Admission requirements
Enrolment is restricted to a limited number of Master students, who preferably followed other courses related to artificial intelligence (including deep learning, machine learning, optimisation, planning and scheduling, multi-agent systems and other areas of AI).
Assumed prior knowledge
It is assumed that the student has
Good knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques (see for example the content of the courses 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning' and 'Symbolic AI')
Familiarity with deep learning (see 'Introduction to Deep Learning' -- should be followed prior to this course)
Description
While in the past, performance has been the main focus of much work in artificial intelligence (AI), aspects of trustworthiness safety are increasingly recognised as similarly significant.
This seminar course on trustworthy artificial intelligence aims to develop a deeper insight into various aspects of trustworthy AI.
Students will work in groups of two on a range of topics from trustworthy artificial intelligence, which spans the robustness and verification of AI methods, including - but not restricted to - neural networks; the explainability and interpretability of the results obtained from AI algorithms; as well as bias and privacy issues in machine learning.
Each group will be assigned recently published work from the research literature, which will serve as the starting point for an in-depth investigation of a specific topic; the results of this investigation will be presented in class and compiled into a report.
This seminar will be held in collaboration with the Safety in AI Seminar at RWTH Aachen, hosted by M. Anastacio, J. Bossek, and H. Hoos (who is also at Leiden University).
Course objectives
The first lecture will be an introduction by the lecturer. Afterwards, the students will be divided into groups of two, where they will work on a certain topic.
After the course, students should be able to
understand the various topics and aspects of trustworthy artificial intelligence
critically evaluate the literature on a specific topic in-depth
apply existing methods to novel problem instances
See Bloom’s taxonomy for a further explanation of the required level of understanding per item.
Timetable
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudyMap will automatically be displayed in MyTimeTable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).
For more information, watch the video or go the the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
Mode of instruction
Seminar (content will be provided through student presentations & discussions)
Final conference (on which we will present the results to each other)
Course load
Total hours of study: 168 hrs. (= 6 EC)
The time will be divided between:
Preparing the lectures
- bi-weekly: read the paper that will be presented
- once: prepare to present a paper
Attending the lectures
Research assignments
- programming / designing experiments / report writing
Final conference, on which the results will be presented
Assessment method
A final report will be provided, accounting for the full grade. Throughout the semester, students can obtain feedback on their progress. It will be presented at the final conference.
Reading list
Recent and seminal overview papers from the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence literature.
Registration
Every student has to register for courses with the enrollment tool MyStudyMap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.
Contact
Lecturers: dr. J.N. van Rijn
Remarks
More information will be available on the dedicated website for this course, hosted on BrightSpace.