AAAI-20 / IAAI-20 / EAAI-20

Conference Program
New York Hilton Midtown
New York, New York
February 7–12, 2020

Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Thirty-Second Conference on
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Tenth Symposium on Educational
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Conference Highlights at a Glance

MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING

Friday, February 7
Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Student Welcome Reception
Workshops Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC
Undergraduate Consortium Undergraduate Consortium
AIES 2020 Conference AIES 2020 Conference AIES Opening Reception

Saturday, February 8
Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum AAAI Opening Reception
Workshops Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC
EAAI Award Lecture: desJardins EAAI Technical Program
AIES 2020 Conference AIES 2020 Conference

Sunday, February 9
AAAI / IAAI Welcome / AAAI Awards Lunch with a Fellow AAAI Turing Award Event
AAAI Presidential Address: Yolanda Gil Fellows Dinner
AAAI Classic Paper Award Talk: Junker Senior Member Talks Poster / DemoSession 1
EAAI Invited Talk: Shapiro/ IAAI Technical Program
Zimmermann-Niefield EAAI Technical Program
Exhibits Exhibits

Monday, February 10
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast Lunch with a Fellow IAAI RSE Award Lecture: Kautz
AAAI Invited Talk: Billard AAAI/IAAI Technical Program AAAI-20 Debate
IAAI Invited Talk: Cox Senior Member Talks Poster / Demo Session 2
Student Abstract Spotlights Sister Conference Track
Sister Conference Track Exhibits
Exhibits

Tuesday, February 11
AAAI Conference Awards Lunch with a Fellow AI History Panel
AAAI/IAAI Invited Talk: Song AAAI Invited Talk: Athey Poster / Demo Session 3
AAAI/IAAI Technical Program IAAI/IAAI Technical Program Games Night
Exhibits Exhibits / AI Job Fair

Wednesday, February 12
AAAI Invited Talk: Russell AAAI Technical Program AI in Practice Networking Event
AAAI Community Meeting AI in Practice
AI in Practice

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Contents
Sponsoring Organizations
AAAI Community Meeting / 5
Acknowledgments / 4 AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the
following organizations and individuals to AAAI-20:
AI History Panel / 7
AI in Practice / 12 Platinum Sponsors
AI Job Fair / 14, 17 IBM Research
AIES 2020 / 13 Sony
Awards / 3–8
Gold Sponsors
Childcare / 17
Amazon
Conference at a Glance / 2 AI Journal
Diversity and Inclusion / 6 Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd
Doctoral Consortium / 12 Bloomberg
Google AI
EAAI-20 Program / 13 Happy Elements
Exhibition / 14–17 Superb AI
Games Night / 14
Silver Sponsor
IAAI-20 Program / 13
Apple
Invited Talks / Panels / 9–11
Elsevier, Ltd
Poster / Demo Sessions / 7 Tongdun Technology
Registration / 17
Bronze Sponsors
Senior Member, Blue Sky Program / 12
Alegion
Social Events / 7
Dataminr
Special Meetings / 5 Facebook
Special Track: AI for Social Impact / 12 iMerit
Sponsors / 3 Jane Street
Microsoft
Student Abstracts / 13 NLMatics
Student Activities & Outreach / 11-14 Openstream
Talk Length Key / 18 TheTake.AI
Two Sigma
Technical Program Overview / 18–22
United Technologies Research Center
Turing Award Event / 10 USC/ISI
Tutorial Forum / 8 Verisk Analytics
Undergraduate Consortium / 13 Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Tsukuba
Visa Research
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 14
Workshop Program / 11 General Sponsors
ACM/SIGAI
Awards CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
David E. Smith
AAAI Special Awards and honors will be pre-
sented Sunday, February 9, 8:00 – 8:30 AM, in the
Grand Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the New York
Hilton Midtown Hotel. AAAI-20 Awards will be
presented on Tuesday, February 11, 8:00 – 8:30 ber of members who have made significant sus- Natasha Noy (Google, USA)
AM in the same location. tained contributions to the field of artificial intel- Martha Palmer (University of Colorado Boulder,
ligence, and who have attained unusual distinc- USA)
2020 AAAI Special Awards, Honors tion in the profession. AAAI is pleased to an- Dragomir Radev (Yale University, USA)
AAAI Honors and Special Awards will be pre- nounce the ten newly elected Fellows for 2020, Thomas Schiex (Institut National de Recherche
sented by Subbarao Kambhampati, Awards who will be honored during the annual Fellows pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environ-
Committee Chair and AAAI Past President, nement, France)
dinner on Sunday, February 9, 2020:
Yolanda Gil, AAAI President, and Bart Selman, Sylvie Thiébaux (The Australian National Universi-
Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal, Canada)
ty, Australia)
AAAI President-Elect. Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media Lab, USA)
William T. Freeman (Massachusetts Institute of
2020 AAAI Fellows Recognition Technology and Google Research, USA) 2020 Senior Member Recognition
Each year, the Association for the Advancement Yann LeCun (New York University, USA) AAAI is pleased to announce the newly elected
of Artificial Intelligence recognizes a small num- Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University, USA) 2020 AAAI senior members, who are being rec-

CONTENTS / SPONSORS / AWARDS 3

 Acknowledgements
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence acknowledges and thanks the following individuals for their generous contribu-
tions of time and energy to the successful creation and planning of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Thirty-
Second Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and the Tenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial In-
telligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-20 and IAAI-20 Program Committee members will appear on the conference website.)

AAAI Conference Committee Chair Presentation Chair

Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Eugene Freuder (University College Cork, Ireland)
AAAI-20 General Chair Student Abstract Cochairs
Francesca Rossi (IBM Research, USA) Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano | Polimi, Italy)
AAAI-20 Program Cochairs
Vincent Conitzer (Duke University, USA) Doctoral Consortium Cochairs
Fei Sha (Google Research and University of Southern California, USA) Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Shiwali Mohan (PARC, USA)
Workflow Chairs
Haoming Li (Duke University, USA) Undergraduate Consortium Cochairs
Yury Zemlyanskiy (University of Southern California, USA)  Jim Boerkoel (Harvey Mudd College, USA)
Mehmet Ergezer (Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA)
AAAI-20 Special Track on AI for Social Impact Cochairs
Fei Fang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Student Activities Cochairs
Eric Sodomka (Facebook Research, USA) Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Milind Tambe (Harvard University, USA) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Alberta, Canada)
William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA)
IAAI-20 Conference Chair and Cochair
Ruchir Puri (IBM Research, USA) K-12 Student Outreach Cochairs
Neil Yorke-Smith (TU Delft, Netherlands) Dave Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Christina Gardner-McCune (University of Florida, USA)
EAAI-20 Symposium Cochairs
Nate Derbinsky (Northeastern University, USA) AI in Practice Chair and Cochair
Lisa Torrey (St. Lawrence University, USA) Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, USA)
Ashish Jha (Harvard University, USA)
Senior Member Track Cochairs
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA) AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job Fair Cochairs
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA) John Dickerson (University of Maryland, USA)
Michael Albert (University of Virginia, USA)
Sister Conference Track Chair
Thomas Schiex (French National Institute Diversity and Inclusion Chair
for Agricultural Research, INRA, France) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
Demonstrations Cochairs Fundraising Cochairs
Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, USA) Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Kartik Talamadupula (IBM, USA) Pingzhong Tang (Tsinghua University, China)
Tutorial Forum Cochairs AI History Panel Chair
Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Amy Greenwald (Brown University, USA)
K. Brent Venable (IHMC and Tulane University, USA) 
AI Debate Chair
Workshop Program Cochairs Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China)
Biplav Srivastava (IBM, USA) Volunteer Coordinator
Victor Khaustov (The University of Aizu, Japan)

ognized for their long-term participation in Biplav Srivastava (IBM Research, USA) QUICKXPLAIN: Preferred Explanations and Relax-
AAAI and their distinction in the field of artificial ations for Over-Constrained Problems
Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management
Ulrich Junker
intelligence. University, Singapore) For developing an influential approach for formal-
Yigal Arens (USC Information Sciences Institute, Fusun Yaman (BBN Technologies, USA) izing and efficiently computing user-preferred fail-
USA) ure explanations in over-constrained problems.
Hankz Hankui Zhuo (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Wingyan Chung (University of Central Florida, USA) The Classic Paper Award Talk, by Ulrich Junker,
Yun Fu (Northeastern University, USA) will be held Sunday, February 9, at 9:30 AM in Re-
Kobi Gal (Ben-Gurion University Israel and Univer-
2020 AAAI Classic Paper Award
gent, 2nd floor.
sity of Edinburgh, UK) The 2020 AAAI Classic Paper award honors the
Nick Hawes (University of Oxford, UK) authors of the following paper deemed most in- 2020 Distinguished Service Award
Lane Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, USA) Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)
fluential from the Nineteenth National Confer-
Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technol- For significant contributions to the field of artificial
ogy (IIT) Madras, India) ence on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2004 in
intelligence through sustained service to the Asso-
Paolo Remagnino (Kingston University, UK) San Jose, California, USA. ciation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelli-

