Graduate Student Seminar

13:00-13:30 Displacement-Resistant Extensions of DPO with Nonconvex f-Divergences

• Idan Pipano
• Bloomfield 527

11:00-11:30 Liberating from Correlations: An Interventional Benchmark for Concept-Based Explanations

• Gilat Toker
• Bloomfield 527

11:00-11:30 The Phenomenon of Non Standard Employment in Israel

• Reayah Engle
• Haifa University, Room 7052

11:30-12:30 From Prediction to Intervention: Causal Inference in Time-to-Event and Time-Series Data

• Tomer Meir
• Bloomfield 113

10:00-10:30 Modeling Time Series Regression with Multiple Disruption Events

• Naomi Derel
• Statistics Lab, Cooper Building 2ed Floor

17:00-18:00 From Euler to AI: Unifying Formulas for Mathematical Constants

• Tomer Raz
• ZOOM

12:00-13:00 Gaussian See, Gaussian Do: Semantic 3D Motion Transfer from Multiview Video

• Yarin Bekor
• Taub 401

10:30-11:00 Age and Creativity: Exploring the Ability to Break Creative Impasse and How Age Affects this Ability

• Ekaterina Superfin
• The Cognitive Complexity Lab, Lady Davis, Room 106

11:00-11:30 Predicting and Analyzing High-Level Cognitive Traits Using Computational Multiplex Networks and Vector Representations

• Ofir Ganor
• The Cognitive Complexity Lab, Lady Davis, Room 106

13:00-13:30 Using Large Language Models to Predict Human Choice from Textual Description

• Eyal Marantz
• Bloomfield, Room 112

09:00-09:30 Surgical Ergonomics in Simulation: A Motion-Sensor–Based Study

• Lama Wattad
• Zoom

16:00-16:30 Exploring in the Dark: Pure Exploration for POMDPs

• Yonatan Ashlag
• Zissapel 506

11:00-12:00 Bridging Online Behavior and Clinical Insight: A Longitudinal LLM-based Study of Suicidality on YouTube Reveals Novel Digital Markers

• Ilanit Sobol
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-14:00 Hands-On AI: Robust Hands Detection and Explainable Assessment of Surgical Suturing Using 3D Hands Reconstruction

• Roi Papo
• Scalpel lab, Lady Davis, 0 floor, room 105

13:00-13:30 Between the Layers Lies the Truth: Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs using Intra-Layer Local Information Scores

• Zvi Badash
• BME 201, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering

11:45-12:15 Context Assisted Matching

• Noam Zel
• Taub 337

11:15-12:00 CoWWLa-EM: Confidence Weighting of Weakly Labelled data for Entity Matching

• Yair Zissu
• Taub 337

10:00-11:00 Graph Representation Learning for Data Betterment

• Bar Genossar
• Taub 337

09:00-09:30 Contrastive Learning for Multi-Modal Medical Imaging

• Eyal Finkelshtein
• Bloomfield 526

11:30-12:30 Uniqueness and Longtime Behavior of the Completely Positively Correlated Symbiotic Branching Model

• Eran Avneri
• Meyer 861

13:00-13:30 Influence of the present bias in making purchase decisions

• Hila Brameli
• Bloomfield 424

11:00-11:45 Liberty: an Interventional Benchmark for Concept-Based Explanation Methods in NLP

• Gilat Toker
• Bloomfield 526

11:00-11:30 Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Learning Shadow Variables in Combinatorial Optimization Problems

• Ariel Abramowitz
• Zoom

12:30-13:00 How do financial crises affect economic perceptions? The 2008 financial crisis as a Case Study

• Ella Yakov
• Bloomfield 424 and Zoom

13:00-13:30 Multi-Cohort Framework with Cohort-Aware Attention and Adversarial Mutual-Information Minimization for Whole Slide Image Classification

• Sharon Peled
• Bloomfield 424 and Zoom

12:30-13:00 Blackwell's Approachability with Approximation Algorithms

• Mhna Massalha
• ZOOM

12:30-13:00 Finding minimal separators with small cardinality in graphs

• Einan Regev
• Bloomfield 424

11:00-12:00 Fine-Grained Factual Inconsistency Detection: Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models

