Schedule#

Week 1: Basics#

Lectures
Practical Session
Coffee/Dinner
TimeMon, Sep 22Tue, Sep 23Wed, Sep 24Thu, Sep 25Fri, Sep 26
16:30  
To be announced (Nathaniel Daw)
17:00 
SweetPea (Younes Strittmatter)
Automated Experiment Sampling (Younes Strittmatter)
17:30  
Coffee
18:00  
PsyNeuLink (Younes Strittmatter)
SweetBean (Younes Strittmatter)
18:30     
19:00 
Dinner
19:30     
20:00 
Introduction to AutoRA (Younes Strittmatter)
20:30     

Week 2: Model Discovery and LLMs#

TimeMon, Sep 29Tue, Sep 30Wed, Oct 1Thu, Oct 2Fri, Oct 3
16:30  
17:00
Generating computational cognitive models using LLMs (Milena Rmus, Akshay Kumar Jagadish)
  
17:30 
Coffee
 
18:00 
 
18:30  
19:00
Dinner
19:30     
20:00
Dynamical System Discovery with SINDy (Lukas Stelz & Se-Eun Choi)
Cognitive Model Discovery with SPICE (Daniel Weinhardt & Muhip Teczan)
Computational Cognitive Models using LLMs (Milena Rmus & Akshay Kumar Jagadish)
LLMs as Synthetic Participants (Younes Strittmatter)
 
20:30     

Sebastian Musslick : Introduction to Automated Scientific Discovery#

Readings:

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Nathaniel Daw : To be announced#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Matthew Flatt : Automated Experimental Design With SweetPea#

Abstract: Short abstract here


Marina Dubova : Against theory-motivated experimentation in science#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Younes Strittmatter : Automated Experiment Sampling#

Slides: PowerPoint

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Tom Griffiths : Integrative Experimental Design#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Nathan Kutz : Sparse Identification of Non-Linear Dynamics#

Abstract: Sensing is a universal task in science and engineering. Downstream tasks from sensing include learning dynamical models, inferring full state estimates of a system (system identification), control decisions, and forecasting. These tasks are exceptionally challenging to achieve with limited sensors, noisy measurements, and corrupt or missing data. Existing techniques typically use current (static) sensor measurements to perform such tasks and require principled sensor placement or an abundance of randomly placed sensors. In contrast, we propose a SHallow REcurrent Decoder (SHRED) neural network structure which incorporates (i) a recurrent neural network (LSTM) to learn a latent representation of the temporal dynamics through sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics, and (ii) a shallow decoder that learns a mapping between this latent representation and the high-dimensional state space. By explicitly accounting for the time-history, or trajectory, of the sensor measurements, SHRED enables accurate reconstructions with far fewer sensors, learns parsimonious dynamical models, outperforms existing techniques when more measurements are available, and is agnostic towards sensor placement. In addition, a compressed representation of the high-dimensional state is directly obtained from sensor measurements, which provides an on-the-fly compression for modeling physical and engineering systems. Forecasting is also achieved from the sensor time-series data alone, producing an efficient paradigm for predicting temporal evolution with an exceptionally limited number of sensors. In the example cases explored, including turbulent flows, complex spatio-temporal dynamics can be characterized with exceedingly limited sensors that can be randomly placed with minimal loss of performance.


Marcello Mattar : Knowledge Distillation with Tiny-RNNs#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Kevin Miller : Cognitive model discovery via disentangled RNNs#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Kyle LaFollette : Equation Discovery in Reinforcement Learning#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Daniel Weinhardt : Sparse Identification of Cognitive Equations#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Kevin Miller : Discovering symbolic cognitive models from behavior#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Milena Rmus, Akshay Kumar Jagadish · Milena Rmus, Akshay Kumar Jagadish : Generating computational cognitive models using LLMs#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Victoria Bosch : CorText: From visually evoked brain responses to text captions#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Marcel Binz : Centaur: A foundation Model of Cognition#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Peter Clark : Multi-Agent LLMs for Scientific Discovery#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Martyna Plomecka : LLMs for Automated Datascience#

Abstract: Short abstract here.


Lukas Stelz & Se-Eun Choi · Lukas Stelz & Se-Eun Choi : Dynamical System Discovery with SINDy#


Daniel Weinhardt & Muhip Teczan · Daniel Weinhardt & Muhip Teczan : Cognitive Model Discovery with SPICE#


Milena Rmus & Akshay Kumar Jagadish · Milena Rmus & Akshay Kumar Jagadish : Computational Cognitive Models using LLMs#


Younes Strittmatter : LLMs as Synthetic Participants#