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Heuristic Recognition and Rapid Response to Unfamiliar Events Outside of Agent Design Scope
Wray, R. E., Jones, S. J., & Laird, J. E. (2025). Heuristic Recognition and Rapid Response to Unfamiliar Events Outside of Agent Design Scope (arXiv:2504.12497). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.12497
2025 Soar Workshop
The 2025 Soar Workshop will be on 5 May. The meeting will be hybrid with on-site at the University of Michigan Beyster Building, North Campus, in Ann Arbor, MI, and remote on Zoom. We expect the workshop to run from approximately 9-5 ET, although the specific time...
Eliciting Problem Specifications via Large Language Models
Wray, R. E., Kirk, J. R., & Laird, J. E. (2024). Eliciting Problem Specifications via Large Language Models. Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference. Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference, Palermo. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12147
Toward Constraint Compliant Goal Formulation and Planning
Jones, S. J., & Wray, R. E. (2024). Toward Constraint Compliant Goal Formulation and Planning. Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference. Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference, Palermo. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12862
2024 Soar Workshop (29 May)
This year’s Soar workshop will be held on May 29th, 2024, at the University of Michigan’s Beyster Building on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. It will be a hybrid workshop, and as in the past, it is free. Please considering participating! The opportunity to present a...
Improving Knowledge Extraction from LLMs for Task Learning through Agent Analysis
Kirk, James R., Wray, R. E., Lindes, P., Laird, J. E. (2024). Improving Knowledge Extraction from LLMs for Task Learning through Agent Analysis. Proceedings of the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver. Conference paper with additional...
Nathan Glenn joins the CIC!
The Center for Integrated Cognition is pleased to announce that Nathan Glenn has joined the CIC as a software engineer. Nathan's expertise in AI, computational linguistics, and Soar will be a tremendous asset to the CIC going forward. Welcome, Nathan!
2023 Soar Workshop (14-15 Jun)
The 2023 Soar workshop will be held on June 14 & 15. The workshop will be hosted in a hybrid in-person/virtual format from the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. Guest speakers for the Soar Workshop are: Dr. Melanie Mitchell...
Computational-level Analysis of Constraint Compliance for General Intelligence
Wray, R. E., Jones, S.J., & Laird, J. E. (2023). Computational-level Analysis of Constraint Compliance for General Intelligence. Proceedings of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Conferences. Artificial General Intelligence, Stockholm/Virtual....
Integrating Diverse Knowledge Sources for Online One-shot Learning of Novel Tasks
We have written a paper, now on arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09554), that describes how we are integrating large-language models into Interactive Task Learning (ITL), where agents can learn new tasks thru interactive instruction. The paper outlines the role of...