“Core-AI 2026” Thematic School
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Launch of the Core-AI 2026 Thematic School, a series of seminars and mini-courses funded by the COLORS Long-Term Thematic Project and dedicated to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, bringing together leading international researchers.
Audience: doctoral students , postdoctoral researchers, engineers, researchers, Professors, and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the fundamentals of AI.

Program
March
- March 11 — Nirupam Gupta (University of Copenhagen)
Robustness, Privacy, and Fairness in Distributed Learning
(co-organized by ML-MTP) – LIRMM Seminar Room, Building 4 – 4:00 p.m. - March 17 — Arnak Dalalyan (CREST – ENSAE)
Generative Models and GAN Theory – LIRMM Seminar Room, Building 4 – 4:00 p.m. - March 25 — Axel Ngonga Ngomo (University of Leipzig)
Knowledge Graphs – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St. Priest – 3:00 p.m.
April
- April 1 — Marie-Jeanne Lesot (LIP6, Sorbonne University)
Explainable AI: Methods and Risks – LIRMM Seminar Room, Building 4 – 4:00 p.m. - April 9 — Hadrien Hendrikx (Inria Grenoble)
Distributed Optimization
(co-organized by ML-MTP) – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St Priest – 4:00 p.m. - April 15–16 — Mini-course (2 half-days)
, Dino Ienco & Giuseppe Guarino (INRAE Montpellier)
Semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St Priest – 4:00 p.m.
May
- May 6 — Céline Robardet (INSA Lyon)
: Understanding and Explaining Graph Neural Networks – Jean-Jacques Moreau Lecture Hall, Building 2, St Priest – 4:00 p.m. - May 13 — Gérard Biau (Sorbonne University – French Academy of Sciences)
-Learning with Physical Constraints (PINNs, Physics-Informed Kernel Learning)
(session subject to extension) – Peytavin Lecture Hall at Polytech – 4:00 p.m.
About Core-AI
Core-AI highlights the fundamental principles, theoretical methods, and methodological approaches that underpin modern artificial intelligence.
The school offers a well-rounded science curriculum covering:
- Learning Theory
- Reliability and trust
- Distributed deep learning
- Generative models and kernels
- Large-scale data structures (graphs, computer vision, remote sensing)
- Explainability and Responsible AI
For more information, as well as to view the school’s other dates and events, please refer to the registration form.
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