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Session I (Morning)

Speakers

09:00-09:10 am Session: Opening Remarks Wenhao Yu
09:10 - 09:50 am Keynote talk 1 by Prof. Doug Downey: Deep Research Systems for Science: Challenges and Opportunities [slides]
Doug Downey
09:50 - 10:30 am Keynote talk 2 by Prof. Graham Neubig: LLM Agents that Learn from Experience [slides]
Graham Neubig
10:30 - 11:30 am Poster Session (including coffee break)
11:30 - 12:05 pm Industry talk 3 by Dr. Yunyao Li: Building & Querying Enterprise Knowledge Bases: From Declarative Languages to GenAI [slides]
Yunyao Li
12:05 - 12:40 pm Industry talk 4 by Dr. Hongming Zhang: From RAG to Proactive Agents [slides]
Hongming Zhang

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Session II (Afternoon)

Speakers

14:20 - 15:00 pm Keynote talk 6 by Prof. Manling Li: From Large Language Models to Large Agent Models: Reasoning Agent with World Knowledge [slides]
Manling Li
15:00 - 15:30 pm Oral presentations
Talk 1: Hybrid AI for Responsive Multi-Turn Online Conversations with Novel Dynamic Routing and Feedback Adaptation [paper]
Talk 2: RouteNator: A Router-Based Multi-Modal Architecture for Generating Synthetic Training Data for Function Calling LLMs [paper]
Talk 3: PROPEL: Prompt Optimization with Expert Priors for Small and Medium-sized LLMs [paper]
15:30 - 16:00 pm Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 pm Oral presentations
Talk 4: OctoTools: An Agentic Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning [paper]
Talk 5: KG-LLM-Bench: A Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Reasoning on Textualized Knowledge Graphs [paper]
16:30 - 16:35 pm Final Remarks Wenhao Yu