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Western Bioinformatics Research Seminar Series
- Time and date: 11:00 am -12:00pm (ET), Thursday/February 12, 2026
- Zoom link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/95296458263
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.