The European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence
6 - 10 July 2026, Vienna, Austria
serra Prater-Riesenrad Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna, Austria) vienna

Program Overview

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Program Details (Preliminary)

Session 1 (9:00-10:30)
Monday-Thursday
(Long Courses)
Friday
(Short Tutorials)
Rooms
Trustworthy AI TBA EI 2 Pichelmayer
Introduction to Constraint Satisfaction EI 5 Hochenegg
Multi-Perspective Reasoning in Knowledge Representation: An Introduction to Standpoint Logic EI 8 Pötzl
Learning Deep Low-dimensional Models from High-Dimensional Data: From Theory to Practice EI 9 Hlawka
Uncertainty in Machine Learning: From Aleatoric to Epistemic EI 10 Fritz Paschke
Logic meets Learning EI 11 Geodäsie
Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)
Session 2 (11:00-12:30)
Monday
(Short Tutorials)
Tuesday-Friday
(Long Courses)
Rooms   
TBA Knowledge Compilation: Theory, Practice, and Applications EI 2 Pichelmayer
The Art of Compressing LLMs: Pruning, Distillation, and Quantization Demystified EI 5 Hochenegg
Recurrent GNNs: The Power of Iteration EI 8 Pötzl
AI for Autonomous Robots: Bridging Theory and Practice EI 9 Hlawka
Wikidata: A backbone for Hybrid/Bilateral AI EI 10 Fritz Paschke
Beyond Breakpoints: AI for Software Fault Localization EI 11 Geodäsie
Lunch Break (12:30-14:00)
Session 3 (14:00-15:30)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
(Long Courses)
Rooms   
Why Is Symbolic Reasoning Computationally Hard? EI 2 Pichelmayer
Data Driven Approaches in (Multi-objective) Bayesian Optimisation EI 5 Hochenegg
Trustworthy Machine Learning from Data to Models EI 8 Pötzl
Reward and Constraint Learning: Foundations for Human-AI Alignment EI 9 Hlawka
Foundations of Concept-Based Interpretable Deep Learning EI 10 Fritz Paschke
Recommender Systems: Past, Present, and Future (Challenges) EI 11 Geodäsie
Cofee Break (15:30-16:00)
Session 4 (16:00-17:30)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
(Long Courses)
Rooms   
AI for Fair and Transparent Decision-Making from Legal and Technical Perspectives EI 2 Pichelmayer
Modern Constraint Programming EI 5 Hochenegg
Decision trees: from efficient prediction to responsible AI EI 8 Pötzl
Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning EI 9 Hlawka
Tractable Circuits: A Common Language for Logic, Probability, and Neural Models EI 10 Fritz Paschke
From In-Context Learning to Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Large Reasoning Models EI 11 Geodäsie
Further Events
Monday Tuesday Thursday
19:00-22:00
Reception at Rathaus
18:00-19:00
Keynote speech: TBA
13:45 - 15:00 Short Tutorials
(to be announced)
15:00 - 16:00 Transfer to WU
16:00 - 17:00 Keynote speech: TBA
17:00 - 20:00 Networking Event
Social Program

The social program of ESSAI 2026 will include multiple activies for networking and relaxation.

Reception at the City Hall (Wiener Rathaus)
A reception at the City Hall is planned on July 6.

Wien Rathaus hochauflösend.jpg
Photo by Thomas Ledl - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

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