Projet THIRDWAVE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming research, industry, and society, with Large Language Models (LLMs) playing a central role. While LLMs excel in natural language understanding, reasoning, and content generation, they also exhibit hallucinations, security vulnerabilities, ethical concerns, and regulatory issues. These challenges are particularly critical in healthcare and education, where accuracy, reliability, and fairness are essential. Addressing these shortcomings requires AI paradigms that enhance interpretability, robustness, and compliance.  THIRDWAVE aims to establish an international, interdisciplinary network to advance LLM-driven neuro-symbolic AI, integrating symbolic AI with LLMs to create interpretable, reliable, and domain-aware systems. This approach enables AI to leverage structured knowledge, improve decision-making, and comply with domain-specific constraints, making it more applicable to real-world challenges.  The project is structured around four key objectives: O1) Understanding LLMs: Analyzing capabilities and limitations to improve performance, usability, and trustworthiness. O2) Enhancing LLMs: Improving fairness, factual accuracy, and robustness through external knowledge sources and human collaboration. O3) Advancing LLM-driven Neuro-Symbolic AI: Developing hybrid systems that combine LLMs with symbolic reasoning for structured knowledge representation and better decision support. O4) Use Cases & Evaluation: Applying LLM-driven neuro-symbolic AI in healthcare, education, geodata, and food information engineering, validating scalability and societal impact.  By fostering collaboration among AI researchers, domain experts, and industry partners, THIRDWAVE will bridge the gap between data-driven and knowledge-driven AI, ensuring LLMs become interpretable, ethically aligned, and domain-aware. The project’s findings will inform AI regulation, advance research, and drive innovation, contributing to responsible AI development.

Mots clés : arge language model driven neuro symbolic ai systems health, medical search food information engineering geodata, education

Participants :
- Université du Cap (Afrique du Sud) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université nationale du Viêt Nam de Hanoï (Viêt Nam) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz de Hanovre (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 410820.0 €
- Université de Rome « La Sapienza » (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 85170.0 €
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 325650.0 €
- Madrid Health Service (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université polytechnique de Madrid (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 320640.0 €
- Expert system iberia sl (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 55110.0 €
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Arabie saoudite) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Babelscape srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 50100.0 €
- Université de l'Indiana à Bloomington (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Yaoundé I (Cameroun) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'État de Pennsylvanie (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Leeds Beckett (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195390.0 €
- Université de Malte (Malte) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 30060.0 €
- Institut indien de technologie de Kharagpur (Inde) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Helvia technologies ae (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 60120.0 €
- Université nationale et capodistrienne d'Athènes (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 270540.0 €