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At the end of the first day, we will have an opening reception at the city hall of Leiden. The city councillor of Economy, Knowledge, Sports and Health Wietske Veltman will give an introductory speech, after which we will be served some drinks and bites.

IDA 2026 will take place in Leiden, Netherlands, 22-24 April 2026

IDA 2026 will take place in Leiden, Netherlands, 22-24 April 2026

IDA aims to be an accessible symposium by keeping the registration fees low. Moreover, it traditionally encourages students to participate in the symposium and therefore offers special student rates. The early registration deadline is March 7.

Geschrokken van het extreem hoge waterverbruik onder de wereldbevolking hebben de grote technologiebedrijven vandaag gewaarschuwd dat we zonder kunstmatige intelligentie komen te zitten als mensen in dit tempo water blijven drinken.

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong performance on Theory of Mind (ToM) tests, prompting debate about the nature and true performance of the underlying capabilities. At the same ti...

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New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…

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We investigate whether synthetic question-answer (QA) data generated by large language models (LLMs) can serve as an effective proxy for human-labeled benchmarks when such data is unavailable. We asse...

Agentic AI will suck up data, make decisions, and take action for us. But isn’t that what software was always supposed to do?

There is great interest in agentic LLMs, large language models that act as agents. We review the growing body of work in this area and provide a research agenda. Agentic LLMs are LLMs that (1) reason,...

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