4 AWARDS / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

 gence and the furtherance of the field as a re-
searcher, mentor and NSF IIS director. Special Meetings
AAAI 2020 Special Posthumous AAAI Community Meeting / Annual Business Meeting
Distinguished Service Award
AAAI welcomes all conference attendees to the AAAI community meeting, which will also serve
Alan Schultz (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) as the AAAI Annual Business Meeting. Please join us as we explore current initiatives, and help
For significant contributions to the field of artificial chart the future course and objectives of AAAI. The meeting will be held Wednesday, February
intelligence through sustained service to the Asso- 12, 1:00 – 1:50 PM in the Grand Ballroom. Moderator: Yolanda Gil, AAAI President
ciation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelli-
gence and the furtherance of the field as an orga-
nizer, researcher, and mentor. AAAI Conference Committee Meeting
The AAAI Conference Committee Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 11, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
2020 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Lincoln, 4th floor.
Educator Award and Lecture
AAAI Executive Council Meeting
The AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award
The AAAI Executive Council Meeting will be held Saturday, February 8, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, New
was established to recognize a person (or group
York Room, 4th floor. Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 AM.
of people) who has (have) made major contribu-
tions to AI education that provide long-lasting AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner
benefits to the AI community. The 2020 award is
being presented to Marie desJardins (Simmons The AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner will be held Sunday, February 9, 7:30 – 10:00 PM, Herb N’
University, USA) for leading the AI community Kitchen Runway and PDR2, Lobby level.
in cultivating and recognizing advances in AI ed-
AAAI Publications Committee Meeting
ucation, sharing pedagogical advances, increas-
ing diversity, and improving K-12 CS teacher The AAAI Publications Committee Meeting will be held Monday, February 11, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
preparation. This award is jointly sponsored by Lincoln, 4th floor.
AAAI and the Symposium on Educational Ad-
vances in Artificial Intelligence. The lecture will
AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting
be held during EAAI-20 on Saturday, February 8, The AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting will be held Sunday, February 10, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Lin-
9:05 AM, in Bryant, 2nd floor. (See lecture de- coln, 4th floor.
scription on page 9.)
JAIR Business Meeting
2020 Robert S. Engelmore The JAIR Business Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 11, 1:15 – 2:00 PM, New York, 4th
Memorial Award and Lecture floor.
The Robert S. Engelmore Award is sponsored by
IAAI-20 and AI Magazine, and will be presented
Clarity: Data-Driven Automatic Assessment of Prod- Question Quality Improvement: Deep Question Un-
by Ruchir Puri and Neil Yorke-Smith, IAAI-20
uct Competitiveness derstanding for Incident Management in Technical
Cochairs, and Ashok Goel, editor-in-chief, AI Sheema Usmani, Mariana Bernagozzi, Yufeng Huang, Support Domain
Magazine. The award and lecture were estab- Michelle Morales, Amir Sabet Sarvestani, Biplav Sri- Anupama Ray, Csaba Hadhazi, Pooja Aggarwal, Gar-
lished in 2003 to honor Dr. Engelmore's extraor- vastava gi Dasgupta, Amit Paradkar
dinary service to AAAI, AI Magazine,, and the AI Day-Ahead Forecasting of Losses in the Distribution Understanding Chat Messages for Sticker Recom-
applications community, and his contributions Network mendation in Messaging Apps
Nisha Dalal, Martin Mølnå, Mette Herrem, Magne Abhishek Laddha, Mohamed Hanoosh, Debdoot
to applied AI. The 2020 award will be presented Mukherjee, Parth Patwa, Ankur Narang
Røen, Odd Erik Gundersen
to Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)
for outstanding research contributions in the Embedding Convolution Neural Network-Based De- AAAI-20 Awards
fect Finder for Deployed Vision Inspector in Manu-
area of knowledge representation, data analytics, The AAAI-20 Awards will be presented by Pro-
facturing Company Frontec
and data mining of social media for public good. Kyoung Jun Lee, Jun Woo Kwon, Soohong Min, gram Cochairs Vincent Conitzer and Fei Sha.
Jungho Yoon
IAAI-20 Deployed AAAI-20 Outstanding Paper Awards
FedVision: An Online Visual Object Detection Plat-
Applications Awards form Powered by Federated Learning
This year, AAAI's Conference on Artificial Intelli-
Yang Liu, Anbu Huang, Yun Luo, He Huang, Youzhi gence honors the following four papers, which ex-
The ten IAAI-20 Deployed Application Awards emplify high standards in technical contribution
Liu, Yuanyuan Chen, Lican Feng, Tianjian Chen, Han
will be announced during the Opening Ceremo- Yu, Qiang Yang and exposition by regular and student authors.
ny on Sunday, February 9 by IAAI-20 Cochairs
Feedback-Based Self-Learning in Large-Scale Conver- AAAI-20 Outstanding Paper Award
Ruchir Puri and Neil Yorke-Smith. Certificates sational AI Agents
will be presented during paper sessions. Pragaash Ponnusamy, Alireza Roshan Ghias, Chenlei WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema
Guo, Ruhi Sarikaya Challenge at Scale
Accelerating Ranking in E-Commerce Search Engines Keisuke Sakaguchi, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhaga-
through Contextual Factor Selection How Machine Learning Is Improving U.S. Navy Cus- vatula, Yejin Choi
Anxiang Zeng, Han Yu, Qing Da, Yusen Zan, Chun- tomer Support
yan Miao Michael Powell, Jamison A. Rotz, Kevin D. O'Malley AAAI-20 Outstanding Student Paper Award
Automated Conversation Review to Surface Virtual PIDS: An Intelligent Electric Power Management Fair Division of Mixed Divisible and Indivisible
Assistant Misunderstandings: Reducing Cost and In- Platform Goods
creasing Privacy Yongqing Zheng, Han Yu, Yuliang Shi, Kun Zhang, Xiaohui Bei, Zihao Li, Jinyan Liu, Shengxin Liu, Xin-
Ian Beaver, Abdullah Mueen Shuai Zhen, Lizhen Cui, Cyril Leung, Chunyan Miao hang Lu

AWARDS / SPECIAL MEETINGS 5

 Diversity and Inclusion Programs
Participation in AI by groups that are underrepresented in computer science is a fraction of what is needed to have an AI workforce that
reflects the diversity in society. Diversity has many facets, including races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, disabilities, sexual orienta-
tions, socioeconomic status, and cultural background. AAAI-20 will include several programs specifically designed to address this chal-
lenging issue. Please consult Guidebook for any additional programs.

Workshop on Diversity in AI: Undergraduate Workshop: DivinAI Hackfest: How Diverse are Top
Artificial Intelligence — Diversity, AI-Powered Robotics Artificial Intelligence Conferences?
Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion: Saturday, February 8: Hunter College. Monday, February 10
Mentoring Students from Underserved Sunday, February 9: American Museum of Concourse G, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Populations Natural History divinai.org/hackFestNY20
bit.do/AAAI20-Outreach Organizers: Ana Freire (Universitat Pompeu
Friday, February 7 Organizers David Touretzky (CMU), Roozbeh Fabra, Spain), Emilia Gómez (Joint Research
Concourse E, 2:00 – 5:00 PM Aliabadi (ReadyAI LLC), Anita Raja (Hunter Centre, European Commission)
diverseinai.org/workshops/aidbei/aaai2020 College)
twitter.com/DiverseInAI The AI field is suffering a crisis of diversity,
Organizer: William Hsu (Kansas Activity for undergraduates interested in AI meaning that several minorities are underrep-
State University) and intelligent robots. On Saturday, partici- resented in the development of AI systems.
pants will work in teams using Calypso and the This is particularly reflected in top AI confer-
Recognizing intrinsic links between students Cozmo robot to build demos or games that il- ences, where the lack of gender and cultural di-
from underserved populations, the frequent lustrate how artificial intelligence can improve versity is specially visible. This activity aims to
incidence among these students of intersec- our lives. Then, on Sunday, they will host a raise awareness on this issue by gathering data
tional identity, and a desire to help their com- free, open event where members of the public from top conferences and calculating their cor-
munities, this workshop will consist of presen- can experience their creations. Preregistration responding diversity index, in terms of gender,
tations and a panel discussion on mentoring required. geographical location and presence of
students from such populations — the chal-
academia versus industry.
lenges and opportunities. The primary objec- Black in AI Lunch
tive is to discuss work at the nexus of inclusive Sunday, February 9 Promoting Deaf Inclusion and
AI education, education research pertinent to Papillon Bistro Collaboration in Artificial Intelligence
AI and underrepresented groups of students, By invitation and preregistration only.
and AI for Good as applicable to underserved Tuesday, February 11
Chair: Krystal Maughan (University of Ver- Concourse G, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
students’ own communities, and to help share mont)
the word about efforts to serve such students. Organizers: Prajwal Paudyal, Ayan Banerjee,
Black in AI was formed as a space for sharing Soukaina Lamrani, and Sandeep Gupta (Ari-
AI — Its Purpose & Power. ideas, collaborating and discussing initiatives zona State University)
Humans — Our Purpose & Power to increase the presence of Black people in the An activity in which hearing participants of
field of Artificial Intelligence. AAAI attempt to communicate specific com-
Saturday, February 8
Nassau, 9:00 AM – 2:15 PM LatinX in AI Lunch puter science related topics to deaf participants
Organizer: Tara Chklovski (Technovation) using sign language. Hearing participants will
Monday, February 10
be given a set of sentences they have to com-
A hands-on workshop for those of us who are Papillon Bistro
municate to deaf participants. In order to learn
new to AI. Technovation, a global technology By preregistration only. For reservation infor-
the signs needed to communicate them, the ac-
education nonprofit and Cooper Union, will mation, please see www.latinxinai.org/events.
tivity will include several kiosks with an intel-
host an “Intro to AI” workshop for the broader Cochairs: Pablo Castro (Google),
ligent sign language tutor application called
public, and educators. The workshop will in- Laura Montoya (Accel.AI)
Learn2sign. After practicing the signs needed
troduce the basics of AI and how to identify
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast for communicating the sentences, the hearing
and address meaningful problems, aligned
Monday, February 10 participant will approach one deaf participant
with the UN SDGs, using AI-based technolo-
Beekman, 7:30 – 8:45 AM to practice their newly acquired American Sign
gies. The workshop will conclude with real-
Organizer: Maria Chang (IBM) Language skills and get feedback.
world insights and strategies from young
women who have used technology (mobile and The gender gap in computer science has been Mid-Career Diversity Tea and Cake
AI) to address SDGs in their communities. Pre- well-documented. One way to make our field Tuesday, February 11
registration required. more inclusive toward women is to increase New York, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
the visibility of mid- and advanced-career Organizers: Rosina Weber (Drexel University),
Try AI
women in our field. The Women’s Mentoring Karen Myers (SRI International Artificial In-
Saturday, February 8, Breakfast at AAAI-20 will give women stu- telligence Center)
City College of New York dents and early-career researchers the oppor-
sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/tryai The meeting will focus on issues pertinent to
tunity to meet women leaders in the field. Pre-
Organizers: Elizabeth Bondi (Harvard Univer- researchers at mid-career levels. It is targeted
registration required.
sity), Alexis Stokes (Harvard University), Isha to mid-career members of underrepresented
Puri (Harvard University), Anika Puri (Horace communities. Preregistration required.
Greeley High School)
This off-site activity is designed for high-
school female students.

