The 34rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-25) took place in Montréal, Canada, from 16-22 August. The programme featured keynote talks, tutorials, workshops, competitions, and oral and poster presentations. Find out what the participants got up to during the main part of the conference. Part one of our round-up can be found here.
Cynthia Rudin addressed the squishiness of interpretability in machine learning during her winning talk as the recipient of the IJCAI 2025 McCarthy Award. #IJCAI2025 #AI
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 19 August 2025 at 19:08
The Conference Chair announces IJCAI Distinguished Papers. Congratulations to Emery Neufeld, Agata Ciabattoni, Radu Tulcan for their paper “Combining MORL with Restraining Bolts to Learn Normative Behaviour.” #Talk Aug 20@10:00 @Knowledge Representation & Reasoning #IJCAI2025
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 19 August 2025 at 20:23
Liliane-Caroline Demers, AI Hub Ambassador for the IJCAI 2025 Local Arrangements Committee and a recent master’s graduate, conducts research on AI-generated music. She presented at the 2nd Workshop on the Composite AI 🎶 Listen to her 90-sec pitch: youtube.com/watch?v=QzhS… #IJCAI2025
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 19 August 2025 at 20:17
Our 2020 paper “Using Ontologies to Enhance Human Understandability of Global Post-Hoc Explanations of Black-Box Models” with Roberto Confalonieri, Fermin Moscoso and @tarekbesold.bsky.social was given the 2025 AIJ Prominent Paper Award at #IJCAI2025 🎉.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti…— Tillman Weyde (@tweyde.bsky.social) 19 August 2025 at 18:53
Making motion capture a lot more practical:
Garment Inertial Poser estimates full-body motion from IMUs that are loosely attached to everyday clothing—no cameras, no tight straps. #IJCAI2025Talk is today in the session “Diffusion models”.
Andela Ilic @cs_jiaxi_jiang @paulstreli pic.twitter.com/Mh2LEDH3xC— Christian Holz (@cholz) August 19, 2025
#IJCAI2025 Will AI save or destroy the world? The answer doesn’t lie in the technology itself, but in the hands of those who wield it. Cynthia Rudin #AILounge pic.twitter.com/F3QxBrJhYx
— IJCAIconf (@IJCAIconf) August 20, 2025
Masatoshi Hamanaka’s RoboSax Melody Slot Machine 🎷where robots play jazz! #IJCAI2025 Drop by the AI Art Gallery in the coming days for guided tours. 2025.ijcai.org/ijcai-2025-a…
#Montreal
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 19 August 2025 at 23:43
Explaining why molecular synthesis in drug development is more mature than manual discovery. – Heng Ji, an invited talk #IJCAI2025 #Montreal #AIHealth
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 20 August 2025 at 14:15
#IJCAI2025: Early Career Spotlight: Marynel Vázquez, Yale University, delivering her invited Early Career talk: https://t.co/Ob1f7bgG5r pic.twitter.com/3dVhBaSVzG
— IJCAIconf (@IJCAIconf) August 20, 2025
#IJCAI2025 Chathurangi Shyalika, and Renjith Prasad, University of South Carolina, delivering their talk #9047: NSF-MAP: Neurosymbolic Multimodal Fusion for Robust and Interpretable Anomaly Prediction in Assembly Pipelines at the #AI4Tech session.
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 21 August 2025 at 22:22
Presented my paper at #IJCAI2025 ! @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/Jm4flS5ZHJ
— Sakib Khan Inan (@SakibInan) August 23, 2025
#Testimonial As a volunteer on the IJCAI social media team documenting for the annals of history, Elnathan Tiokou has spent the past 5 years advancing research on AI security and privacy, with a special focus on Federated Learning in sensitive data domains. #IJCAI2025
#Montreal #AIcanada
— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 21 August 2025 at 22:48
”The principle that sparked and shaped my research in the field of automated reasoning was that of tractable islands.” – Rina Dechter, 2025 IJCAI Research Excellence Award recipient @ #IJCAI2025 Award Talk #Montreal
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— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 22 August 2025 at 20:24
Excited to share the success of the #IJCAI2025 Workshop on User-Aligned Assessment of Adaptive AI Systems.
It featured invited talks from Reid Simmons, @XujieSi, and @ruqi_zhang; and a panel discussion with @r_mirsky, @Sriraam_UTD, Reid, and @XujieSi.
🌐https://t.co/AhhwUfjqMO https://t.co/17fd0M8e8n pic.twitter.com/ysq7j1mfUB
— Pulkit Verma (@pulkit_verma) August 25, 2025
Thanks to our colleague @hengjinlp for both her invited talk and this panel at @IJCAIconf #IJCAI2025 #IJCAI https://t.co/lPhyXBttNP
— Diversity in AI @ IJCAI 2025 (@DiverseInAI) August 23, 2025
How far are we from Artificial General Intelligence—and what might follow as Artificial Superintelligence? IJCAI Closing Panel opened by James Kwok, #IJCAI2025 Programe Chair.
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— IJCAIconf (@ijcai.org) 22 August 2025 at 21:06