Workshop on Frugality and Explainability (Toulouse)

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (Campus Rangueil)

Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

Campus Rangueil

118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
Chloe Braud (IRIT - UT - CNRS), Jose G Moreno (Université de Toulouse), Josiane Mothe (Univ. Toulouse)
Description

This workshop is part of the CIMI 2026 thematic trimester on “Low-Resource Settings in AI”. The goal of this trimester is to deepen our understanding of AI models—particularly pre-trained neural models such as language, vision, and multimodal models—under conditions of severe data or computational constraints.

During this workshop, we will focus in particular on models and systems developed with computational frugality constraints, as well as on issues of model explainability for text and images.

The workshop will feature presentations by international guests and researchers from Toulouse, as well as tutorials. The full program will be available soon on the website, but we are pleased to confirm the participation of our distinguished guests:

 

The workshop will also feature 3 tutorials:

 

Participation in the workshop is free, but registration is required so that we can better assess our organizational needs.

 

Important dates: 

  • September, 3: Deadline for student grant application
  • September, 18: Deadline for registration and presentation proposals
  • October 6-9: Workshop - University of Toulouse campus
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    • 12:45 13:45
      Welcome Coffee 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 13:45 14:00
      Opening Remarks Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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      Présidents de session: Chloe Braud (IRIT - UT - CNRS), Jose G Moreno (Université de Toulouse), Josiane Mothe (Univ. Toulouse)
    • 14:00 15:00
      Invited Talk: Adil Zouitine 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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      TBA

    • 15:00 16:00
      Presentations Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 16:30 17:30
      Tutorial: Adil Zouitine - Title TBA Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 09:30 10:30
      Invited Talk: Alexandre Allauzen 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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      TBA

    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 11:00 12:00
      Presentations: TBA Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch - Esplanade 2h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 14:00 15:00
      Invited Talk: Ronan Sicre and Moncef Garouani 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 15:00 16:00
      Tutorial: Ronan Sicre and Moncef Garouani - Explainability Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 16:30 17:30
      Tutorial: Ronan Sicre and Moncef Garouani - Explainability Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      Campus Rangueil

      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 09:30 10:30
      Invited Talk: Meriem Belloucif 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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      TBA

    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 11:00 12:00
      Presentations: TBA Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch - Esplanade 2h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 14:00 15:00
      Invited Talk: Antonin Poché 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 15:00 16:00
      Tutorial: Antonin Poché - Explainability Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 16:30 17:30
      Tutorial: Antonin Poché - Explainability Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 18:00 19:30
      Cocktail 1h 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 09:30 10:30
      Invited Talk: Didier Schwab 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1

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      118 Route de Narbonne 31000 Toulouse
    • 11:00 12:00
      Invited Talk: Lihu Chen - Knowledge Boundary Awareness in Large Language Models 1h Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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      Title: Knowledge Boundary Awareness in Large Language Models

      Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) possess remarkable knowledge and reasoning capabilities, yet their capabilities are bounded. A fundamental challenge for trustworthy and efficient AI is enabling models to identify the limits of their own knowledge before producing an answer. In this talk, I will present our recent work on knowledge boundary awareness, a generation-free framework for estimating whether an LLM can answer a query. I will then discuss how knowledge boundary awareness helps build more efficient AI systems by reducing inference cost while maintaining the original performance.

      Bio: Lihu Chen is a Research Associate at Imperial College London. He received his Ph.D. from Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and previously held a postdoctoral position at Inria Saclay. His research focuses on natural language processing and large language models, with interests in trustworthy and efficient AI, information extraction, and biomedical NLP. He develops open-source models and tools to improve the reliability and efficiency of AI systems.

      Orateur: Lihu Chen
    • 12:00 12:30
      Closing Remarks Amphithéâtre Schwartz - 1R1 (campus Rangueil)

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      Présidents de session: Chloe Braud (IRIT - UT - CNRS), Jose G Moreno (Université de Toulouse), Josiane Mothe (Univ. Toulouse)