Outstanding Paper Award, Outstanding Student Paper Award, Outstanding Paper Award: Special Track on
Honorable Mention: Honorable Mention: AI for Social Impact
A Unifying View on Individual Bounds and Heuristic Lifelong Learning with a Changing Action Set A Distributed Multi-Sensor Machine Learning Ap-
Inaccuracies in Bidirectional Search Yash Chandak, Georgios Theocharous, Chris Nota, proach to Earthquake Early Warning
Vidal Alcazar, Pat Riddle, Mike Barley Philip S. Thomas Kevin Fauvel, Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Diego Melgar,

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 AAAI-20 Social and Special Events

AAAI Opening Reception AI History Panel: Advancing AI by Playing Games

Saturday, February 8, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Tuesday, February 12, 4:45 – 6:15 PM
Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor
Moderator: Amy Greenwald (Brown University)
The AAAI-20 Opening Reception will be held in the Grand Ballroom of Panelists: Murray Campbell (IBM), Michael Bowling (University of Alberta),
the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. A variety of heavy hors d’oeuvres Hiroaki Kitano (Sony), David Silver (DeepMind and University College Lon-
and one complimentary beverage will be served. A no-host bar will also don), and Garry Kasparov (Russian Chess Grandmaster)
be available. Admittance to the reception is included in the AAAI-20 tech- Building AI to play games as well as human masters has been a goal of AI
nical registration. A $125.00 per person fee ($20.00 for children over the ever since Arthur Samuel’s seminal checkers program in 1959. Today’s
age of 12) will be charged for guests and other nontechnical conference game-playing programs have surpassed human performance in substan-
registrants. tially harder games, including backgammon, chess, poker, and Go. Still,
in multi-player games, especially those played by embodied agents such
AAAI-20 Poster / Demo Sessions as soccer, significant AI challenges remain. This panel will include repre-
Sunday, February 9, 7:30 – 9:30 PM sentatives of efforts to build machines that excel at playing these games,
Monday, February 10, 7:20 – 9:20 PM
Tuesday, February 11, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
discussing the main ingredients of the technology they developed, the
Americas Hall I/II challenges they encountered, and how the agenda of building expert
game-playing machines furthers progress on the real-world goals of AI.
Each AAAI-20 poster / demo session will include posters by authors of
main technical track papers, including all who are presenting poster spot-
AI Debate: Academic AI Research
lights as well as those who have made full oral presentations (if they elect-
ed to do so). Poster presentations are scheduled on the same evening as
in an Age of Industry Labs
the oral presentation or spotlight presentation, except for Wednesday Monday, February 11, 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor
oral presentations, which will be presented in poster format on Tuesday Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada)
evening. Sunday evening posters will also include International Science Debaters in this Oxford-style debate will include luminaries from both indus-
Fair AAAI award-winning projects, Doctoral Consortium papers, and try and academia.
EAAI-20 posters. A total of 25 technical demos and 137 student abstract Proposition: Academic AI researchers should focus their attention on research
problems that are not of immediate interest to industry.
posters will be divided among the three evening sessions. For a listing of
posters and demos, please see the online technical schedule via Guide- This lighthearted and entertaining debate will examine the broad theme
book and the AAAI-20 Poster/Demo Program Guide. of how academic AI researchers should direct their efforts to have the
Poster / Demo sessions will include light suppers and complimentary most impact now that industry is investing huge amounts into in-house
soft drinks. A no-host bar will also be available. Admittance to the recep- research efforts. Teams of two will argue each side as forcefully as they
tion is included in the AAAI-20 registration. A $125.00 per person fee can (regardless of more nuanced positions the participants may hold), but
($15.00 for children over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and oth- will then conclude by seeking a middle ground and reflecting on strong
er nontechnical conference registrants per night. arguments from the other side. Finally, we’ll hear from the audience.

Pedro Silva, Anthony Simonet, Gabriel Antoniu, Second Place: Michele Flammini (Gran Sasso Science Institute,
Alexandru Costan, Véronique Masson, Manish Sarit Kraus, Amos Azaria, Jelena Fiosina, Maike Italy)
Parashar, Ivan Rodero, Alexandre Termier Greve, Noam Hazon, Lutz Kolbe, Tim-Benjamin Zhe Gan (Microsoft, USA)
Lembcke, Jorg P. Muller, Soren Schleibaum, and Thomas Keller (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention: Mark Vollrath for AI for Explaining Decisions in Junyi Jessy Li (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Special Track on AI for Social Impact Multi-Agent Environments Dominik Peters (University of Oxford, UK)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Inverse Reinforce- Third Place: Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro (University of Pennsylva-
ment Learning in Advancing Cancer Research Gerardo Ocampo Diaz and Vincent Ng for Unveil- nia, USA)
John Kalantari, Heidi Nelson, Nicholas Chia ing Hidden Intentions Miquel Ramirez (University of Melbourne, Aus-
tralia)
AAAI-20 Blue Sky Idea Awards AAAI-20 Outstanding Sylvie Thiébaux (The Australian National Universi-
ty, Australia)
AAAI, in cooperation with the Computing Re- Program Committee Members
Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan, USA)
search Association Computing Community Con- Each year, AAAI recognizes several outstanding Yair Zick (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
sortium (CCC), is pleased to present three Blue program committee and senior program com-
AAAI-20 Outstanding
Sky Awards for papers that present ideas and vi- mittee members. These individuals have gone
Program Committee Awards
sions that can stimulate the research community above and beyond the expectations for the role
Ingo Pill (TU Graz, Austria)
to pursue new directions, such as new problems, showing exceptional judgment, clarity, knowl-
Sarath Sreedharan (Arizona State University, USA)
new application domains, or new methodologies. edgeability, and leadership in reaching a consen-
Sergio Mover (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
The recipients of the Blue Sky Idea travel awards, sus decision.
Alexander D'Amour (Google Brain, USA)
sponsored by the CCC, are: AAAI-20 Outstanding Senior
First Place: Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (SRI International, USA)
Philip R. Cohen for Back to the Future for Dialogue Program Committee Awards Chris Harshaw (Yale University, USA)
Research Anelia Angelova (Google, USA) Andrzej Kaczmarczyk (TU Berlin, Germany)

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 Tutorial Forum
The AAAI-20 Tutorial Forum is open to all technical registrants for a small fee per tutorial. Half-day tutorials are 4 hours, including breaks;
quarter-day tutorials are one hour and 45 minutes with no break. Quarter-day tutorials are denoted by a ‘Q’ at the end of the tutorial code.
Tutorial coffee breaks will be held at 10:15 AM and 3:45 PM outside the designated meeting spaces.

Friday, February 7 SA3: Recent Advances in Fair Resource Allocation

Rupert Freeman and Nisarg Shah
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM Beekman, 2nd floor
FA1: AI in Precision Medicine: Towards Knowledge Empowered Intelligence 8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
over “Small” Data
Fei Wang SA5Q: Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction
Beekman, 2nd floor Besmira Nushi, Dan Weld, Saleema Amershi and Adam Adam
Sutton South, 2nd floor
FA2: AI Planning for Robotics with ROSPlan
Michael Cashmore and Daniele Magazzeni 10:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Sutton Center, 2nd floor
SA6Q: Modularizing Natural Language Processing
FA3: Exploration-Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning Zhengzhong Liu, Zhiting Hu and Eric Xing
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Alessandro Lazaric and Matteo Pirotta Sutton South, 2nd floor
Sutton North, 2nd floor
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
FA4: Graph Neural Networks: Models and Applications
Yao Ma, Wei Jin, Jiliang Tang, Lingfei Wu and Tengfei Ma SP1: Rigorous Verification and Explanation of ML Models
Sutton South, 2nd floor Alexey Ignatiev, Joao Marques-Silva, Kuldeep Meel and Nina Narodytska
Regent, 2nd floor
FA5: Recent Directions in Heuristic-Search
Ariel Felner, Sven Koenig, Nathan Sturtevant and Daniel Harabor SP2: Optimization and Learning Approaches to Resource Allocation for Social
Regent, 2nd floor Good
Sanmay Das, John Dickerson, Duncan McElfresh and Bryan Wilder
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Sutton Center, 2nd floor
FP1: Differential Deep Learning on Graphs and its Applications SP3: Representation Learning for Causal Inference
Chengxi Zang and Fei Wang Sheng Li, Liuyi Yao, Yaliang Li, Jing Gao and Aidong Zhang
Sutton North, 2nd floor Sutton South, 2nd floor
FP2: New Frontiers of Automated Mechanism Design for Pricing and Auctions SP7: Synthesizing Explainable and Deceptive Behavior in Human-AI Interac-
Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm and Ellen Vitercik tion
Beekman, 2nd floor Subbarao Kambhampati, Tathagata Chakraborti, Sarath Sreedharan and
FP3: Probabilistic Circuits: Representations, Inference, Learning and Applica- Anagha Kulkarni
tions Gibson, 2nd floor
Antonio Vergari, YooJung Choi, Robert Peharz, and Guy Van den Broeck
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Sutton Center, 2nd floor
SA1: Explainable AI: Foundations, Industrial Applications, Practical Chal-
FP4: Recent Advances in Transferable Representation Learning
lenges, and Lessons Learned (Part Two)
Muhao Chen, Kai-Wei Chang and Dan Roth
Freddy Lecue, Krishna Gade, Fosca Giannotti, Sahin Geyik, Riccardo Guidotti,
Sutton South, 2nd floor
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Pasquale Minervini, Varun Mithal and Ankur Taly
FP5: Statistical Machine Learning: Big, Multi-Source and Sparse Data with Sutton North, 2nd floor
Complex Relations and Dynamics
SP4Q: Multi-Agent Distributed Constrained Optimization
Trong Dinh Thac Do, Longbing Cao and Jinjin Guo
Ferdinando Fioretto and William Yeoh
Regent, 2nd floor
Beekman, 2nd floor
Saturday, February 8 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM SP5Q: Creative and Artistic Writing via Text Generation
SA1: Explainable AI: Foundations, Industrial Applications, Practical Chal- Juntao Li and Rui Yan
lenges, and Lessons Learned (3/4-day extending until 3:45 PM) Beekman, 2nd floor
Freddy Lecue, Krishna Gade, Fosca Giannotti, Sahin Geyik, Riccardo Guidotti, SP6Q: Recent Advances in Machine Teaching: From Machine to Human
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Pasquale Minervini, Varun Mithal and Ankur Taly Yao Zhou and Jingrui He
Sutton North, 2nd floor Sutton North, 2nd floor
SA2: Fairness and Bias in Peer Review and other Sociotechnical Intelligent Sys-
tems
Nihar Shah and Zachary Lipton
Sutton Center, 2nd floor

Dario Bertero (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan) Konstantin Mishchenko (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Mahmoud Assran (McGill University / Facebook AI Research, Canada) Saudi Arabia)
Brais Martínez (Samsung AI Research, USA) Mak Roberts (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

8 AWARDS / TUTORIAL FORUM

 AAAI-20, IAAI-20, EAAI-20 Invited Presentations
AAAI-20 and IAAI-20 Invited Presentations will be held in the Grand Ballroom, February 9-12. EAAI-20 Invited Presentations will be held in Bryant,
2nd floor, February 8-9. Overflow seating for AAAI-20 plenary events in available in the Trianon Ballroom, 3rd floor.

