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Stay up-to-date with the latest news from MBZUAI and the wider industry, featuring insights into ongoing University research, innovations, and developments shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The Node gathers expert commentary, press announcements, and initiatives from the University and its partners, keeping you informed on the most relevant trends and breakthroughs.

Enabling Fast, Robust, and Personalized Federated Learning

Saturday, 16 December, 2023

Enabling Fast, Robust, and Personalized Federated Learning

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In many large-scale machine learning applications, data is acquired and processed at the edge nodes of the network such as mobile devices, users’ devices, and IoT sensors. While distributed learning […]

Improving diagnoses of a dangerous condition

Friday, 15 December, 2023

Improving diagnoses of a dangerous condition

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Mohammad Yaqub, associate professor of computer vision at MBZUAI, and other researchers at MBZUAI and Sheikh Shakbout Medical City in Abu Dhabi are developing a new method to identify pulmonary embolism using deep learning neural networks.

Polyglot programs: NLP for Arabic and the globe’s diverse dialects

Wednesday, 13 December, 2023

Polyglot programs: NLP for Arabic and the globe’s diverse dialects

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At the recent EMNLP conference, MBZUAI visiting associate professor Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and colleagues shared several studies that propose ways that scientists can design natural language processing applications that benefit wider swathes of humanity.

MBZUAI and Silal sign MoU to empower AI innovation in agriculture and food production

Tuesday, 12 December, 2023

MBZUAI and Silal sign MoU to empower AI innovation in agriculture and food production

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On the sidelines of COP28 UAE, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world’s first research university focused on AI, and Silal, an agri-food company based in Abu Dhabi, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bring AI innovation to agriculture and food production. The agreement will support the creation of a joint AI Center of Excellence with the potential to enable the UAE to develop and expand its food production sector, while improving food security and sustainability.

High-quality Neural Reconstruction in Real-world Scenes

Thursday, 7 December, 2023

High-quality Neural Reconstruction in Real-world Scenes

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3D reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. The recent use of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF)-based implicit representation has significantly improved reconstruction accuracy, enabling […]

On Transferability of Machine Learning Models

Thursday, 7 December, 2023

On Transferability of Machine Learning Models

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People can easily distinguish between different types of the same object. For instance, we can identify a mouse, whether it is Mickey Mouse or a real mouse. In contrast, machines […]

Fast Rates for Maximum Entropy Exploration

Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

Fast Rates for Maximum Entropy Exploration

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We address the challenge of exploration in reinforcement learning (RL) when the agent operates in an unknown environment with sparse or no rewards. In this work, we study the maximum […]

Dozens of studies by MBZUAI scientists presented at top natural language processing conference

Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

Dozens of studies by MBZUAI scientists presented at top natural language processing conference

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One of the most important annual conferences in natural language processing (NLP) will kick off this week in Singapore and, in total, 44 papers authored by MBZUAI affiliates will be shared at the conference.

Can artificial intelligence help cool our dangerously overheating cities?

Wednesday, 29 November, 2023

Can artificial intelligence help cool our dangerously overheating cities?

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In collaboration with IBM, MBZUAI faculty are developing AI foundation models capable of measuring, monitoring, and visualising the effects of climate change on our overheating cities.

Physics of Language Models: Knowledge Storage, Extraction, and Manipulation

Wednesday, 29 November, 2023

Physics of Language Models: Knowledge Storage, Extraction, and Manipulation

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Large language models (LLMs) can memorize a massive amount of knowledge during pre-training, but can they effectively use this knowledge at inference time? In this work, we show several striking […]

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