Advanced Topics in Rational Intelligence: Prediction, Causation, Decision, Incentive, and Regulation All at Once

Here is the information about our next presentation: 

Topic: Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling
Presenter: Stefaniia Ovcharenko
Discussant(s): Assigned after the presentation
Date/Time: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 14:00-16:00.

The seminar will take place at CISPA C0 Room 0.07 inside the CISPA building on the university campus. See you there!

Here is the information about our next presentation: 

Topic: On Counterfactual Metrics for Social Welfare: Incentives, Ranking, and Information Asymmetry
Presenter: Abdul Ahad
Discussant(s): Assigned after the presentation
Date/Time: Thursday, May 28, 2026, 14:00-16:00.

The seminar will take place at CISPA C0 Room 0.07 inside the CISPA building on the university campus. See you there!

Under exceptional circumstances that prevent you from participating in person, you may join the seminar via the following Zoom link. 

• Zoom link: https://cispa-de.zoom-x.de/j/61914314679?pwd=15b2Qqh6hb5PUkL9rbYG63bS8EazEh.1
• Passcode: !y0c?A

Please note that this option should be used only sparingly and only under exceptional circumstances, such as illness or travel. In-person participation remains mandatory.

Hi everyone,

This is a reminder for our seminar session tomorrow.

Topic: A Review of Generalizability and Transportability
Presenter: Haniya Fatima
Discussant(s): Assigned after the presentation
Date/Time: Thursday, May 21, 2026, 14:00–16:00 (with the possibility of extending until 16:30)

The seminar will take place at CISPA C0 Room 0.07 inside the CISPA building on the university campus.

Please note that the presenter may arrive closer to 14:30 due to a prior exam. We will confirm the exact start time shortly before 14:00. In the meantime, please plan to be available from 14:00 and, if possible, keep your schedule open until 16:30.

Here is the information about our kickoff presentation: 

Topic: Collaborative Causal Inference with Fair Incentives
Presenter: Maike Kalms
Discussant(s): Assigned after the presentation
Date/Time: Friday, May 15, 2026, 16:00-18:00.

The seminar will take place at CISPA C0 Room 0.01 inside the CISPA building on the university campus.

Hi everyone, 

We have finalised the list of paper assignments and have tried our best to give every student their top preferences. Please let us know if you have any concerns

1. Maike Kalms, Collaborative Causal Inference with Fair Incentives
2. Haniya Fatima, A Review of Generalizability and Transportability
3. Abdul Ahad, On Counterfactual Metrics for Social Welfare: Incentives, Ranking, and Information Asymmetry 
4. Stefaniia Ovcharenko, Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling
5. Zirui Wang, Eliciting Human Preferences With Language Models
6. Hlib Kriukov, E-Scores for (In)Correctness Assessment of Generative Model Outputs
7. Shilpa Suresh, CausalPFN: Amortized Causal Effect Estimation via In-Context Learning
8. Timm Groß-Selbeck, Concrete Problems in AI Safety
9. János Csicsely, Possibilistic Inferential Models: A Review  
10. Saba Noorghasemi, Uncertainty Measures: The Big Picture

Regards

Krik, Gowtham, Kiet and Anurag

Hi Everyone, 

We are releasing a form to collect your preferences for paper assignment. Once again, for the full list of papers, see https://cms.cispa.saarland/atri2026/.

Please select your top five preferred papers in the form below. Incase you have any further questions, you can also write to me. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8u9LXmmkxkxRgkpCMkhgAvTGTfvFEnJWnj0GMKbYEArkhug/viewform?usp=header

Regards

Anurag Singh