Saturday, February 8 AAAI Presidential Address

9:05 – 9:55 AM Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award Lecture:
8:30 – 9:20 AM
#AIForAll: A 64-Year Perspective on
AI, Computing, Inclusion, and Diversity Yolanda Gil is Director of Knowledge Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute of
the University of Southern California, and Research Professor in Computer Science and in
Marie desJardins (Simmons University, USA) Spatial Sciences. She is also Director of the USC Center for Knowledge-Powered Interdisci-
As the AI community prepares to celebrate the 2^8 plinary Data Science. She received her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from
anniversary of the Dartmouth Summer Research Carnegie Mellon University, with a focus on artificial intelligence. Dr. Gil collaborates with
Project on Artificial Intelligence that launched AI scientists in many domains on intelligent, workflows, semantic metadata capture, social
as a field, it is an appropriate time to look back over knowledge collection, computer-mediated collaboration, and automated discovery. Her current focus is on
the last 64 years to consider how far we have pro- using artificial intelligence for environmental resources, integrating climate, hydrology, agriculture, and
gressed. This presentation will focus particularly socioeconomic models. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Past Chair
on trends in education, diversity, and inclusion in of its Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence. She is also Fellow of the Association for the Advance-
AI and in computing more generally. The talk will ment of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was elected as its 24th President in 2016.
also include recommendations for the field, includ-
ing an increased emphasis on ethical computing,
best practices for inclusive classroom and work en-
vironments, and how to be an effective ally for un-
derrepresented groups. with problems in human-computer interaction 11:15 – 12:15 PM
alone spanning natural language processing, visu-
Marie desJardins is the Dean of the College of Or-
al, audible, and tangible interfaces, accessible de-
IAAI-20 Invited Talk
ganizational, Computational, and Information Sci-
sign, social computing, art-making. Machine David Cox (MIT-Watson AI Lab, USA)
ences at Simmons University in Boston. She was
learning is now being applied in every one of these David Cox is the IBM Director of the MIT-IBM
previously a professor at the University of Mary-
domains. Bruner claimed that “any subject can be Watson AI Lab, a first of its kind industry-academ-
land, Baltimore County, where she was a UMBC
taught effectively in some intellectually honest ic collaboration between IBM and MIT, focused on
Presidential Teaching Professor, Academic Inno-
form to any child at any stage of development.” fundamental research in artificial intelligence. The
vation Fellow, Honors Faculty Fellow, and Associ-
Computing education must take up this call, in- Lab was founded with a $240m, 10-year commit-
ate Dean of UMBC’s College of Engineering and In-
cluding offering developmentally-appropriate ma- ment from IBM and brings together researchers at
formation Technology. She is a AAAI Fellow, an
chine learning education. I will present a vision for IBM with faculty at MIT to tackle hard problems at
ACM Distinguished Member, and the recipient of
how this could unfold, share progress on my team’s the vanguard of AI. Prior to joining IBM, David
the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award, the
efforts to develop machine learning education for was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the
UC Berkeley Distinguished Alumni Award in Com-
youth, and discuss ongoing challenges. Natural Sciences and of Engineering and Applied
puter Science, and mentoring awards from CRA-E
and NCWIT. Dr. desJardins is known for her re- 5:20 – 7:20 PM Sciences at Harvard University, where he held ap-
search in artificial intelligence, her work in ex- pointments in Computer Science, the Department
AAAI-20 Special Event
panding access to K-12 computer science educa- of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Center
Special ACM Turing 2018 Award for Brain Science. Please see Guidebook for talk de-
tion, and her leadership as a mentor, teacher, and
champion for diversity in computing. While at Winner Event and Panel scription.
UMBC, she advised 12 Ph.D. students, 26 M.S. stu- Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila), 5:20 – 6:10 PM
dents, and over 100 undergraduate researchers. Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector Institute, and IAAI-20 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture:
University of Toronto), Yann LeCun (New York Uni- The Third AI Summer
Sunday, February 9 versity and Facebook)
Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)
8:00 – 8:30 AM See description on page 10
The first AI summer was based on optimism about
AAAI-20 / IAAI-20 Welcome and Opening the power of general power solving, and the second
Monday, February 10 on the power of knowledge engineering. Advances
Remarks, AAAI Organizational Awards and in machine learning have brought us into the third
Honors 8:30 – 9:20 AM AI summer. This time, however, the stakes are in-
Combining Machine Learning calculably higher than in the past. The danger is
8:30 – 9:20 AM not just, as before, that marketplace hype and an
and Control for Reactive Robots
AAAI Presidential Address overly narrow scientific focus will lead to disillu-
Aude Billard (EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Federale sionment and retrenchment; but rather that AI
Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute, de Lausanne, Switzerland) now works well enough that it can be used – and is
USA) Robots have got out of the secure and predictable already being used – to eliminate human freedom
See description above environment of factories and start to face the com- and dignity. A dystopian future is not inevitable;
plexity and unpredictability of our daily environ- progress in AI might instead usher in an era of un-
9:40 – 10:30 AM precedented prosperity, knowledge, and freedom.
ments. To avoid that robots fail lamely at the task
EAAI-20 Invited Talk they are programmed to do, robots now need to This talk will explore the scientific, social, and
On Contemporaneous Computing adapt on the go. I will present techniques from ma- geopolitical forces at play in the third AI summer.
Education: ML for K-12R chine learning to allow robots to learn strategies to Henry Kautz is currently serving as director for the
enable them to react rapidly and efficiently to division for Information and Intelligent Systems at
Benjamin Shapiro and Abigail Zimmermann-
changes in the environment, and applications of the National Science Foundation. He is a professor
Niefield (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) these techniques for rapid and robust manipula- of computer science and founding director of the
Computer science is a field of remarkable breadth, tion of objects. Goergen Institute for Data Science at the Universi-

INVITED PRESENTATIONS 9
 Special ACM Turing 2018 Award Winner Event and Panel
Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector Institute, and University of Toronto),
Yann LeCun (New York University and Facebook)
Sunday, February 9, 5:20 – 7:20 PM, Grand Ballroom
This special two-hour event will feature individual talks by each speaker, followed by a panel session. ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and
Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a crit-
ical component of computing. Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute;
Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute, and University Professor Emeritus at the University of
Toronto; and LeCun is Professor at New York University and VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook.

Turing Award Winner AAAI Talk presence and poses of object capsules. The encoder is trained by back-
Deep Learning for AI propagating through a decoder, which predicts the pose of each already
discovered part using a mixture of pose predictions. The parts are discov-
Yoshua Bengio (Mila (Quebec AI Institute) ered directly from an image, in a similar manner, by using a neural en-
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has been transformed in coder, which infers parts and their affine transformations. We learn ob-
fundamental ways by the development and success of deep ject- and part-capsules on unlabeled data, and then cluster the vectors of
learning. Whereas symbolic approaches to AI focused on hu- presences of object capsules. When told the names of these clusters, we
man-provided formal knowledge presented as logical rules achieve state-of-the-art results for unsupervised classification on MNIST.
and facts, much of what humans know is not accessible to
them consciously and is thus difficult to communicate with Turing Award Winner AAAI Talk
computers. Machine learning bypasses this problem by allowing the com- Self-Supervised Learning
puter to acquire that knowledge from data, observations and interactions Yann LeCun (Facebook AI Research & New York University)
with an environment. Neural networks and deep learning are machine
learning methods inspired by the brain in which information is not repre- Almost all the recent progress in computer perception,
sented by symbolic statements but instead where concepts have distributed speech recognition, and NLP has been built around super-
representations, patterns of activations of features which can overlap across vised deep learning, in which machines are required to pre-
concepts, making it possible to quickly generalize to new concepts. When we dict human-provided annotations. Today, DL systems are
make it possible to compose modules which process such distributed repre- at the core of search engines and social network content fil-
sentations (either recursively or through layers of processing) it is possible tering and retrieval, medical image analysis, driving assis-
to represent very rich functions compactly and obtain even better general- tance, and many areas of science. But the best machine learning methods
ization. More recently, deep learning has gone beyond its traditional realm still require considerably more data or interaction with the environment
of pattern recognition over vectors or images and expanded into many self- than human and animal learning. How do we get machines to learn mas-
supervised methods and generative models able to capture complex multi- sive amounts of background knowledge about how the world works by ob-
modal distributions, into models with attention which can process graphs servation in a task-independent way, like animals and humans? One
and sets, leading to breakthroughs in speech recognition and synthesis, promising avenue is self-supervised learning (SSL), where the machine
computer vision and machine translation, for example. The talk closes with predicts parts of its input from other parts of its input. SSL has already
a discussion of current limitations and forward-looking research directions brought about great progress in discrete domains, such as language un-
towards human-level AI. derstanding. The question is how to use SSL for high-dimensional contin-
uous domains such as audio, images and video.
Turing Award Winner AAAI Talk
Stacked Capsule Autoencoders
Geoffrey Hinton (Google and The Vector Institute)
An object can be seen as a geometrically organized set of in-
terrelated parts. A system that makes explicit use of these
geometric relationships to recognize objects should be nat-
urally robust to changes in viewpoint, because the intrinsic
geometric relationships are viewpoint-invariant. We de-
scribe an unsupervised version of capsule networks, in
which a neural encoder, which looks at all of the parts, is used to infer the

ty of Rochester. He has been a researcher at AT&T science and other disciplines. 8:30 – 9:20 AM
Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and a full professor at AAAI-20/IAAI-20 Joint Invited Talk:
6:15 – 7:15 PM
the University of Washington, Seattle. In 2010, he
was elected President of AAAI, and in 2016 was AAAI-20 Oxford-Style Debate: AI and Security: Lessons,
elected Chair of the AAAS Section on Information, Academic AI Research Challenges and Future Directions
Computing, and Communication. His interdisci- in an Age of Industry Labs Dawn Song (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
plinary research includes practical algorithms for
solving worst-case intractable problems in logical Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown Dawn Song is a Professor in the Department of
and probabilistic reasoning; models for inferring (University of British Columbia, Canada) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
human behavior from sensor data; pervasive See page 7 for details. the University of California, Berkeley. Her research
healthcare applications of AI; and social media an- interest lies in AI and deep learning, security and
alytics. In 1989 he received the IJCAI Computers Tuesday, February 11 privacy. She is the recipient of various awards in-
and Thought Award, which recognizes outstanding cluding the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggen-
young scientists in artificial intelligence, and 30 8:00 – 8:30 AM heim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Al-
years later received 2018 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell fred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Tech-
Award for career contributions that have breadth
AAAI-20 Conference Awards nology Review TR-35 Award, and Best Paper
within computer science and that bridge computer Presented by Vincent Conitzer and Fei Zha, Cochairs Awards from top conferences in Computer Securi-

