Jaron Maene

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Hey there, I'm Jaron, a PhD candidate supervised by Luc De Raedt at the DTAI research group. I do research in the intersection of probabilistic reasoning and deep learning (neurosymbolic AI). Previously, I worked at a medical AI startup.

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News

[Jun 24] "Extracting Finite State Machines from Transformers" was accepted at the Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability at ICML2024 [paper].
[May 24] "On the Hardness of Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Learning" was accepted at ICML2024 [paper][video][code].
[Feb 24] Attended the AI winter school at Paderborn University.
[Dec 23] I presented my first paper at NeurIPS2023: "Soft-Unification in Deep Probabilistic Programming" [paper][video][code].
[Jan 23] Attended the DeepLearn 2023 Winter school.
[Dec 20] I received a prize from IBM at the NLC2CMD competition at NeurIPS2020, for my work on program synthesis with LLMs during a research internship at Bell Labs.

Talks

[Jul 24] Invited seminar at the TU Wien Institute of Logic and Computation.
[May 24] "Soft-Unification in Deep Probabilistic Logic", talk at the Generative NeSy Workshop.
[May 24] "Neurosymbolic Learning, a Probabilistic Journey", introductory seminar on probabilistic neurosymbolic learning at DTAI [slides].
[Mar 24] "AI and your Research", Invited talk (non-technical) at the LC&Y institute on the use of AI in research [video].
[Nov 23] Presented at the Flanders AI research day 2023.

Master Students

[23/24] Rik Adriaensen. "Extracting Finite State Machines from Transformers"

Blog


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- Albert Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe

Last updated: August, 2024.