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If you missed it: IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Daily Recaps: 2026.ijcai.org/press/#:~:te... #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 #Bremen #KI #AI

#IJCAI2026 - conference in #Bremen is over, but many interesting reports on the event, like the one from #GI... also covering #noerdman in "Local Tech Humor Meets IJCAI-ECAI 2026" gi.de/meldung/ijca... @ijcai.org @unibremen.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @informatik.eurosky.social

#Press And that was IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen! Thank you for being such a wonderful host. See you next year in Kyoto! 🇯🇵 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 idw-online.de/de/news876380

#IJCAI2026 - last day of #IJCAI in #Bremen - meet our experts in the exhibition hall 2026.ijcai.org @unibremen.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @dsc-ub.bsky.social @ijcai.org #SummerOfAI

#ECS Aryan Deshwal, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, delivering their talk at the Early Career Spotlight Session: Adaptive Experimental Design to Accelerate Scientific Discovery and Engineering Design: https://lnkd.in/dGbSfPJ6 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Keynote Where are we still struggling? Jan Peters, TU Darmstadt / DFKI, addressed a long-standing vision across AI, robotics, and cognitive science: autonomous robots capable of assisting humans in daily life. Daily recap: https://ow.ly/jxQg50ZCMQA #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Keynote Georgina Curto, UN University Institute in Macau, shared updates on the ‘IJCAI in the World’ initiative, highlighting three years of locally driven AI initiatives including organizations such as the Deep Learning Indaba. https://ow.ly/aJP050ZCMG6 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Closing Friday marked the final day of IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen. A fitting finale to an unforgettable week. More in the daily recap: https://lnkd.in/djenK-iR Thank you to everyone who made it special. See you in Kyoto in 2027! 🇯🇵 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#PeopleOfIJCAI Thomas Eiter, TU Wien, #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 ECS committee chair, looks back on his first IJCAI in Chambéry in 1993, & the presentation that introduced abstract argumentation frameworks by Phan Minh Dung: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370221002009

Big thanks to Torbjörn Nordling, National Cheng Kung University, and all our amazing session chairs, for keeping the sessions running smoothly and guiding the discussions. #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#ReinforcementLearning Prashant Doshi, The University of Georgia, delivered their talk 'Inversely Learning Transferable Rewards via Abstracted States', Yikang Gui, Prashant Doshi: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/3349.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Meet the Next Generation in AI Research, some of the early-career researchers shaping the future of artificial intelligence across Germany as they present their work in just 90 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbDopksEwW0&list=PLTWM--M_L8RU #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#EvolutionaryComputation Presented 'Speeding Up the NSGA-II via Dynamic Population Sizes', by Benjamin Doerr, Martin S. Krejca, Simon Wietheger: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/5841.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Markus Wenzel, Fraunhofer MEVIS / Constructor University, chairing Biomedical Image Analysis session. Big thank you to our fantastic session chairs! 🌟 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 would not have been possible without your hard work and selfless service to the AI community.

#keynote His work paves the way for AI that doesn’t just look at pictures, but truly understands and interacts with the physical world. IJCAI 2026 Computers and Thought Award winner Jiajun Wu, Stanford University: https://ow.ly/MWB650ZCjLL #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Keynote Despite popular belief that AI has mastered “seeing,” Tinne Tuytelaars, KU Leuven, argued that teaching computers to truly understand images remains far from solved. Read more in the #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 daily recap: https://ow.ly/rybo50ZCjGF

Thursday, marked the penultimate day of IJCAI-ECAI 2026, & the day of the Student Reception. Connecting and sharing ideas across scientific & national borders is a driving force behind innovation. This is IJCAI. More in #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 daily recap: https://ow.ly/5RsY50ZCjEz

A big thank you to Zhaokai Li, University of Science and Technology China, and all our fantastic session chairs! 🌟 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 would not have been possible without your hard work and selfless service to the AI community. We truly appreciate everything you do!

#Demo Conor Fallon, Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT), demonstrating Sparse ProtoPatient: Interactive Multi-Prototype Explanations for Clinical Diagnosis Prediction. https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/DM33.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#AI4Good This was HighFM: Towards a Foundation Model for Learning Representations from High-Frequency Earth Observation Data. https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/AI4G101.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Demo Katelyn Morrison, Carnegie Mellon University / Microsoft, demonstrating Wavelength.AI: Extending the Collaborative Game Wavelength as a Testbed for Studying Shared Understanding in Human–Agent Collaboration: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/DM33.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Malte Huerkamp, is representing AICO Solutions, a one-year-old company specializing in robot programming for flexible object handling. Their technology enables robots to make real-time decisions and independently adapt programs to changing situations. #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Wenn Maschinen lernen – tausende KI-Forscher in Bremen www.welt.de/regionales/n... #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 #AI #Bremen #ArtificialIntelligence @ijcai.org

For the next few days, it’s all about AI in Bremen: IJCAI-ECAI 2026 is in full swing – and the GI is there with its own booth. Daily recaps and highlights are available in the Daily Report 👉️ gi.de/meldung/ijca... #IJCAI2026 #AI @ijcai.org @unibremen.bsky.social Photos: Meggie Jaworski

#IJCAI2026 - IJCAI-ECAI Diversity and Inclusion Lunch at the Bremen Townhall 2026.ijcai.org/wp-content/f... @ijcai.org #IJCAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bremen @unibremen.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social

pretty cool seeing some robots and their future terrain at the @dfki.bsky.social robotics center during @ijcai.org in Bremen!

