October 6, 2025
Microsoft Research Montréal & Mila Workshop
Location: Montréal, Canada
October 6, 2025
Finalizing soon. Themes include agentic systems, reasoning foundations, and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics in AI).
| Theme | Time (ET) | Affiliation | Session Title | Researcher(s) Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Systems | 1:00 – 1:30 1:30 – 2:00 2:00 – 2:15 | Mila x MSR Montréal MSR Montréal MSR AI Frontiers | Interesting Questions Training and evaluating a coding agent Towards Human-Centered Agents | Xiyuan (Mila) + Eric Yuan, Senior Researcher MSR MTL ML Team Maya Murad, Senior Technical Program Manager |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Break | |||
| Reasoning foundations | 2:30 – 3:00 3:00 – 3:15 3:15 – 3:30 | Mila x MSR Montréal Mila MSR Montréal | The Markovian Thinker Shape of Thought Learning to Extract Context for Context-Aware LLM Inference | Milad (Mila) + Amir Hossein (Mila) + Kamran (Mila) Ayush (Mila) Minseon Kim, Post Doc Researcher |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Break | |||
| FATE | 4:00 – 4:30 4:30 – 5:00 | MSR Montréal Mila x MSR Montréal | Rigor in AI How Do We Know We Are Making Progress in NLP? The Evidence-Centered Benchmark Design Framework | Alexandra Olteanu, Principal Researcher + Su Lin Blodgett, Principal Researcher Jackie Chi Kit Cheung (Mila) |