45th Soar Workshop

May 5, 2025

3270 Beyster Building, North Campus, University of Michigan

Also attended virtually via Zoom

Guest speaker: Professor Jonathan Cohen of Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Schedule

Time	Duration	Presenter(s)	Title	Links
9:00am-10:15am	75
	15	John Laird	Introductions
	15	Nathan Glenn	2025 Soar Update	pdf pptx
	15	Moritz Schmidt	Building Soar with CMake and Conan	pdf video
	15	Bob Wray	Exploring Continuous RL Algorithms for Soar-RL	pdf video
	15	Siyu Wu	From Cognitive Models to Language Models in Decision Making	video
10:15am-10:30am	15	BREAK
10:30am-12:00pm	90
	45	Jonathan Cohen	Toward an Understanding of Symbol Processing in Neural Network Architectures	pdf video
	15	Lebiere, Rosenbloom, Stocco	Panel
	30		Discussion
12:00pm-1:00pm	60	LUNCH
1:00pm-2:50pm	110
	15	John Laird	Extending the CMC with Metacognition	pdf video
	10	James Kirk	Metareasoning for Comprehensive Troubleshooting	pdf pptx video
	15	Robert Wray	Responding to Situations Outside of an Agent's Design Scope (OODS)	pdf video
	15	Steven J. Jones	How Different Sources of Knowledge Shape Normative Decision-making	pdf pptx
	20	Robert Wray	Cognitive Design Patterns and Agentic LLM Architectures	pdf
	15	Robert Wray	Soar-inspired Agentic LLM Capabilities: Hierarchical Decomposition & Knowledge Compilation	pdf
	20	Bryan Stearns	Agentic AI - Industry Definitions	pdf pptx
2:50pm-3:05pm	15	BREAK
3:05pm-5:00pm	115
	15	James Boggs	Towards Solving Visual Puzzles using Visual Knowledge Representations in Soar	pdf pptx
	15	Jim Beyer, Nathan Glenn	Integrating Soar and AI2-THOR	pdf pptx
	20	John Laird	Thor-Soar Agent Update	pdf pptx video
	15	Aaron Mininger	Adding Interactive Task Learning to Thor-Soar	pdf
	5	James Kirk	Pysoarlib Language Model Connector	pdf pptx
	15	James Kirk	Hierarchical Logic Graphs for Grounding Goals and Answering Queries	pdf pptx
	20	Peter Lindes	Soar Learning to Make Breakfast	pdf pptx
	10		Wrap-up and Discussion