Miralles	Are Weather Emulators Pushing the Frontier of Subseasonal Heat Extremes Forecasting?
8	Julien Baudru, Lluc Bono Rossello, Hugues Bersini	Linking Network Topology and Mobility Function: Toward Transferable Mobility Agents Across Cities
9	Julien Albert, Martin Balfroid, Lluc Bono Rosselló, Arunav Das, Lucile Dierckx, Yanni Sun	Aligning Recommendation Explanations to User Preferences Using LLMs Fine-Tuned by Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback
10	Stig Hellemans, Kris Laukens, Pieter Meysman	User-Centric Evaluation of LLM-Based Pseudonymization in Medical Texts
11	Liam P.H. Mertens, Ann Nowe, Diederik M Roijers	Pareto Value-Conditioned Networks for MORL in Stochastic Environments
12	Pierre Dosquet, Ashwin Ittoo	LLM Size Reduction and Carbon Footprint
13	Guillaume Nguyen, Xavier Devroey	LLM-powered Cyber-Physical System Features Extraction
14	Adélaïde Couplet, Anaïs Tack, Anne-Catherine Simon	Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-native Speakers
15	Edouard Bomans, Benoit Frenay, Anne-Sophie Libert	Rethinking the Distribution Law in t-SNE by using a Pearson type VII distribution
16	Alireza Gharahighehi, Felipe Kenji Nakano, Xuehua Yang, Wenhan Cu, Celine Vens	Pairwise and Attribute-Aware Decision Tree-Based Preference Elicitation for Cold-Start Recommendation
17	Elias Fernández Domingos, The Anh Han	Inertia and fear of lagging behind drive unsafe technological development in an idealised AI Race experiment
18	Patrick Van der Spiegel, Johan Loeckx	A Hierarchical Piecewise Approximation Framework for Pattern-Based Sequence Learning
19	Ivan Bozhanin	Beyond-Accuracy (Sparsed-) coVariance Neural Network Recommender Systems
20	Sam Vanspringel, Alexandra Cimpean	Investigating Fairness in Epidemic Control
21	Shalaleh Hillebrand, Arjen Hommersom, Jesse Heyninck, Natasha Alechina	Causal discovery on geospatial data: Investigating the impact of amenity proximity on residential property values
22	Alexander Cremer	A comparison of GRPO and PPO in Reinforcement Learning Environments
23	Renske Baten, Banu Buruk	A Study Examining Of How AI-Driven mHealth Applications Communicate Ethical Responsibilities To Patients
24	Megi Dragoti, Eliza Hobo, Maaike H.T. De Boer	Unveiling Gender Bias: Transformer Models and Explainability Techniques in Dutch Job Ad Analysis
25	Luis Dierick, Benoit Frenay	Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Inpatient Length of Stay at CNRFR – Rehazenter Rehabilitation Center
26	Bianca Ciobanica, Serge Bibauw, Anaïs Tack	Automatic Evaluation of the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Open-Domain Chatbots in a Language-Learning Game
27	Dieko De Graaf, Maria Galanty, Hoel Kervadec, Clara I. Sánchez	Self-Supervised Learning for Automated ECG Signal Quality Assessment
28	Jimmy Mulder, Toon Renssen, Roelant Ossewaarde, Sietske Tacoma, Henry Maathuis, Yolande Pijnenburg	Difficulty-Aware Diagnosis: A Two-Step Approach to Classification of Heterogeneous Datasets
29	Syed Ihtesham Hussain Shah, Annette Ten Teije, josé Volders	Can we Trust Explanation! Evaluation of Model-agnostic explanation techniques
30	Nikitas Savvides, Pietro Bonizzi, Christian Herff, Anirudh Wodeyar	Real-time Navigational Intent Detection from Hippocampal EEG: A Proof of Concept
31	Udesh Habaraduwa, Marijn van Wingerden, Julia Pottkämper	Bring Your Own Labels : Graph-Based Self-Supervised Learning for EEG in Computational Psychiatry
32	Erbol Esengulov, Filip Ilievski	Semantic Search in Olympiad Math Problems
33	Vlad Morar, Filip Ilievski	"Where is AI being written?" – A geographic and epistemic meta-analysis of scientific literature
34	Shantanu Motiani, Maarten C. Stol	CrackGNN: Revealing a Crack Severity Manifold
35	Loïc Cordeiro Fonseca, Yannick Molinghen, Tom Lenaerts	Explaining cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning
36	V. Kodderitzsch, J. Burger, A. van Delden, J. D. Karch	Landmark and Compare: Addressing the Algorithm Selection Problem via Problem Space Similarity
37	Andrey Nikolov, Muhammad Shoaib Sarwar, Faizan Ahmed	Feature-level Fusion of 2D Images and 3D LiDAR Point Clouds for Semantic Segmentation
38	Daniël Wilten, Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Arjen Hommersom, Paul Lucassen, Emiel Poortman	Effective Diversification of Multi-Carousel Book Recommendation
39	Ward Janssens, Adam Arany, Hannah Rosa Friesacher	Active learning using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
40	Angela Petkova, Farnaz Faramarzi Lighvan, Lynn Houthuys	Gender and Ethnicity Bias Mitigation in Automatic Recruitment
41	Senne Deproost, Denis Steckelmacher, Ann Nowe	Explainable RL Policies by Distilling to Locally-Specialized Linear Policies with Voronoi State Partitioning
42	Sofia Gavasi, Nico Roos	Towards Explainable AI: Reasoning With Controlled Natural Language
43	Julien Baudru, Hugues Bersini	Modeling and Predicting Agent Trajectory in Urban Road Networks
44	Maria Cristina Hinojosa Lee, Johan Braet, Johan Springael	Performance Metrics for Multilabel Emotion Classification: Comparing Micro, Macro, and Weighted F1-Scores
45	Pietro Picchione, Robin Ghyselinck, Benoit Frenay, Bruno Dumas	Enhancing Lungs Tumor Detection with Generative Models
46	Warre Hofmans, Wei Wei, Simon Vanneste, Kevin Mets	Towards Efficient GNN-Based Phishing Detection from HTML Source Code

