XAI
MT4XAI Project Workshop
The ‘Machine Teaching for Explainable AI’ (MT4XAI) Project Workshop took place at Caixa Forum in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during the days of 9th to 11th of January 2025. The workshop featured talks from invited speakers, as well as other short presentations, and discussion sessions. Around 20 participants attended the workshop, including project members from UiB, VRAIN, Equinor and Eviny.
Featured talks
The workshop was pleased to feature presentations by the following speakers.
Talks featured on Thursday January 9th:
- Jan Arne Telle (University of Bergen): Overview of Machine Teaching for XAI
- Dario Garigliotti (University of Bergen): RAG in the Structured-unstructured Data Spectrum
- Brigt Arve T. Håvardstun (University of Bergen): XAI and Time Series Classifiers
- Kristian Flikka and Paul Skeie (Eviny AS): Predicting Electrical Vehicle Charging Loads for Effective Peak Modulation
- William Wale and Marius Binner (University of Bergen): How Claude Became Obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge
- Bjarte Johansen and Jakob Vigerust Kallestad (Equinor ASA): On RAG Work and its Use at Equinor
Talks featured on Friday January 10th:
- Carlos Monserrat (TU Valencia): From Evaluators to Assessors of Small Language Models
- Behzad Mehrbakhsh (TU Valencia): Confounders in Instance Variation for the Analysis of Data Contamination
- Diogo N. Freitas (University of Madeira): Toward Proactive Policy Design
- Jan Arne Telle (University of Bergen): XAI under the lens of Causality
- Felix Marti (TU Valencia): An Application for the Detection of Microfibres in Wastewater Sludge based on CNNs
- Pal Drange (University of Bergen): Algorithms for Sparse Data with an Application to Explainable Cold Start Recommendation
- Jose Hernandez-Orallo (TU Valencia / U. Cambridge): On CoT (o1/o3) and Explanations
Full list of participants
- Behzad Mehrbakhsh (TU Valencia)
- Bjarte Johansen (Equinor ASA)
- Brigt Arve T. Håvardstun (University of Bergen)
- Carlos Monserrat (TU Valencia)
- César Ferri (TU Valencia)
- Dario Garigliotti (University of Bergen)
- Diogo Nuno Freitas (University of Madeira)
- Felix Marti (TU Valencia)
- Jakob Vigerust Kallestad (Equinor ASA)
- Jan Arne Telle (University of Bergen)
- Jose Hernandez-Orallo (TU Valencia / U. Cambridge)
- Kristian Flikka (Eviny AS)
- Marius Binner (University of Bergen)
- Pal Drange (University of Bergen)
- Paul Skeie (Eviny AS)
- Sebastian E. Salas Røkholt (University of Bergen)
- William Wale (University of Bergen)
“Machine Teaching for Explainable AI” is a joint project between the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, the Valencian Research Institute for AI (VRAIN) and industrial partners Equinor and Eviny. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council.