10 INVITED PRESENTATIONS / TURING AWARD WINNER EVENT

 Workshop Program
Friday – Saturday, February 7–8
Registration for a workshop requires a supplemental fee for AAAI-20 technical registrants. Individuals who do not wish to participate in any other
AAAI-20 programs or events may elect the workshop only registration fee. Coffee breaks will be held at 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM outside the designated
meeting space. Please consult the website to confirm starting and ending times.

Friday, February 7, 2020 W12: Generalization in Planning Saturday, February 8, 2020 W11: Evaluating Evaluation of AI Sys-
Morgan, 2nd floor tems
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM Gramercy East, 2nd floor
W13: Health Intelligence
W1: Affective Content Analysis (AffCon Gibson, 2nd floor W2: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Se- W15: Interactive and Conversational
2020): Interactive Affective Response curity (AICS) Recommendation Systems (WICRS)
Bryant, 2nd floor W14: Intelligent Process Automation —
Concourse C, Concourse level Clinton, 2nd floor
RPA Meets AI
W5: Artificial Intelligence of Things Concourse C, Concourse level W3: Artificial Intelligence for Education W17: Plan, Activity, and Intent Recogni-
(AIoT) Concourse E, Concourse level tion (PAIR)
Lincoln, 4th floor W16: Knowledge Discovery from Un-
Murray Hill West, 2nd floor
structured Data in Financial Services W4: Artificial Intelligence in Team
W6: Artificial Intelligence Safety Madison, 2nd floor Sports W19: Reasoning and Learning for Hu-
(SafeAI) Concourse D, Concourse level man-Machine Dialogues (DEEP-
Concourse G, Concourse level W18: Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intel-
DIAL20)
ligence W8: Deep Learning on Graphs: Method-
W7: Cloud Intelligence: AI/ML for Effi- Morgan, 2nd floor
Clinton, 2nd floor ologies and Applications
cient and Manageable Cloud Services Murray Hill East, 2nd floor W20: Reasoning for Complex Question
Hudson, 4th floor W22: Reproducibility in AI (RAI 2020) –
Answering
Future Direction and Reproducibility W9: Dialog System Technology Chal-
W10: Engineering Dependable and Se- Madison, 2nd floor
Challenge lenge (DSTC8)
cure Machine Learning Systems Midtown, 4th floor Concourse G, Concourse level W21: Reinforcement Learning in Games
Concourse D, Concourse level Gramercy West, 2nd floor
W23: Statistical Relational AI (StarAI)
Concourse A, Concourse level

transactions. One question that arises is the value in Paris, and he has been awarded the Andrew
Student Welcome Reception of data (for example, the increase in profit from us- Carnegie Fellowship for 2019 to 2021. He is an
ing additional data), comparing the value of differ- Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; Dis-
Sponsored by ent types of data, e.g. more consumers or longer re- tinguished Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Hu-
USC/Information Sciences Institute tention for each consumer. man-Centered AI; Associate Fellow of the Royal In-
Friday, February 7, 6:00 – 7:30 PM, stitute for International Affairs (Chatham House);
Mercury Suite, 3rd floor 4:45 – 6:15 PM and Fellow of the Association for the Advancement
AAAI-20 AI History Panel: of Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Com-
All students are welcome at the AAAI-20
Advancing AI by Playing Games puting Machinery, and the American Association
Student Welcome Reception. for the Advancement of Science. His book Artificial
Light refreshments will be served. See page 7 for details. Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter
Norvig) is the standard text in AI. His research
Wednesday, February 12 covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelli-
ty and Deep Learning. She is an ACM Fellow and gence including machine learning, probabilistic
an IEEE Fellow. She is ranked the most cited schol- 8:40 – 9:40 AM reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, re-
ar in computer security (AMiner Award). She ob- AAAI-20 Invited Talk: al-time decision making, multitarget tracking,
tained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Prior to computer vision, computational physiology, and
joining UC Berkeley as a faculty, she was a faculty How Not to Destroy the World With AI philosophical foundations. He also works for the
at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007. Stuart Russell (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) United Nations, developing a new global seismic
She is also a serial entrepreneur and has been Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty.
named on the Female Founder 100 List by Inc. and honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982 His current concerns include the threat of au-
Wired25 List of Innovators. Please see Guidebook and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in tonomous weapons and the long-term future of ar-
for talk description. 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University tificial intelligence and its relation to humanity.
of California at Berkeley, where he is Professor
3:50 – 4:40 PM (and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering and
AAAI-20 Invited Talk:
Computer Sciences, holder of the Smith-Zadeh
Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center
Student Activities
The Economic Value of Data
for Targeted Pricing
for Human-Compatible AI. He has served as an and Outreach
Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC
Susan Athey (Stanford University, USA) San Francisco and as Vice-Chair of the World Eco- AAAI is pleased to offer the following student ac-
nomic Forum's Council on AI and Robotics. He is a tivities designed to enrich the student experience
This presentation reviews recent research about
recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator
consumer choices in shopping, for example in su- at the AAAI conference. For complete informa-
Award of the National Science Foundation, the IJ-
permarkets. Historically a large literature in eco- tion about Student Programs at AAAI-20, please
CAI Computers and Thought Award, the World
nomics and marketing studied consumer choices
among brands, considering one product category Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell see aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/aaai-20-stu-
at a time. A series of recent papers makes use of ad- Prize of the American Statistical Association, the dent-activities-overview.
vances in computation and techniques from matrix Feigenbaum Prize of the Association for the Ad-
vancement of Artificial Intelligence, and Outstand-
factorization to study consumer responses to price
ing Educator Awards from both ACM and AAAI.
Student Welcome Reception
changes using observational data from consumer
From 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal See boxed description on this page.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOP PROGRAM / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH 11

 Special Tracks at AAAI-20

AAAI-20 Special Track on AI for Social Impact ECML-PKDD, ICAPS, SAT, CP, ICCV, ACL, AIIDE, ILP, ICWSM,
Sunday – Monday, February 9-10, Sutton South, 2nd floor CogSci, ACM EC, and ACM FAT*. Please see the online conference
AAAI-20 is pleased to present the Special Track on AI for Social Im- schedule for exact talk times.
pact. This track recognizes that high- quality research on social impact
domains often leads to papers that differ from traditional AAAI sub- AI in Practice
missions along multiple dimensions. These are motivated by the fol- Wednesday, February 12, Grand Ballroom
lowing issues: The 2020 edition of AI in Practice will focus on emerging applications
Data collection may be difficult and may require innovative methods and of AI in healthcare. The aim of the program is to offer a venue for ex-
validations, for instance to address large scale data gathering in the field,
eliminate bias and ensure fairness.
changing ideas among participants from different disciplines, from
general computer science, to AI and ethics, to medicine and public
Problem modeling is a time-intensive activity that require significant col-
laborations with domain experts and needs to balance a variety of trade- health. The event program will include keynotes, invited talks, and a
offs in decision making. discussion panel. Keynote addresses will be presented by Vivian Lee
Social impact may be realized through time-consuming field studies that (President, Health Platforms, Verily Life Sciences) and Aneesh
typically compare a baseline with the application of novel algorithms in Chopra (President, CareJourney, former first CTO of the United
the real world, and the experimental design can be challenging and the States).
evaluation may be multifaceted.
The goal of this track at AAAI 2020 is to highlight these technical chal- Keynote
lenges and opportunities and to showcase the social benefits of artifi- Big Data, AI and the Journey to Value Driven Care
cial intelligence. The program includes 25 technical papers in full oral
Vivian S. Lee (Verily Life Sciences)
presentations. For complete schedule information, please consult the To improve outcomes and reduce the costs of care, health systems are in-
online program. creasingly being expected to deliver higher levels of value to their patients
and families. How can new and existing sources of data, combined with AI
Senior Member Presentations tools and analytics support the move to value-based care? What are the
most promising ways in which they can improve the engagement of both
Sunday and Monday, February 9 –10, Regent, 2nd floor
patients and physicians in the co-production of health? Vivian Lee, Presi-
The AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation track comprises two sub- dent of Verily Health Platforms and former CEO of University of Utah
tracks: Summary Talks: established researchers provide broad talks Health, will explore these questions in her presentation, Big Data, AI and
the Journey to Value Driven Care.
on a well-developed body of research or an important new research
area; and Blue Sky Talks: authors present ideas and visions that can Keynote
stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as Connecting Dots: How Open Data, Open APIs, and Payment
new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies, that Reform will Fuel Care Delivery Reform
are likely to stimulate significant new research. Six summary talks and Aneesh Chopra (CareJourney, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2009-
eight Blue Sky talks will be presented (please see the online conference 2012)
schedule for exact times). For more information about the Blue Sky The need to reform the way we delivery care continues as fiscal, access and
Awards, please see page 7. quality pressures continue to mount. Building on the progress of the Oba-
ma Administration, the Trump Administration has launched the “My-
HealthEData” initiative anchored on consumer-directed health exchange;
Sister Conference Track opened up more government data for measuring performance, including
Monday, February 10, Nassau, 2nd floor Medicare Advantage and Medicaid encounters; and added more risk-
The AAAI-20 Sister Conference Track is designed to foster communi- based alternative payment models. In this presentation, Chopra shares his
views on how AI-powered consumer-trusted applications will help pa-
cation inside the field of artificial intelligence. The track will present tients make better decisions at each step of their care journey.For detailed
exciting recent advances in subareas of artificial intelligence through presentation information, please refer to the online conference schedule.
the lens of major sister conferences. Sixteen talks derived from the fol-
A full list of AI in Practice presentations and a schedule is available at
lowing conferences will be featured: ICML, ICLR, UAI, AAMAS,
aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/ai-in-practice.