• Yehonatan Peisakhovsky
• Bloomfield 526

12:30-13:00 Efficient Learning on Large Graphs using a Densifying Regularity Lemma

• Jonathan Kouchly
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 Deep Learning for approximating solutions to hard computational problems indirectly

• Yuval Kaner
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 On the Merits of LLM-Based Corpus Enrichment

• Gal Zur
• Zoom

12:30-13:00 Enumeration of Minimal Hitting Sets on Bounded Treewidth Hypergraphs: From Theory to Practice

• Dan Mizrahi
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 6D Dental Pose Estimation for AR-Assisted Craniofacial Surgery

• Dolev Chen
• SCALPEL Lab, 1st Floor, Lady Davis Building

11:00-11:30 Enhancing Open-Surgery Gesture Recognition Using 3D Pose Estimation

• Ori Meiraz
• Lady Davis 105

08:30-09:00 Predicting RAG Performance for Text Completion

• Oz Huly
• Zoom

09:00-09:30 Multimodal Emotion Diarization: Frame-Wise Integration of Text and Audio Representations

• Ziv Tamir
• Zoom

09:30-10:00 Query reduction and old retrieval methods meet RAG

• Idan Pogrebinsky
• Zoom

12:30-13:00 GNN-based text representations for Style-focused Personalized LLM's

• Omer Vered
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 Analysis of the Randomized Hadamard Transform

• Tomer Zilca
• Bloomfield 526

12:00-12:30 Trap Sampling with Applications in DoS Attack Detection

• Ilai Avni
• Bloomfield 526

13:00-13:30 AI-Driven Research and Trait Aware Representations of Medical Diagnostics

• Tal Ifargan
• Auditorium, Faculty of Biology

11:00-11:30 Towards Hybrid Traffic Laws for Mixed Flow of Human-driven Vehicles and Connected Autonomous Vehicles

• Tal Kraicer
• Cooper 300

14:00-14:30 Unsupervised Translation of Emergent Communication

• Ido Levy
• Taub 601

10:00-10:30 Analyzing semantic dynamics in a quest for truth discovery

• Olga Light
• Lib 3 - Library

11:30-12:00 Coordinate Flow for Implicit Neural Representation Video Compression

• Daniel Silver
• Taub 601

12:30-13:00 Typical Interpolating Neural Nets Generalize Well and Exhibit Tempered Overfitting with Narrow Teachers

• Itamar Harel
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Prompt-driven llm-agents for content modification in ranking competitions

• Niv Bardas
• Zoom

09:00-10:00 Startup Portfolio Management

• Denis Solan
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 First-Order Methods for Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization

• Ido Iutcu
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Algorithms for Structured Simple Bilevel Problems

• Daniel Engel
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 The Power of Letting Go: Scheduling, Rejections and Controlled Abandonments in Multi-Server Queues

• Arsenii Shmelev
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:30 Towards Transforming Free Natural Language Text to Conceptual Models with Generative AI

• Yuliya Saksonski
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Computational Modeling of Eye Movements in Reading Across Multiple Regimes – Theory and Practice

• Yoav Meiri
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 SLACE: A Monotone and Balance-Sensitive Loss Function for Ordinal Regression

• Inbar Nachmani
• Bloomfield 424

13:00-13:30 Decoding Reading Goals from Eye Movements

• Kfir Hadar
• Bloomfield 424

12:30-13:00 CharPDM: Characterized Prompt-oriented Document Melioration (for SEO) – “Seize your text!”

• Niv Bardas

13:00-13:30 Efficient Computer Vision Pipeline for Automated Anesthetic Injection Documentation

• Amit Nissan
• ZOOM

13:30-14:00 AdaptiVocab Personalized LLM Vocabulary For Your Data

• Itay Nakash
• ZOOM

12:30-13:30 Social welfare, Fairness and incentives in Divisible Participatory Budgeting

• Jonathan Wagner
• Bloomfield 527

13:00-14:00 Enhancing User Understanding of Reinforcement Learning Agents Through Visual Explanations

• Yotam Amitai
• Zoom