Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Explainable AI, scalable probabilistic inference and learning, probabilistic programming, statistical relational learning, commonsence reasoning, automated planning, and unifying logic and probability more generally.
Qualifications
2012, PhD, RWTH Aachen University.
2008, MS, University of Trento.
2008, MS, RWTH Aachen University.
Biography
Vaishak Belle is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is affiliated with the School of Informatics and CISA. He was previously at KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Toronto (Canada), Aachen University of Technology (Germany) and University of Trento (Italy).
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Abnormal predicates: Learning categorical defaults from probabilistic rules
Khan, R. A. & Belle, V., 25 Feb 2025, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART. Rocha, A. P., Steels, L. & van den Herik, H. J. (eds.). SCITEPRESS, Vol. 3. p. 892-900 9 p. (ICAART).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Semantic objective functions: A distribution-aware method for adding logical constraints in deep learning
Mendez-Lucero, M. A., Gallardo, E. B. & Belle, V., 25 Feb 2025, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART. Rocha, A. P., Steels, L. & van den Herik, H. J. (eds.). SCITEPRESS, Vol. 3. p. 909-917 9 p. (ICAART).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Towards developing ethical reasoners: Integrating probabilistic reasoning and decision-making for complex AI systems
Upreti, N., Ciupa, J. & Belle, V., 25 Feb 2025, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART. Rocha, A. P., Steels, L. & van den Herik, H. J. (eds.). SCITEPRESS, Vol. 1. p. 588-599 12 p. (ICAART).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Tractable generative modelling of cosmological numerical simulations
Parag, A. & Belle, V., 25 Feb 2025, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART. Rocha, A. P., Steels, L. & van den Herik, H. J. (eds.). SCITEPRESS, Vol. 3. p. 901-908 8 p. (ICAART).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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A propositional encoding for first-order clausal entailment over infinitely many constants
Belle, V., 19 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Symbolic Computation. 130, p. 1-20 20 p., 102434.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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18th Edition of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence
Belle, V. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
21 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Artificial Intelligence (Journal)
Belle, V. (Editor), Bolander, T. (Editor), Herzig, A. (Editor) & Nebel, B. (Editor)
21 Dec 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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AIUK 2022
Hemment, D. (Speaker), Vidmar, M. (Speaker), Panas, D. (Speaker), Camara Leret, I. (Speaker), Fefegha, L. (Speaker), Easton, E. (Speaker), Belle, V. (Speaker), Harvey, A. (Speaker), Walsh, M. (Contributor), Sarimento, D. (Contributor), Koppel, K. (Contributor), Mackinnon, S. (Contributor) & Fooshee, J. A. (Contributor)
23 Mar 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Experiential AI: Entanglements – Fair, Moral and Transparent AI
Hemment, D. (Speaker), Murray-Rust, D. (Speaker), Pschetz, L. (Speaker) & Belle, V. (Speaker)
8 Sept 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Talk: Experiential AI
Hemment, D. (Speaker), Murray-Rust, D. (Speaker), Pschetz, L. (Speaker) & Belle, V. (Speaker)
19 May 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
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Best Paper Award
Li, X. (Recipient), Belle, V. (Recipient) & Ross, B. (Recipient), 22 Sept 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Understanding and Improving the Behaviour of AI Agents in Competitive and Cooperative Games
Miceli Barone, A. (Principal Investigator), Belle, V. (Co-investigator) & Cohen, S. (Co-investigator)
5/02/25 → 4/02/26
Project: Research
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Efficient Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Logical Models: Open-World Modelling and Neurosymbolic AI
Belle, V. (Principal Investigator)
20/01/25 → 19/01/28
Project: Research
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Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem
Vallor, S. (Principal Investigator), Belle, V. (Co-investigator), Bhuta, N. (Co-investigator), Hood, B. (Co-investigator), Luger, E. (Co-investigator), Luger, E. (Co-investigator) & Sethi, N. (Co-investigator)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
14/11/22 → 13/11/28
Project: Research
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The New Real � Trust and acceptance in networked, online experiences to enable and support post-COVID19 recovery
Belle, V. (Principal Investigator), Currie, M. (Co-investigator) & Hill, R. (Co-investigator)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/01/21 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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The New Real ¿ Trust and acceptance in networked, online experiences to enable and support post-COVID19 recovery
Belle, V. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/21 → 31/10/22
Project: Research