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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.

MBZUAI to play vanguard role at NeurIPS 2023

Friday, 17 November, 2023

MBZUAI to play vanguard role at NeurIPS 2023

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MBZUAI faculty will present 53 papers at the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

ADGM and MBZUAI forge strategic collaboration to advance artificial intelligence for regulatory compliance

Friday, 17 November, 2023

ADGM and MBZUAI forge strategic collaboration to advance artificial intelligence for regulatory compliance

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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), focused on advancing the role of artificial intelligence (AI) to better achieve regulatory outcomes within the financial services sector. 

The RenAIssance: Why AI marks a resurgence of empiricism

Thursday, 16 November, 2023

The RenAIssance: Why AI marks a resurgence of empiricism

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Professor Eric Xing's op-ed for the World Economic Forum's Agenda on why dystopian AI predictions owe more to sensationalism than scientific substance.

Transformer Models: from Linguistic Probing to Outlier Weights

Thursday, 16 November, 2023

Transformer Models: from Linguistic Probing to Outlier Weights

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Language Models, of all sizes, have improved at a fast pace during the last few years. However, besides performance measures on downstream tasks, it is hard to understand what degree […]

MBZUAI provides unique insights into the challenges facing artificial intelligence researchers in Southeast Asia

Wednesday, 15 November, 2023

MBZUAI provides unique insights into the challenges facing artificial intelligence researchers in Southeast Asia

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MBZUAI faculty have published eight papers and won two major publication awards at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2023).

Medical Image Computing: Harvesting the Healing Power of AI and Domain Knowledg

Wednesday, 15 November, 2023

Medical Image Computing: Harvesting the Healing Power of AI and Domain Knowledg

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Healthcare is a domain where AI, machine learning, and data science can make real, big differences. While short-term successes are achieved by the powerful combination of better engineering, larger datasets, […]

AI-empowered smart grids: accelerating the energy transition

Tuesday, 14 November, 2023

AI-empowered smart grids: accelerating the energy transition

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Researchers from the Mohamed bin Zayed University for Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) are using a novel combination of federated and learning to make smart grids more secure, efficient, and reliable.

What Really Counts: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Counting Behaviour in Simple RNNs

Monday, 13 November, 2023

What Really Counts: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Counting Behaviour in Simple RNNs

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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are commonly used in sequential tasks. They are Turing complete, and therefore theoretically capable of computing any task if correctly configured. However, there is a long-standing […]

MBZUAI team wins government communication competition

Friday, 10 November, 2023

MBZUAI team wins government communication competition

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A team of graduate students from MBZUAI was awarded first place in a recent competition focused on sustainability in government communication.

Power-Watershed: a graph-based optimization framework for image and data processing

Friday, 10 November, 2023

Power-Watershed: a graph-based optimization framework for image and data processing

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The watershed is a tool originally developed in the mathematical morphology community for image segmentation. Over time, numerous adaptations have emerged, proving its applicability beyond image processing. Particularly, it has […]

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