Congratulations to the conference Distinguished Papers Winners👏✨ 🎓StreamTimer: Efficient Inference for Long-Context Time Series Transformers, by Xiyu Meng, Yuhan Wu, Canran Xiao, Yabo Dong, Duanqing Xu: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/2468.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Congratulations to the conference Distinguished Papers Winners👏✨ 🎓Tuple Inconsistency Measures: Toward Explaining Query Answers, by Yurun Gu, Badran Raddaoui, Yue Ma, Aikaterini Tzompanaki, Nicole Bidoit: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/7822.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Congratulations to the conference Distinguished Papers Winners👏✨ 🎓Approximate Strategyproofness in Approval-Based Budget Division by Haris Aziz, Patrick Lederer, Jeremy Vollen: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/2596.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#NaturalLanguageProcessing #6131 Performance-Driven Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning by Wenqiang Wang, Mingbo Yang, Aiping Zhang, Yan Xiao, Peng Chen, Jianjie Huang, Xiaochun Cao: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/6131.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#7512 'Beyond Sequences: A Dynamic Hierarchical Heterogeneous Spatio-Temporal Graph for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting' by Xiaowei Yan, Zhuo Li, Junjie Zhang, Bing Li, Jun Yan, Buzhou Tang: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/7512.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#PeopleOfIJCAI A huge thank you to the incredible IJCAI-ECAI 2026 volunteer chairs, whose dedication, patience, and countless hours of hard work have helped make this conference run as smoothly as possible. Lena Wollschläger, UBRA / Caroline v. Dresky, Universität zu Lübeck. #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#EUAIAct #recap of our EU AI Act session with Jeroen Delfos, European Commission. Among other topics, about practical deployment of AI in higher education and academic settings. 🧐 https://ow.ly/gJzB50ZBHTu #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Science journalist Bennie Mols is back on the ground at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, returning after his 1st IJCAI back in 2018 in Stockholm. Get ready for his upcoming interviews with Barbara Plank, & David Parkes. The full conversations are dropping soon in the ACM. #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#PeopleOfIJCAI Luciano Serafini, FBK, first attended IJCAI in 1989 in Detroit & has been a regular participant ever since, appreciating how the conference brings together diverse AI communities: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370221002009 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Keynote Read more about the invited talk “The Myth of Ground Truth: What Human Disagreement Teaches Us About AI,” Barbara Plank, LMU Munich, in the #recap of the day: https://2026.ijcai.org/press/#:~:text=the%20media%20brief.-,Daily%20Recap,-15%2D16%20August #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Awards IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Programme Chair Diego Calvanese presented the 2026 Distinguished Paper Award to Yurun Gu, honoring the paper "Tuple Inconsistency Measures: Toward Explaining Query Answers": https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/7822.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Keynote A call to the community: Abstraction is the driving force behind rapid progress in AI, but let us not forget about lower levels. Tinne Tuytelaars, KU Leuven on what constitutes a good visual representation #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Snapshot from the Early Career Spotlight Talks: - Thomy Phan (U. Bayreuth). https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/EC2.pdf - Zeynep G. Saribatur (TU Wien). https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/EC1.pdf Chair: Michael Thielscher (UNSW) #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#SurveyTrack #6175 - Subject-Agnostic Cross-View Referring Expression Comprehension via Reward-Driven Consistency Learning, authored by Liuwu Li, Ronger Ding, Zehang Lin, Qi Peng, Jiayuan Xie: https://ijcai-preprints.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2026/6175.pdf #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

🏆 Jaap Jumelet, UvA, was awarded the 2025 EurAI Dissertation Award for his outstanding PhD thesis "Finding Structure in Language Models" by the EurAI Board member and 2025 EurAI Disseration Award Chair Fredrik Heintz, https://eurai.org/award/Jaap-Jumelet #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#Keynote 2026 McCarthy Award winner David Parkes presented "From Intelligent Agents to Agent Societies" at #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026, exploring Multi-Agent AI before receiving his certificate from Bo An, Programme Chair #IJCAI2027

#Awards #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 Programme Chair Diego Calvanese presented the Distinguished Paper Award to Jeremy Vollen during his talk "Approximate Strategyproofness in Approval-based Budget Division", aut. by Haris Aziz, Patrick Lederer, Jeremy Vollen. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11736

#WS20: 3rd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms - #SCaLA 2026 was a great success. Many thanks to Nicholas Teh, Oxford Uni, for the invited talk. https://sites.google.com/view/scala26/home #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#WS22 This was the 9th Workshop on AI for Aging, Rehabilitation and Intelligent Assisted Living. #MAISON-LLF dataset (Version 4) is available, collected from 18 older adults living alone following a lower limb fracture: https://lnkd.in/dyHU8SKJ #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Snapshots from the exhibition hall! Stop by to connect with the exhibitors, discuss your next career move, or pick up some great swag! #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 Credits: Photography, Jimi Liu

The poster session is buzzing with energy. This is #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 Credits: Photography, Jimi Liu

Nick Jennings, he closed his invited talk with a message to the research community: Strong science depends on the interaction between theory and practice, is done in teams and requires persistence: https://ow.ly/ve2w50ZBqfy #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

#IndustryDay: T-Systems International, together with parent company Deutsche Telekom and partner NVIDIA, launched Europe’s first Industrial AI Cloud in February 2026: https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/launch-industrial-ai-cloud-with-nvidia-1098706 #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026

Mulang' Onando, SAP, IJCAI-ECAI 2026 sponsor, delivers a talk at the Industry Day, about their enterprise copilot, Joule. https://2026.ijcai.org/industry-day/ #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026