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<Title>CSEE faculty Gaur and Raff organize 2024 KDD KIL workshop</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2024/03/KDD24-banner-scaled-1.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div>CSEE assistant professor <a href="https://manasgaur.github.io/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Manas Gaur</strong></a> and CSEE adjunct professor <a href="https://www.edwardraff.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Ed Raff</strong></a> are two of the organizers of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge-Infused Learning, which will be held in conjunction with the ACM <a href="https://kdd2024.kdd.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining</strong></a> in Barcelona in August 2024.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9841416" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Knowledge-infused learning </strong></a>(KIL) is a class of AI techniques that enhance machine learning models by integrating structured external knowledge, such as facts, rules, and relationships from various sources. The method aims to improve a model's ability to understand complex concepts, generalize from limited data, and provide interpretable decisions. By combining the pattern recognition capabilities of traditional data-driven models and <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">large language models</a></strong> (LLMs) with the reasoning power of knowledge-based systems, KiL seeks to create more robust, capable, and understandable AI systems, with applications including natural language processing, robotics, and healthcare applications.<br><div><br></div><div>The theme of of the 2024 KIL workshop is on developing and using metrics, methods, and datasets for consistent, reliable, explainable and safe LLMs.</div><div><br></div><div>Professor Gaur was also an organizer of the three previous KIL workshops, held at KDD in <a href="https://aiisc.ai/kiml2023" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">2023</a>, the knowledge Graph conference in 2<a href="https://aiisc.ai/KiL2021/i" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">021,</a> and at KDD <a href="https://aiisc.ai/KiML2020/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">2020</a>.</div></div></div>
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<Summary>CSEE assistant professor Manas Gaur and CSEE adjunct professor Ed Raff are two of the organizers of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge-Infused Learning, which will be held in conjunction with the...</Summary>
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