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May 26, 2025 My dissertation ‘Optimisation in Neurosymbolic Learning Systems’ has won the first BNVKI Dissertation Award!
May 20, 2025 Happy to share my new paper on “Neurosymbolic Diffusion Models”, my main project during my Postdoc in Edinburgh.
May 16, 2025 Glad to share some papers I collaborated on with the Edinburgh NLP group. MMLU-Redux (NAACL 2025) fixes errors in the popular MMLU dataset. Mixtures of In-Context Learners (ACL 2025) uses mixtures of experts to improve in-context learning. And we explored learning Tool-Use with RL (NAACL Findings 2025).
Nov 21, 2024 I am a Program Chair of the NeSy 2025 conference in Santa Cruz, USA from 8-10 September 2025.
Nov 10, 2024 Our paper “A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark Suite for Concept Quality and Reasoning Shortcuts” is accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
Sep 09, 2024 Our paper on ULLER, a general-purpose NeSy language, is accepted as a spotlight oral presentation at NeSy 2024. In addition, I’m presenting my ICML paper as a spotlight oral, and we are giving a tutorial on ULLER on Thursday the 12th of September.
Jun 27, 2024 I am giving a keynote talk at the Differentiable Almost Everything ICML 2024 workshop.
May 02, 2024 Our paper “On the Independence Assumption in Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Learning” is accepted at ICML 2024.
Apr 26, 2024 Our paper “BEARS Make Neuro-Symbolic Models Aware of their Reasoning Shortcuts” is accepted at UAI 2024 as a spotlight paper.
Jan 15, 2024 I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Vrije Universiteit with Cum Laude distinction (top 5%).