EurAI Session: Thursday 11h00 - 12h30

Time	Speaker	Title
11h00 - 11h10	BNVKI president	Introduction
11h10 - 11h30	Davide Bacciu	The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA)
11h30 - 11h50	Chiara Plizzari	AIxIA PhD dissertation award winner 2024
11h50 - 12h10	Emile van Krieken	BNVKI PhD dissertation award winner 2024
12h10 - 12h30	Simon Vandevelde	BNVKI PhD dissertation award runner-up 2024

Demonstrations: Wednesday 17h30 - 19h30

Authors	Title
Martin Colot, Cédric Simar, Ana Maria Cebolla Alvarez, Gianluca Bontempi	Demonstration of Cross-Subject Hand Gesture Recognition from EMG

Time/location	Hall PA02¹	PA02¹	Academic room²	Room I31²	Room I32²	Room I33²
12h00 - ...	Welcome & Registration Opens
12h30 - 13h30	Lunch
13h30 - 14h00		Opening
14h00 - 15h00		Keynote 1: Anna Rogers
15h00 - 15h30	Coffee Break
15h30 - 16h15			Women in AI Networking Session
16h20 - 17h20				AI and Health Deep Learning	Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Game Theory	Trustworthy AI
17h30 - 18h30	Demo Session & Poster Session
18h30 - 19h30	Welcome Reception + Continuation Poster and Demo Sessions

Time/location	Hall PA02¹	PA02¹	Room I31²	Room I32²	Room I33²
8h30 - ...	Registration Opens
9h00 - 10h20			AI and Health	Computer Vision	Deep Learning
10h30 - 11h00	Coffee Break
11h00 - 12h30		EurAI Session (Italian Delegation AIxIA) + Dissertation Prize
12h30 - 14h00	Lunch	BNVKI General Assembly (13h00 - 14h00)
14h00 - 15h30		IMPACT Session 1: François Roucoux & Jérôme Fink (14h00 - 15h45)	Reinforcement Learning	Trustworthy AI & NLP	AI and Society
15h30 - 16h00	Coffee Break
16h00 - 17h00		IMPACT Session 2: Arnaud Bougaham (16h30 - 17h00)	Reinforcement Learning	Time Series and Optimization
17h00 - 18h00		FACt Talks (BNVKI)
18h30 - 20h00	Sightseeing Event
20h00 - ...	Conference Dinner at Brasserie François

Time/location	Hall PA02¹	PA02¹	Room I31²	Room I32²	Room I33²
8h30 - ...	Registration Opens
9h00 - 10h00		Keynote 2: Decebal Mocanu
10h00 - 10h30	Coffee Break
10h40 - 11h40			Reinforcement Learning	Grounded AI	Natural Language Processing
12h00 - 12h45		BNVKI Award Ceremony and Closing

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Program Overview

Session Overview

Session 1: Wednesday 16h20 - 17h20

Session 2: Thursday 9h00 - 10h20

Session 3: Thursday 14h00 - 15h20

Session 4: Thursday 16h00 - 17h00

Session 5: Friday 10h40 - 11h40

Poster Presentations: Wednesday 17h30 - 19h30

EurAI Session: Thursday 11h00 - 12h30

Demonstrations: Wednesday 17h30 - 19h30