Western Bioinformatics Research Seminar Series

Presentation Title: Can LLMs Achieve Causal Reasoning and Cooperation?

Speaker Name: Zhijing Jin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Toronto
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute, Germany
CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute

Learning objectives:

  • Evaluating the emergent causal reasoning capabilities and limitations of modern LLMs across diverse domains.
  • Enhancing LLMs causal inference by guiding them through structured, step by step formal methodologies.
  • Exploring how individual causality scales to group outcomes and whether LLMs learn cooperation in multi-agent simulations.