Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning

(MAR)

In Conjunction with the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025

San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA

December 6 or 7, 2025

About MAR 2025

About MAR 2025

In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers working in neural algorithmic learning, multimodal reasoning, and cognitive models of intelligence to showcase their cutting-edge research, discuss the latest challenges, as well as bring to the forefront problems in perception and language modeling that are often overlooked but are pivotal in achieving true artificial general intelligence. An emphasis of this workshop is on the emerging topic of multimodal algorithmic reasoning, where a reasoning agent is required to automatically deduce new algorithms/procedures for solving real-world tasks, e.g., algorithms that use multimodal foundational models for analysis, synthesis, and planning, new approaches towards solving challenging vision-and-language mathematical (Olympiad type) reasoning problems, deriving winning strategies in multimodal games, procedures for using tools in robotic manipulation, etc. We hope to deep dive into this exciting topic at the intersection of multimodal learning and cognitive science to understand what we have achieved thus far in machine intelligence and what we are lacking in relation to the human way of thinking -- through talks from outstanding researchers and faculty that could inspire the audience to search for the missing rungs on the ladder to true intelligence.

Where

San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA

When

December 6 or 7, 2025

Keynote Speakers

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Yejin Choi

Yejin Choi

Stanford University & NVIDIA

Subbarao Kambhampati

Subbarao Kambhampati

Arizona State University

Yu Cheng

Yu Cheng

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Noah Goodman

Noah Goodman

Stanford University

MAR 2025 Schedule

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Submissions

[More info about the call for papers will be updated here]

MAR 2025 Venue

San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA

MAR 2025 will be held at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA on December 6 or 7, 2025.

Sponsor

Organizers

[Contact Email: smart101@googlegroups.com]

Anoop Cherian

Anoop Cherian

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Kuan-Chuan Peng

Kuan-Chuan Peng

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Suhas Lohit

Suhas Lohit

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Honglu Zhou

Honglu Zhou

Salesforce AI Research