AAAI 2020 Sticker Social Event special AI sticker will be given to those who meet tium (DC) provides an opportunity for a group of
new people at the conference. Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their re-
In past years AAAI has hosted a research speed
search interests and career objectives in an inter-
dating event to facilitate social interactions at the
Unofficial Student Slack Channel disciplinary workshop together with a panel of
conference. This year, there will not be a single
If you are interested in finding and meeting other established researchers. The seventeen students
social event for this purpose, but participants are
students to participate in activities at AAAI, con- accepted to participate in this program will also
encouraged to interact throughout the confer- participate in the AAAI-20 evening Poster / De-
sider joining the (unofficial) student slack chan-
ence. To facilitate this, participants will be pro- mo Session 1 on Sunday, February 9. All interest-
nel. Instructions for joining can be found at at
vided with stickers and are encouraged to place ed AAAI-20 student registrants are invited to ob-
movingai.com/AAAI20.
the answer to social questions on their name tag. serve the presentation, as space allows.
Doing so means that you are open to social inter- AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium AAAI and SIGAI gratefully acknowledge the
actions with people at the conference that you do Friday – Saturday, February 7-8 generous grants from AI Journal and David E.
not know. Find stickers and instructions near the Nassau West, 2nd floor Smith, which make this program possible. The
registration desk and at the student reception. A The Twenty-Fifth AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consor- DC schedule is available at aaai-dc.github.io.

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 Colocated Conferences at AAAI-20

AAAI/ACM Conference gram registration. The proceedings of the IAAI program will be includ-
ed in the full AAAI-20 proceedings, and electronic copies of all papers
on AI, Ethics, and Society are available via the online schedule (Guidebook). For full information
Friday and Saturday, February 7-8
on the three IAAI-20 invited talks, please see pages 9–10. For the
schedule of paper presentations, please refer to the online schedule.
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd floor
As AI is becoming more pervasive in our life, its impact on society is
more significant and concerns and issues are raised regarding aspects
such as value alignment, data handling and bias, regulations, and
The Tenth Symposium on Educational
workforce displacement. Only a multi-disciplinary and multi-stake- Advances in Artificial Intelligence
holder effort can find the best ways to address these concerns, includ-
Saturday – Sunday, February 8-9
ing experts of various disciplines, such as ethics, philosophy, eco- Bryant, 2nd floor
nomics, sociology, psychology, law, history, and politics. In order to
address these issues in a scientific context, AAAI and ACM joined EAAI-20 (eaai.cs.mtu.edu) provides a venue for researchers and edu-
forces to start this conference in 2018. Attendance at AIES 2020 is cators to discuss issues and share resources related to teaching AI and
available for an additional fee. The full schedule for the AIES 2020 using AI in education. Most contributions address undergraduate and
Conference is available at www.aies-conference.com, and will be dis- graduate education, but some extend to the K-12 and postgraduate
tributed in hard copy to registered attendees. levels. The program comprises two invited talks, including the Out-
standing Educatior Award Lecture, a main track, and special tracks on
AI for Education, Blue Sky Ideas, Model AI Assignments, and the
The Thirty-Second Annual Conference EAAI-21 Undergraduate Research Challenge.
Registration for EAAI-20 is included in the AAAI-20 technical pro-
on Innovative Applications of Artificial gram registration. An EAAI-20 only registration is also available for
Intelligence (IAAI-20) registrants who wish to attend the symposium only. The proceedings
of the EAAI program will be included in the full AAAI-20 proceed-
Sunday – Tuesday, February 9-11 ings, and electronic copies of all papers are available via the online
Sutton Center, 2nd floor
schedule (Guidebook). EAAI posters will be presented Sunday, Febru-
The Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of ary 9 in the AAAI-20 Poster / Demo Session in Americas Hall I/II.
Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-20) focuses on successful applications EAAI-20 presentation lengths will be as follows:
that showcase novel uses of AI technology. The conference includes Main Track full papers: 20 minutes each
technical papers, challenge papers, and invited talks to explore issues, Main Track Poster lightning talks: 5 minutes each
methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of Model AI Assignment papers: 15 minutes each
AI applications; and to promote an interchange of ideas between basic Blue Sky Ideas: 5 minutes each
and applied AI. IAAI-20 has three tracks: (1) 11 deployed application For full information on invited talks and panels, please see page 9.
case studies, (2) 27 emerging applications or methodologies, and (3) For the schedule of paper presentations, please refer to the online
one challenge problem paper. schedule.
Registration for IAAI-20 is included in the AAAI-20 technical pro-

AAAI Undergraduate Consortium dergraduate student registrants are invited to ob- Student Abstract and Poster Program
Friday, February 7 serve the presentations, as space allows. Oral Presentations: Monday, February 10, 9:30 –
Nassau East, 2nd floor AAAI gratefully acknowledge the generous 10:45 AM, Bryant, 2nd floor
The AAAI Undergraduate Consortium (AAAI- grants from AI Journal, which makes this pro- Poster Presentations: Sunday – Tuesday
UC) will include a mentoring program for under- gram possible. Please consult Guidebook for the February 9-11 evenings, Americas Hall I/II
graduates attending AAAI and offer undergradu- presentation schedule. The Student Abstract and Poster program pro-
ate students an opportunity to enrich their con- vides a forum in which students can present and
ference experience by (1) presenting and receiv- AAAI Fellow / Student Lunches discuss their work during its early stages, meet
ing critical feedback about their work in a profes- Sunday – Wednesday, February 9 – 12 some of their peers who have related interests,
sional, academic setting; (2) meeting prospective 12:30 – 2:00 PM and introduce themselves to more senior mem-
graduate advisors; (3) receiving mentoring about First held in 2006, the AAAI Fellow / Student bers of the field. Students who have been selected
the advantages (and disadvantages) of pursuing Lunches program provides an opportunity for a as part of a group of 20 finalists to compete for
graduate studies in AI as well as practical early ca- small number of students to chat with a AAAI the “Best Student 3-Minute Presentation” will
reer advice; (4) expanding their professional net- Fellow over an informal lunch during the confer- present their work in 3-minute spotlight talks in
work to include both AI experts, current graduate ence. Sign-up sheets will be available AFTER 3:00 parallel with other technical sessions. These stu-
students, and undergraduate peers; and (5) pro- PM on Saturday, February 8 at the onsite registra- dents will present their posters on Monday
viding advice, tools, and resources for successful- tion desk on the 2nd floor Promenade. Students evening during the conference-wide poster/de-
ly applying to and attending graduate school in an should meet their designated Fellow in onsite mo session. The remaining student abstract
AI-related research. All interested AAAI-20 un- registration on their assigned day. posters will be presented on all three evenings.

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An award will be presented for the “Best Student Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of the providing human-scored model testing, and
Poster.” For a list of posters each night, please see longest established and most respected journals making available human-in-the-loop exception
the online schedule and the AAAI-20 Poster/De- in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has handling. We completely offload these activities,
mo Program Guide. published many of the key papers in the field. freeing data professionals to focus on their areas
The operation of the Editorial Board is supported of specialization. We support machine learning
Breakfast with Champions: financially through an arrangement with AIJ's projects broadly, with particular emphasis on
A Women's Mentoring Event publisher, Elsevier. The editorial board of Artifi- Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing
Monday, February 10 cial Intelligence is now in the unique position of and Entity Resolution, in financial services, re-
7:30 – 8:45 AM being able to make available substantial funds, of tail, defense, technology and manufacturing.
Sutton South, 2nd floor the order of EUR 240,000 per annum to support
AAAI is holding the sixth annual women's men- the promotion and dissemination of AI research. Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair
toring event for women students and junior Amazon
women professionals to meet with senior women Exhibitor / Job Fair amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/AAAI
in computer science and/or artificial intelligence. AI Singapore We fundamentally believe that scientific innova-
Pre-registration was required and admittance is www.aisingapore.org/ tion is essential to being the most customer-cen-
by ticket only. Sponsored by Elsevier and AAAI. AI Singapore (AISG) is a national AI programme tric company in the world. It's this ability to have
launched by the National Research Foundation an impact at scale that allows us to attract some
AAAI-20 Games Night (NRF) to anchor deep national capabilities in Ar- of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence
Tuesday, February 11 tificial Intelligence (AI) thereby creating social and related fields. Amazon’s machine learning
8:00 – 10:00 PM
Sutton Center, 2nd floor and economic impacts, grow the local talent, teams are looking forward to meeting you at
For details, please consult the online schedule. build an AI ecosystem, and put Singapore on the AAAI 2020. Come and visit us at the Amazon
world map. booth!
AAAI/SIGAI AI Job Fair Exhibitor Exhibitor
Tuesday, February 11, 12:30 – 3:00 PM
Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd floor
AITopics Appen
1-Minute Company Presentations: 12:30 – 1:00 PM www.aitopics.org www.appen.com
Tabletop exhibits: 1:00 – 3:00 PM AITopics is powered by AI technology from i2k Appen collects and labels data used to build and
The AAAI and ACM SIGAI AI Job Fair will pro- Connect Inc., AITopics is an official publication continuously improve the world’s most innova-
vide an opportunity for a host of companies and of the AAAI. AITopics is the Internet’s Largest tive artificial intelligence systems. With expertise
institutions to highlight their current job oppor- Collection of Information on Research, People, in more than 180 languages, a global crowd of
tunities. The short presentations will be followed News, and Applications of AI over 1 million skilled contractors, and the indus-
by meet-and-greet sessions. Over 30 employers Register to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card! try’s most advanced annotation platform, Appen
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and a schedule of presentations, please see the an AITopics sticker! See how you can customize
online schedule and aaaijobfair.com. an AITopics search! Review our list of classic pa- Exhibitor / Job Fair
For further information about student pro- pers and articles! AppZen, Inc.
grams, please refer to the Diversity events on Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn www.appzen.com
page 6. @ai_topics Aimesoft develop Multimodal AI solutions. Mul-
timodal AI combines multiple input sources
Exhibitor
(text, voice, image, numerical data, ...) and vari-
Sponsor and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ous intelligence algorithms into a single system
www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html
Exhibit Program to solve complicated problems. We will present
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation pro- various Multimodal AI solutions for smart docu-
Sunday – Tuesday, February 9 – 11 motes academic cooperation between excellent ment processing, billnote processing, stock pre-
Rhinelander Gallery scientists and scholars from Germany, the US, diction and Healthcare.
The AAAI-20 sponsor and exhibit program pro- and abroad, offering prestigious fellowships and
vides an opportunity for AI-related companies research awards for all career stages. Among Sponsor/ Job Fair
and publishers to support the goals of AAAI and these fellowships is the AvH Professorship for Apple
reach out to AI professionals. In some cases, Artificial Intelligence for top researchers in AI. www.apple.com
sponsors have elected to exhibit at AAAI-20.
We’re a diverse collection of people, reimagin-
AAAI wishes to thank all sponsors and exhibitors Sponsor / Exhibitor
ing what’s possible to help us do what we love in
for their participation at AAAI-20! Alegion new ways. The people who work here have rein-
alegion.com vented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone,
Exhibit Hours Alegion offloads from enterprise data science iPad, and Apple Watch, and with services, in-
Sunday, February 9: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
teams the preparation of training data for ma- cluding iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and
Monday, February 10: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday, February 11: 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM chine learning initiatives. Our offering operates Apple Pay. Employees in machine learning and
Tuesday Job Fair only: 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM at massive scale, combining a data and task man- AI are building amazing experiences into every
agement software platform with a nearly million- Apple product, allowing millions to do what
Sponsor / Job Fair member global pool of trained data specialists. they never imagined. Because Apple fully inte-
AI Journal We assist data science teams throughout the AI grates hardware and software across every de-
www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/ lifecycle, delivering custom training datasets, vice, these researchers and engineers collaborate

