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Lisa Zhang

7 accepted papers

2026

Effective Strategies for Teaching Machine Learning

AAAI 2026technical

As machine learning (ML) becomes integral in more disciplines, introductory courses in the field are attracting increasingly diverse audiences. Design of these introductory ML courses needs to be theoretically sound, but also intuitive, engaging, and accessible to a range of students. Effective teac

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2025

Comparing Artificial Intelligence Curricula in Canadian and US Universities

AAAI 2025technical

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has impacted the world tremendously in the last decade, causing an increased demand for accessible AI education globally. Students benefit from studying AI earlier in the curriculum; however, AI courses can require a range of prerequisites, which can be structured differ…

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2025

Model AI Assignments 2025

AAAI 2025technical

The Model AI Assignments session seeks to gather and disseminate the best assignment designs of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education community. Recognizing that assignments form the core of student learning experience, we here present abstracts of thirteen AI assignments from the 2025 session…

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2018

Learning Deep Structured Active Contours End-to-End

CVPR 2018poster

The world is covered with millions of buildings, and precisely knowing each instance's position and extents is vital to a multitude of applications. Recently, automated building footprint segmentation models have shown superior detection accuracy thanks to the usage of Convolutional Neural Networks…

2018

Neural Guided Constraint Logic Programming for Program Synthesis

NeurIPS 2018poster

Synthesizing programs using example input/outputs is a classic problem in artificial intelligence. We present a method for solving Programming By Example (PBE) problems by using a neural model to guide the search of a constraint logic programming system called miniKanren. Crucially, the neural model…

2018

Reviving and Improving Recurrent Back-Propagation

ICML 2018oral

In this paper, we revisit the recurrent back-propagation (RBP) algorithm, discuss the conditions under which it applies as well as how to satisfy them in deep neural networks. We show that RBP can be unstable and propose two variants based on conjugate gradient on the normal equations (CG-RBP) and N…