Program

Reception Day: 28 August 2023

7.00 pm – 9:30 pm: Drinks (and light dinner) reception (Above Newcastle Bar, Lower Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3JE)

Day 1: 29 August 2023

8.15 am: Registration & Welcome (with coffee)

8.45 am: ISTM2023 Opening by Organising Committee

9.00 am: Opening Keynote by Professor Stephen Furber, Uni. Manchester, UK
(45 minutes followed by questions and answers)

10.00 am – 11.15 am: Technical Session 1 (New Algorithms)

Session Chair: Dr Anatoliy Gorbenko

1.1 (10.00 am – 10.25 am) Sidharth Maheshwari, Tousif Rahman, Adrian Wheeldon, Rishad Shafik, Alex Yakovlev and Fei Xia, Introducing TRIM Automata for Tsetlin Machines.

1.2 (10.25 am – 10.50 am) Bimal Bhattarai, Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Lei Jiao, Per-Arne Andersen, Svein Anders Tunheim, Rishad Shafik and Alex Yakovlev, Contracting Tsetlin Machine with Absorbing Automata.

1.3 (10.50 am – 11.15 am) Prajwal Kumar Sahu, Srinivas Boppu, Rishad Shafik, Svein Anders Tunheim, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Enhancing Inference Performance through Include only Literal Incorporation in Tsetlin Machine.

11.15 am: Coffee

11.30 am – 12.45 pm: Technical Session 2 (Emerging Applications)

Session Chair: Dr Domenico Balsamo

2.1  (11.30 am – 11.55 am) Jesse Ojuwu, Sidharth Maheshwari, Rishad Shafik, Alex Yakovlev and Mohamed Mamlouk, AI-Driven Battery State-of-Charge Estimation using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy.

2.2  (11.55 am – 12.20 pm) Hsu-Chiang Hsu, Bree Bang-Jensen, Michael P. Colaresi, Panos K. Chrysanthis and Vladimir I. Zadorozhny, Explainable Tracking of Political Violence Using the Tsetlin Machine.

2.3  (12.20 pm – 12.45 pm) Kristian Hovde Liland, Oliver Tomic, Ulf Geir Indahl, Cecilia Marie Futsæther, Lei Jiao, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Lars Gustav Snipen, Tsetlin Machine in DNA sequence classification.

12:45 pm: Lunch & break

2:00 pm: Tutorial Keynote Professor Granmo, CAIR Norway
(45 minutes followed by questions and answers)

3:00 pm: Coffee

3:10 pm – 4:00 pm: Technical Session 3 (Dynamics of Training in Tsetlin Machines)

Session Chair: Prof Vladimir Zadorozhny

3.1  (3.10 pm – 3.35 am) Tousif Rahman, Gang Mao, Sidharth Maheshwari, Komal Krishnamurthy, Rishad Shafik and Alex Yakovlev, Parallel Symbiotic Random Number Generator for Training Tsetlin Machines on FPGA.

3.2  (3.35 pm – 4.00 pm) Olga Tarasyuk, Anatoliy Gorbenko, Tousif Rahman, Rishad Shafik, Alex Yakovlev, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Lei Jiao, Systematic Search for Optimal Hyper-parameters of the Tsetlin Machine on MNIST Dataset.

4:15 pm: Bus leave for Social venue (Alnwick Gardens premises)
6:00 pm: Drinks reception, followed by dinner and concert at Alnwick Gardens
11:00 pm: Return back to Newcastle from Alnwick Gardens (by bus)

Day 2: 30 August 2023

8.30 am: Welcome (with coffee)

9.00 am: Industrial Keynote by Dr Blakely, pWc Switzerland
(45 minutes followed by questions and answers)

10.00 am – 11.15 am: Technical Session 4 (New Learning Methods)

Session Chair: Prof Alex Yakovlev

4.1  (10.00 am – 10.25 am) Didrik K. Drøsdal, Andreas Grimsmo, Per-Arne Andersen, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Morten Goodwin, Exploring the Potential of Model-Free Reinforcement Learning using Tsetlin Machines

4.2  (10.25 am – 10.50 am) Kuruge Darshana Abeyrathna, Andreas Hafver and Yi Edward Liu, Modeling Prediction Uncertainty in Regression using the Regression Tsetlin Machine.

4.3  (10.50 am – 11.15 am) Shannon How, Jagmohan Chauhan, Geoff Merrett and Jonathan Hare, FedTM: Memory and Communication Efficient Federated Learning with Tsetlin Machine.

11.15 am: Coffee

11.30 am – 12.45 pm: Technical Session 5 (Robust and Secure Tsetlin Machines)

Session Chair: Dr Jagmohan Chauhan

5.1  (11.30 am – 11.55 am) Emilia Przybysz, Bimal Bhattarai, Cosimo Persia, Ana Ozaki, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Jivitesh Sharma, Verifying Properties of Tsetlin Machines.

5.2  (11.55 am – 12.20 pm) Ole Gunvaldsen, Henning Blomfeldt Thorsen, Per-Arne Andersen, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Morten Goodwin, Towards IoT Anomaly Detection with Tsetlin Machines.

5.3  (12.20 pm – 12.45 pm) Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Per-Arne Andersen, Lei Jiao, Xuan Zhang, Christian Blakely, Geir Thore Berge and Tor Tveit, Learning Minimalistic Tsetlin Machine Clauses with Markov Boundary-Guided Pruning.

12:45 pm: Lunch & break

2:00 pm: Industrial Speaker Dr Khaldoon Al-Naimi, Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge, UK
(45 minutes followed by questions and answers)

3:00 pm: Coffee

3:15 pm – 4.30 pm: Research Forum and Demo Session

Session Chair: Dr Per-Arne Andersen

6.1  (3.15 pm – 3.40 pm) Svein Anders Tunheim, Lei Jiao and Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Model Export for the Convolutional Coalesced Tsetlin Machine

6.2  (3.40 pm – 4.05 pm) Tousif Rahman, Matador: Automated Data Bandwidth Driven Logic Based Inference

6.3  (4.05 pm – 4.30 pm) Anatoliy Gorbenko, Visualising Learning Processes of Multi-layer Tsetlin Machine

4:30 pm: Awards and Closing Ceremony

  • Best student paper award
  • Best overall paper award
  • Conclusions by the General Chair and Welcome to ISTM2024!