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more effectively to improve the user experience ness that helps scientists and clinicians to find provides high-volume data annotation services
while protecting user data. Come make an im- new answers, reshape human knowledge, and using our internal workforce of 2,500+ full time,
pact with the products you create and the re- tackle the most urgent human crises. in-house, data technicians located domestically
search you publish. and abroad. We specialize in image/video/au-
Sponsor dio/text data (PHI, PII, HIPAA, FOUO, etc.) and
Exhibitor Facebook have labeled over 150 million data points.
Association for Computing Machinery ai.facebook.com
www.acm.org Exhibitor
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to
ACM is a global organisation which brings to- build community and bring the world closer to- IOS Press
gether computing educators, researchers, and gether. Our teams accelerate research break- www.iospress.com
professionals to inspire dialogue, share re- throughs across both existing and new learning IOS Press is headquartered in Amsterdam with
sources, and address the field's challenges. paradigms to develop state-of-the-art AI that has satellite offices in the USA, Germany, India, and
a positive impact on people and society. We're China and serves the information needs of sci-
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair advancing artificial intelligence through funda- entific and medical communities worldwide.
Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Tech- mental and applied research in open collabora- IOS Press publishes more than 80 international
nology Co., Ltd tion with the community. peer-reviewed journals and about 75 book titles
www.baidu.com each year on subjects ranging from computer
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair science, AI, and engineering to medicine, neuro-
Baidu is the leading Chinese language Internet
search provider and the largest Chinese website Google science, and cancer research.
globally. Baidu aims to make the complicated ai.google
Sponsor / Exhibitor
world simpler through technology. Google's mission is to organize the world’s infor-
mation and make it universally accessible and
Jane Street
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair useful, and we advance that mission every day in janestreet.com
Bloomberg incredible new ways. Research across Google Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that uses
www.techatbloomberg.com provides new ways of looking at old problems innovative technology, a scientific approach, and
Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted and helps transform how we all work and live, a deep understanding of markets to guide our
information network for financial professionals. and we think the biggest impact comes when ev- business. We are a global liquidity provider and
Among our 6,000+ software engineers, eryone in the world can access it. To that end, we market maker, operating around the clock and
Bloomberg employs 150+ data scientists and re- use state-of-the-art computer science techniques around the globe, out of offices in New York,
search engineers who employ machine learning to solve problems for our users, our customers London and Hong Kong.
and natural language processing to solve com- and the world, making it easier for you to do
things every day, whether it’s searching for pho- Exhibitor
plex, real-world problems related to core docu-
ment understanding, recommendation, and cus- tos of people you love, breaking down language John Wiley & Sons
tomer-facing systems. barriers, or helping you get things done with wileyonlinelibrary.com
your own personal digital assistant. Wiley publishes leading research, empowering
Exhibitor researchers, learners, universities, and corpora-
Cambridge University Press Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair tions to achieve their goals in an ever-changing
www.cambridge.org/academic Happy Elements world. With open research, we will build a fu-
www.happyelements.com ture where answers and evidence are more ac-
Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit
publisher that dates from 1534. We are part of Founded in 2009, with offices in Beijing, Shang- cessible, opening up the discovery process to the
the University of Cambridge and our mission is hai, Tokyo, Kyoto and San Francisco, Happy Ele- whole world.
to unlock people's potential with the best learn- ments is a leading interactive entertainment
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair
ing and research solutions. Visit our stand to dis- company with products in games, comic and an-
cuss publishing with us, browse our publications imation, IP affiliated products. We apply AI in Microsoft
and get a 20% discount. games to optimize the game productivity and www.microsoft.com/research
generate the best experience for all users. Microsoft Research is where leading scientists
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair and engineers have the freedom and support to
Dataminr Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair tackle complex problems that propel innovation
www.dataminr.com IBM Research and improve lives. Come by our booth to learn
We are Dataminr. The Leading AI Platform for research.ibm.com/labs/watson more about our research and open opportunities
Real-Time Event and Risk Detection. Dataminr’s IBM Research has been exploring AI and ma- with Microsoft. aka.ms/aaai-2019.
advanced AI platform detects the earliest signals chine learning for decades. Today, we’re advanc-
Exhibitor
of high-impact events and emerging risks, en- ing the field through our portfolio of research fo-
abling enterprise and public sector clients cused on Advancing, Scaling, and Trusting AI. Applied Computational Intelligence
around the globe to know critical information We’re also collaborating with like-minded insti- Laboratory, Missouri University of
first, respond with confidence, and manage tutions and individuals to push the boundaries of Science and Technology
crises more effectively. AI faster – for the benefit of industry and society. acil.mst.edu
The Applied Computational Intelligence Labora-
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair Sponsor / Exhibitor
tory performs research at the interface of unsu-
Elsevier Ltd. iMerit pervised and reinforcement learning. Supported
www.elsevier.com www.imerit.net by the DARPA L2M program, Night Vision Labs,
Elsevier is a global information analytics busi- We structure u-n-s-t-r-u-c-t-u-r-e-d data. iMerit and the Leonard Wood Institute, among others,

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the ACIL is a diverse (in every sense,) multidisci- Machine Learning are one of the key drivers in neers who build tools that channel massive
plinary group. Sony’s business success and the company has amounts of data into insights. And people across
been at the forefront of developing Machine multiple disciplines to support our growth and
Exhibitor Learning technologies for finance, manufactur- position at the forefront of investment manage-
The MIT Press ing, music and entertainment among many oth- ment, insurance, securities, private equity, and
mitpress.mit.edu ers. venture capital.
Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the
Exhibitor Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair
largest and most distinguished university presses
in the world and a leading publisher of books and Springer United Technologies Research Center
journals at the intersection of science, technolo- springer.com www.utrc.utc.com
gy, art, social science, and design. Springer is a leading global scientific and techni- UTRC conducts research in various AI areas, in-
cal portfolio, providing researchers in academia, cluding autonomy and human-machine interac-
Exhibitor scientific institutions and corporate R&D depart- tion, computer vision and deep learning for rev-
Morgan & Claypool Publishers ments with quality content through innovative olutionary aircraft systems. Our diverse technical
www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com information, products and services. staff (76% PhD) collaborates with our business
Morgan & Claypool publishes the Synthesis Lec- units, universities and national laboratories on
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair impactful scientific advances in AI that culmi-
tures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning edited by Ronald Brachman, Francesca
Superb AI nate in novel aerospace products.
Rossi, and Peter Stone. Synthesis lectures are 75- www.superb-ai.com
Sponsor / Exhibitor
to 200-page electronic and print books present- Superb AI, Inc. provides a new generation ma-
ing key topics written by prominent contributors chine learning data platform powering interna- Center for Artificial Intelligence
for an audience of students, researchers, and de- tional 30+ AI enterprises to build better AI in less Research, University of Tsukuba
velopers. time. 'Superb AI Suite', an enterprise software- air.tsukuba.ac.jp/en
as-a-service (SaaS) platform is built to manipu- Based in Tsukuba Science City, 60 km from
Exhibitor late, manage and understand machine learning Tokyo, C-AIR is a multidisciplinary research hub
NHB Elite Health datasets and to accelerate advanced AI applica- with a mission to develop and promote human-
elitehealth.com tion.  centered AI technologies. We collaborate with
We are on a mission to create a world where you many research centers of the University of
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair Tsukuba as well as such national research insti-
can achieve and sustain optimal health in the ad-
vancing field of AI.
TheTake tutes as NIMS, JAXA, and RIKEN
thetake.ai
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair At TheTake, we are dedicated to giving TV view- Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair
NLMatics ers immediate access to the products they dis- USC/ISI
www.nlmatics.com cover in the content they love. We use propri- www.isi.edu/home

