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Unleashing the Power of Absence and Surprise
Teaching AI the Power of Surprise Can a machine be surprised? We explore how artificial intelligence can learn not just from data, but from the unexpected . Our method, Learning via Surprisability (LvS) , teaches AI systems to form expectations and adjust when reality diverges, just as humans do. 🎥 Watch my short talk — Teaching AI the Power of Surprise By learning from surprise, AI becomes more efficient, adaptable, and explainable.We’ve applied LvS to social media, politic


Interpretable Transformation and Analysis of Timelines through Learning via Surprisability (LvS)
Ever had that feeling when something just seems off, even if you can’t quite explain why? 🤔 Maybe it is a sudden dip in your fitness...


Dr. Osnat Mokryn will give a talk at TAU's Cyber Week on June 26, 2023
Talk title: Decoding the Hidden Knowledge: using Information Theory for online impersonation detection Registration:...
Accepted conferences talks - CCS 2021 and CNA 2021
We presented our papers on Latent Personal Analysis ( UMUAI ) and Elicited Emotions ( IR ) at the Cognition Session at the Conference on...


Latent Personal Analysis (LPA) just been published with SpringerNature in UMUAI Journal
Glad to share a new paper in User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal (UMUAI) with Hagit Ben-Shoshan describing an exploration...


Congratulations to Uri Alon on the publication in Frontiers on Immunology!
Applying Latent Personal Analysis to B-cells enables a better understanding of the immune system. Alon, U., Mokryn, O., & Hershberg, U....
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