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!