SS DSAA 2025, ‘Collaborative AI: Advancing Federated Learning Across Disciplines’ - deadline approaching

[Frank-Michael Schleif]

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interested, thanks! *
 
DSAA 2025 SPECIAL SESSION
‘Collaborative AI: Advancing Federated Learning Across Disciplines’
09 - 13 October 2025, Birmingham, UK
https://dsaa.ieee.org/2025
 
 
This special session explores federated machine learning in increasingly
complex distributed environments. As data becomes distributed among numerous users and cannot
be centrally collected due to privacy constraints, new challenges emerge. These include
learning in heterogeneous systems, effective communication for model updates, and
representation of distributed models. We focus on federated learning variants, model
compression, adaptive aggregation techniques, and privacy preservation approaches including
differential privacy. The session encourages research on deep learning applications in federated
contexts, particularly in IoT, recommendation systems, medicine, automotive, sensor
networks, and text processing, with emphasis on balancing privacy, efficiency, and
performance.
 
AIMS AND SCOPE
 
We particularly welcome submissions that bridge research communities and
foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Our special session seeks papers
presenting novel methods at the intersection of federated learning, distributed intelligence,
computational intelligence, and machine learning that promote dialogue across traditional research
boundaries.

Topics include but are not limited to:

● Learning in heterogeneous and distributed systems
● Effective communication protocols for model updates in federated
environments
● Model compression and adaptive model aggregation techniques
● Representation learning and distributed model architectures
● Approximation methods for distributed data analysis
● Federated learning algorithms and variants (Split learning, Gossip
Learning,
decentralized approaches)
● Shapley value attribution and Shapley interactions for model
interpretation in
federated settings
● Multi-modality and multi-view approaches in federated learning
● Security and privacy preservation in federated environments
● Differential privacy techniques for federated systems
● Applications of deep learning in federated contexts
● Resource-efficient federated learning for constrained environments
● Data analysis and pattern recognition approaches for non-stationary and
distributed
environments
 
Deadline: 02.05.2025 (everywhere on earth)
Submission via:
https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/DSAA/2025
 
SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS
Frank-Michael Schleif, Technical UAS Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany
Mirko Polato, Università di Torino, Italy
Barbara Hammer, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Manuel Röder, Technical UAS Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany

[Ludovico Montalcini]

Call for Participation & Call for Papers
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The 5th International Advanced *Course* & *Symposium* on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 21-24, 2025, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy

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Symposium Deadline:
Paper Submission (Symposium): by May 23 (AoE)
https://acain2025.icas.events/symposium-call-for-papers/
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2025
 
Course Deadline:
Regular Registration (Course): by May 23 (AoE)
https://acain2025.icas.events/course-description/
https://acain2025.icas.events/registration/

https://2025.iaiss.cc/deadlines/

LECTURERS:
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Jose Principe, University of Florida, USA
Maneesh Sahani, University College London, UK
Jonathon Shlens,  Google DeepMind, USA
Dimitra Thomaidou, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Greece
Marina Vidaki,  University of Crete, Medical School, Crete, Greece

More Speakers TBA

https://acain2025.icas.events/course-lecturers/


SCOPE & MOTIVATION:
ACAIN: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

The ACAIN symposium and course is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields of AI, Neuroscience, Neuroscience-Inspired AI, Human-Level AI, and Cognitive Science.

The Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence  & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion four-day  Course and Symposium in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial and productive environment.

Two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (September 23-24), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 21-22).

Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on continuous synergy, exchange, collaboration and efficient cooperation between the two research communities.  These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium - ACAIN, which is aimed both  at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI.  ACAIN accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

The Advanced Course is suited  for scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders.

The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event.

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list, confirmed members):
https://acain2025.icas.events/program-committee/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
https://acain2025.icas.events/symposium-committee/

VENUE & ACCOMMODATION:
https://acain2025.icas.events/venue/

ACAIN is a *Residential Conference*, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed.

Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
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ACTIVITIES:
https://acain2025.icas.events/activities/

REGISTRATION:
https://acain2025.icas.events/registration/

See you in Tuscany in September!                    
             ACAIN Organizing Committee.

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Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation & Call for Papers, to have complete and updated information we recommend you access the relevant website: https://acain2025.icas.events