| Date | Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, Jan 15, 2020 | Introduction |
slides
(pdf version) A relevant WSJ article |
| Mon, Jan 20, 2020 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Observed (no classes) | |
| Wed, Jan 22, 2020 | Introduction |
slides
(pdf version) |
| Mon, Jan 27, 2020 | Introduction |
slides
(pdf version) |
| Wed, Jan 29, 2020 | Introduction |
slides
(pdf version) |
| Mon, Feb 3, 2020 | ||
| Wed, Feb 5, 2020 |
The Art and Science of Cause and Effect (Paper)
Sihao Chen (Slides) Some Philosophical Problems From The Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence (Paper) Xiaodong Yu (Slides) |
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| Mon, Feb 10, 2020 | No Class - Dan away | |
| Wed, Feb 12, 2020 | No Class - Dan away | |
| Mon, Feb 17, 2020 |
Learning in Order to Reason: The Approach (Paper)
Aditya Kashyap (Slides) Intelligence without representation (Paper) Arun Kirubarajan (Slides) |
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| Wed, Feb 19, 2020 |
Learning to Compose Neural Networks for Question Answering (Paper)
Kaifu Wang (Slides) Global Reasoning over Database Structures for Text-to-SQL Parsing (Paper) George Tolkachev (Slides) |
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| Fri, Feb 21, 2020 | Drop Deadline | |
| Mon, Feb 24, 2020 |
Compositional Attention Networks for Machine Reasoning (Paper)
Weiyu Du (Slides) Ask Me Anything: Dynamic Memory Networks for Natural Language Processing (Paper) Yijie Zhao (Slides) |
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| Wed, Feb 26, 2020 | No Class | |
| Mon, Mar 2, 2020 |
A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in Natural Language Tasks (Paper)
Aditya Kashyap (Slides) Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision (Paper) Qiao Han (Slides) |
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| Wed, Mar 4, 2020 |
Joint Reasoning for Temporal and Causal Relations (Paper)
Haoyu Wang (Slides) Question Answering as Global Reasoning over Semantic Abstractions (Paper) Xiaodong Yu (Slides) |
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| Mon, Mar 9, 2020 | No Lecture - Spring Break | |
| Wed, Mar 11, 2020 | No Lecture - Spring Break | |
| Mon, Mar 16, 2020 | No Lecture - Spring Break | |
| Wed, Mar 18, 2020 | No Lecture - Spring Break | |
| Mon, Mar 23, 2020 |
Representing Meaning with a Combination of Logical and Distributional Models (Paper)
Michal Porubcin (Slides) Structured Learning with Constrained Conditional Models (Paper) Sihao Chen (Slides) |
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| Wed, Mar 25, 2020 |
Logical Rule Induction and Theory Learning Using Neural Theorem Proving (Paper)
Kaifu Wang (Slides) A Semantic Loss Function for Deep Learning with Symbolic Knowledge (Paper) Qiao Han (Slides) |
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| Mon, Mar 30, 2020 | Project 1 Presentation | |
| Wed, Apr 1, 2020 |
The Winograd Schema Challenge (Paper)
Harry Zhang (Slides) Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks (Paper) Arun Kirubarajan (Slides) |
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| Fri, Apr 3, 2020 | Withdrawn Deadline | |
| Mon, Apr 6, 2020 |
What Can Neural Networks Reason About? (Paper)
Anushree Hede (Slides) Measuring abstract reasoning in neural networks (Paper) Xinran Han (Slides) |
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| Wed, Apr 8, 2020 |
Harnessing Deep Neural Networks with Logic Rules (Paper)
Weiyu Du (Slides) Combining Natural Logic and Shallow Reasoning for Question Answering (Paper) Saket Karve (Slides) |
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| Mon, Apr 13, 2020 | Final Project Milestone Presentation |
(Tentative) Question Answering via Integer Programming over Semi-Structured Knowledge (Paper)
Haoyu Wang (Slides) Discussants: Leon, Aditya |
| Wed, Apr 15, 2020 |
Multi-hop Reading Comprehension through Question Decomposition and Rescoring (Paper)
George Tolkachev (Slides) Discussants: Leon, Saket Exploring Markov Logic Networks for Question Answering (Paper) Liyang Zhou (Slides) Discussants: George, Haoyu, Michal |
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| Mon, Apr 20, 2020 |
What’s Missing: A Knowledge Gap Guided Approach for Multi-hop Question Answering (Paper)
Krunal Shah (Slides) Discussants: Saket, Aditya Graph-Based Reasoning over Heterogeneous External Knowledge for Commonsense Question Answering (Paper) Anushree Hede (Slides) Discussants: Xinran, Aditya Differentiable Reasoing Over a Virtual Knowledge Base (Paper) Michal Porubcin Discussants: Leon, Weiyu (Slides) |
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| Wed, Apr 22, 2020 |
Mapping to Declarative Knowledge for Word Problem Solving (Paper)
Yijie Zhao Discussants: Arun, George, Harry Giving BERT a Calculator: Finding Operations and Arguments with Reading Comprehension (Paper) Krunal Shah Discussants: Arun, Xinran, Harry Analysing Mathematical Reasoning Abilities of Neural Models (Paper) Xinran Han Discussants: Kaifu, Aditya, Harry |
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| Mon, Apr 27, 2020 |
Joint Concept Learning and Semantic Parsing from Natural Language Explanations (Paper)
Saket Karve Discussants: Kaifu, Haoyu, Harry Extracting Commonsense Properties from Embeddings with Limited Human Guidance (Paper) Harry Zhang Discussants: Arun, Xinran A Joint Model for Extended Semantic Role Labeling (Paper) Liyang Zhou |
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| Wed, Apr 29, 2020 | Final Project Presentation |