NLMatics is an enterprise Natural Language etary deep learning technology to extract contex- Part of the University of Southern California’s
Processing (NLP) platform designed for deci- tual product metadata at scale to power en- highly ranked Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI
sion makers to transform vast quantities of un- hanced shoppable experiences on viewing plat- is one of the nation’s largest, most successful uni-
structured text into insightful analytics. NLMat- forms with partners like LG, WarnerMedia, and versity-affiliated computer research institutes.
ics’s proprietary semantic discovery engine uses NBCUniversal. USC/ISI is home to 400 research scientists, engi-
a combination of unsupervised learning, active neers, graduate and undergraduate students, and
Sponsor / Exhibitor staff. Half our researchers hold Ph.D.s and 40 are
learning and robust models pre-trained with a
variety of language comprehension tasks to
Tongdun Technology USC faculty.
www.tongdun.cn
eliminate time consuming training with cus-
Tongdun Technology is a professional third-par- Sponsor / Exhibitor
tomer data.
ty intelligent risk management and decision- Verisk Analytics
Sponsor / Exhibitor making service provider headquartered in www.verisk.com
Openstream Hangzhou, Zhejiang. By integrating artificial in- Verisk Analytics is a leading data analytics
www.openstream.com telligence into business scenarios, Tongdun provider in insurance, financial services, energy
Provider of leading virtual assistant platform Technology offers solutions in intelligent user and specialized markets serving customers in
employing open standards based multimodal analysis, intelligent risk management, intelligent over 30 countries. Verisk|AI conducts R&D for
conversational AI for unparalleled user experi- antifraud and intelligent operation to clients building human-machine collaborative systems
ence and intelligent process automation across from various industries including financial in- and workflows for extraction of knowledge and
multiple channels for financial, insurance, dustry, internet business, government bodies. information from data, capable of closed-loop,
healthcare, communications, retail and life-sci- interpretable reasoning and continuous learning.
Sponsor / Exhibitor
ences industry solutions with documented pro-
Two Sigma Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair
ductivity enhancement and RoI.
www.twosigma.com Visa Research
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair Two Sigma uses data science and technology to research.visa.com
Sony discover value in markets worldwide. We’re Visa Research is transforming commerce by ac-
www.sony.net/SonyInfo/sony_ai looking for people who see beauty in data and the celerating innovation and focusing on the scien-
Sony is a major electronics, entertainment and possibilities it reveals. Modelers who see connec- tific foundations of existing, emerging and future
finance conglomerate. Artificial Intelligence and tions and patterns in unexpected places. Engi- commerce related technologies across broad

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time horizons. Our research focus areas are Arti- for admittance to the technical, AIES, IAAI,
ficial Intelligence, Security and Future of Pay- EAAI, AI Job Fair, tutorial, workshop, and all Internet Access
ments. other programs, as well as all social events. The
AAAI-20 has arranged for complimentary
New York Hilton Midtown is a smoke-free facil-
wifi access for AAAI-20 registrants in meet-
Job Fair ity, and smoking is strictly forbidden in all meet-
ing areas. To access the internet in the meet-
Tuesday, February 11, 12:30 – 3:00 PM,
ing and sleeping rooms, as well as public areas. ing space area, please select Artificial Intelli-
Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd floor gence, and enter the following password:
Breaks AAAI20. AAAI-20 attendees staying at the
In addition to those existing sponsors and ex-
hibitors listed above (where indicated), the Job Coffee breaks will be available in mid-morning New York Hilton Midtown will also enjoy
Fair will include the following companies: and mid-afternoon each day of the technical con- complimentary wifi access in their sleeping
• Audatic GMbH ference in Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd floor (exhibit rooms. A password will be available upon
• Beijing Century Tal Education Technology Ltd. area) and the 2nd Floor East Corridor. For exact check-in.
• Charles River Analytics times, please consult the full detailed schedule.
• Hewlett Packard
• Kitware For early morning coffee, please consult the sug-
• MayoClinic gestions listed on page 18.
• Point72 Asset Management
• Raytheon BBN Technologies Business Center
• SigOpt
A business center is available at the New York Guidebook app (guidebook.com/g/aaai20/; short
Hilton Midtown. The center provides a photo name: aaai20, no password required). No hard
copying service, printing, fax, and express mail. copies are available.
Registration Career Information List of Attendees
Registration is located on the 2nd Floor Prome- A general information table for job opportunities A list of preregistered attendees of the conference
nade. If you have already registered, please go di- in the artificial intelligence industry will be made will be available for review at the AAAI onsite
rectly to the preregistration area. Registration is available in the registration area. Attendees are registration desk. Attendee lists will not be dis-
divided into the following sections: AAAI-20 welcome to post job descriptions of openings at tributed.
main conference registration, AIES-20 only reg- their company or institution. Please also visit the
istration, and exhibitor registration. All other AI Job Fair for additional career information. Printed Materials
registrants, such as workshop only or visitors, Display tables for the distribution of promotional
should proceed to the onsite registration desk for Family Friendly Initiative and informational materials of interest to confer-
their badge. If you have not yet registered, wish ence attendees will be located in the registration
to make a change to your registration, or have a Childcare
area.
balance due, please proceed to the onsite regis- Concourse B, Concourse Level
tration area. Registration hours are: AAAI has contracted with KiddieCorp to provide Proceedings/Technical Reports
Friday, February 7 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM onsite childcare during the AAAI-20 conference.
AAAI proceedings will be available after the con-
Saturday, February 8 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM The program is designed for children ages 6
Sunday, February 9 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
ference in electronic format only via the AAAI
months through 12 years old. Snacks and water
Monday, February 10 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Digital Library. Preliminary PDFs of all papers
Tuesday, February 11 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
will be provided; meals must to be supplied by are available via the online AAAI-20 schedule
Wednesday, February 12 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM parents. For complete details on the program (Guidebook). The preliminary PDFs will be re-
and a registration form, visit www.jotform.com/ moved once the final papers are placed in the
AAAI attendees are required to register via the
KiddieCorp/aaaikids digital library. Links to individual guidebook pa-
online system at aaaiconf.cvent.com/AAAI-20
Preregistration required. For onsite availabili- pers may not be made.
prior to arrival or at online kiosk in onsite regis-
ty, please contact KiddieCorp directly.
tration. All onsite registrations must be accom-
panied by payment via credit card, check or cash. Family Room Sticker / Ribbon Table
All attendees must pick up their registration Concourse H, Concourse level As part of AAAI’s Diversity and Inclusion pro-
packets/badges for admittance to programs. AAAI has arranged for a room for young family gram, a selection of stickers and ribbons are
needs relaxation between sessions. We ask that available at a table in the registration area. Atten-
you be respectful of others' privacy, as this room dees may optionally select gender identification
General Information may be used by nursing mothers. The room locks stickers or other specialty ribbons. Social net-
from the inside when being used privately. working event stickers are also available at this
table. See Student Activities on page 11-14 for
ADA Accessibility Children at Social Events
more information.
The New York Hilton Midtown is an Americans AAAI welcomes young children (under 12) at all
with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant facility. AAAI social events, such as the reception or Volunteer Station
The facility design includes accessible parking poster / demo receptions, for no additional
The volunteer station will be located in the onsite
and entrances, wheelchair ramps, multiple eleva- charge. If your child would like a souvenir of at-
registration area. All volunteers are required to
tors, automatic doors and accessible restroom fa- tendance at the conference, please come by regis- sign in prior to their shifts, and sign out when
cilities. tration for a badge! they finish.
Admission
Guidebook App and Online Schedule New York City Information
Each conference attendee will receive a name
The full list of all AAAI papers for all programs is NYCGo: (212) 484-1200. For more information,
badge upon registration. This badge is required
available in the online schedule and via the

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including restaurant suggestions, activities and additional information about
the area please visit nycgo.com
Disclaimer
Hotel Parking In offering the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, Freeman, PSAV, and
Valet parking is available for $75 per night ($80 per night for an SUV). Hotel all other service providers (hereinafter referred to as “Supplier(s)” for
overnight self-parking is not available. the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence), AAAI acts only in the
capacity of agent for the Suppliers that are the providers of the service.
Hotel Restaurants Because AAAI has no control over the personnel, equipment or oper-
ations of providers of accommodations or other services included as
Bridges Bar
part of the AAAI-20 program, AAAI assumes no responsibility for
Specialty Sandwiches and will not be liable for any personal delay, inconveniences or other
5:30 PM-2:00 PM damage suffered by conference participants which may arise by rea-
Herb N’ Kitchen son of (1) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of
Grab & go, 6:00 AM-1:00 AM any Supplier or its employees, (2) any defect in or failure of any vehi-
cle, equipment or instrumentality owned, operated or otherwise used
Nearby Grab & Go by any Supplier, or (3) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on
the part of any other party not under the control, direct or otherwise,
Angela’s Sandwich Shop of AAAI.
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Melt Shop
Included on the following pages is an overview of the AAAI, IAAI, and EAAI
135 W 50th Street (6-minute walk) Technical Sessions. Please consult the Guidebook app and the Technical Pro-
Sandwiches gram Schedule PDF at aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/ for detailed informa-
11:00 AM-10:00 PM tion.
Coffee Shops
AAAI-20 will serve coffee at the mid-morning and afternoon breaks. For ear-
ly morning coffee, please visit one of the following locations:
Talk Lengths
Herb N’ Kitchen AAAI and AISITalks = 20 minutes
New York Hilton Midtown
AAAI Spotlight Talks = 2 minutes
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
Senior Member Talks = 15 minutes
Joe & the Juice
350 6th Avenue Sister Conference Talks = 20 minutes
(3-minute walk) IAAI Deployed Talks = 20 minutes
Zibetto Espresso Bar IAAI Emerging Talks = 15 minutes
1221 6th Avenue EAAI Main and AI for Education Tracks = 20 minutes

Groceries/Sundries EAAI Poster Previews = 5 minutes

Morton Williams EAAI Model AI Assignments = 15 minutes
140 West 57th Street EAAI Blue Sky Talks = 5 minutes

Pharmacies
The following pharmacies are located within walking distance of the hotel:
Duane Reade, 51 W51st Street
CVS, 241 W 57th Street and 630 Lexington Avenue
Rite Aid, 301 W 50th Street
Walgreens, 1471 Broadway
Windsor, 1419 6th Avenue

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