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Breaking Topics in AI Conference 2025

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Time: 09.00 – 17.30

Date: 24 November 2025

Location: Lecture Theatre 608 A+B | I-X Level 6, I-HUB | White City Campus

84 Wood Lane, London W12 7RZ

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If you have any questions, please contact Andreas Joergensen or Eileen Boyce.

09:30 - 17:30
24/11/2025
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Speakers

Talk Summary

We are excited to invite you to the third edition of the Breaking Topics in AI Conference 2025, supported by the I-X AI in Science Centre.

The conference, this year bringing speakers from NeurIPS and ICML to London, will serve as a platform for sharing cutting-edge knowledge, discussing emerging trends, and fostering collaborative efforts to advance the field further. Our speakers will give overview talks outlining what they consider to be the exciting breakthroughs and future challenges in their area. The conference will also feature Flash Talks and Research Poster competitions.

The confirmed speakers so far:

Agenda

09:00 – 09:20 Registration 

09:20 – 09:30 Opening Remarks
Professor Sophia Yaliraki, Imperial

09:30 – 10:30 AI Deep Dive Session | Two Focus Talks
Chair: Sophia Yaliraki 

Tolga Birdal, Imperial: Topological Deep Learning: A New Hope for Molecular Modelling and 3D Vision

Paula Cordero Encinar, Imperial: Sampling by Averaging: A Multiscale Approach to Score Estimation

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee Break 

11:00 – 12:00  Flash Talk Session | Five 10-Minute Flash Talks
Chair: Ben Moseley 

Kevin Han Huang, University College London: Diagonal Symmetrization of Neural Network Solvers for the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation

Cristiana Diaconu, University of Cambridge: Gridded Transformer Neural Processes for Spatio-Temporal Data 

Hugh Dance, University College London: Efficiently Vectorized MCMC on Modern Accelerators 

Yedi Zhang, University College London: Training Dynamics of In-Context Learning in Linear Attention

Lisa Alazraki, Imperial: Reverse Engineering Human Preferences with Reinforcement Learning

12:00 – 13:00  Lunch and Poster Session

13:00 – 14:00  AI Deep Dive Session | Two Focus Talks
Chair: Laura M. Helleckes

Naoki Kiyohara, Imperial: Neural Stochastic Flows: Solver-Free Modelling and Inference for SDE Solutions 

Lauri Laatu, Imperial: Sub-Microsecond Transformers for Jet Tagging on FPGAs

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break 

14:30 – 15:30  Flash Talk Session | Five 10-Minute Flash Talks
Chair: Daniel Platt 

Marta Aparicio Rodriguez, Imperial: Concept Reachability in Diffusion Models 

Guiomar Pescador Barrios, Imperial: Adjusting Model Size in Continual Gaussian Processes: How Big is Big Enough? 

Jan Ole Ernst, University of Oxford: Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Control Under Physical Constraints  

Aya Kayal, University College London: Bayesian Optimization from Human Feedback: Near-Optimal Regret Bounds

Krzysztof Kacprzyk, University of Cambridge: Skip the Equations: Learning Behavior of Personalized Dynamical Systems Directly from Data 

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 

16:00 – 17:00  AI Deep Dive Session | Three Focus Talks
Chair: Nick Jones 

Eleonora Giunchiglia, Imperial: Right for the Right Reasons: Avoiding Reasoning Shortcuts via Prototype-Augmented Neurosymbolic AI 

Peter Ochieng, University of Cambridge: Diversity Is All You Need for Contrastive Learning: Spectral Bounds on Gradient Magnitudes

Georgia Channing, University of Oxford: MAD-Sherlock: Multi-Agent Debate for Visual Misinformation Detection 

17:00 – 17:10  Closing Remarks 
Professor Nick Jones, Director of I-X Centre for AI in Science, Imperial

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