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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.

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for NLP Models

Wednesday, 26 April, 2023

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for NLP Models

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State-of-the-art language models in NLP perform best when fine-tuned even on small datasets, but due to their increasing size, finetuning and downstream usage have become extremely compute-intensive. Being able to […]

Co-Modality Active sensing and Perception (C-MAP) in Autonomous Vehicles, Augmented Reality, Remote Environmental Monitoring, and Robotic Grasping

Tuesday, 25 April, 2023

Co-Modality Active sensing and Perception (C-MAP) in Autonomous Vehicles, Augmented Reality, Remote Environmental Monitoring, and Robotic Grasping

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Combining multiple sensor modalities to achieve more robust understanding of environment and robot status is an emerging research area in robot navigation and autonomous driving. To fuse sensors such as […]

Adapting to Distribution Shifts: Recent Advances in Importance Weighting Methods

Monday, 24 April, 2023

Adapting to Distribution Shifts: Recent Advances in Importance Weighting Methods

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Distribution shifts are conceivable in practical machine learning scenarios, such as when a model is trained on data collected in different environments, or when a model is used in a […]

MBZUAI in top 20 globally in AI, CV, ML, and NLP

Thursday, 20 April, 2023

MBZUAI in top 20 globally in AI, CV, ML, and NLP

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MBZUAI currently ranks 19 globally in its areas of specialization – AI, computer vision (CV), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) – according to CSRankings. The university is now top ranked for computer science in the MENA region. The updated rankings place MBZUAI alongside institutions such as MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, ETH Zurich, Nanjing University, and the University of Washington.

With a focus on knowledge sharing and developing human capabilities

Wednesday, 19 April, 2023

With a focus on knowledge sharing and developing human capabilities

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Emirates Health Services (EHS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), with the aim of strengthening areas of cooperation and knowledge sharing in line the common goals and strategies of developing human capital and promoting skills and advancing efforts in the fields of scientific research and innovation.

UAE’s MBZUAI advances global healthcare with new AI research, partnerships, and collaborations

Friday, 14 April, 2023

UAE’s MBZUAI advances global healthcare with new AI research, partnerships, and collaborations

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Speed, consistency, and cost are the words most used to describe the inherent benefits of AI’s application to healthcare. Still, there is another critical descriptor that is almost always missed out in the discussion – personalization.

Truth-O-Meter: Making neural content meaningful and truthful

Thursday, 13 April, 2023

Truth-O-Meter: Making neural content meaningful and truthful

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A text obtained by a deep learning (DL) content generation system (raw text) usually has major issues in terms of randomness and incorrectness. We build a content improvement system specifically […]

Forecasting hospitalizations with AI

Wednesday, 12 April, 2023

Forecasting hospitalizations with AI

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Predicting how many patients will go to the hospital at any given time is a major challenge in healthcare. Facilities must accurately predict the potential flow of patients to ensure that healthcare professionals, equipment, and non-medical resources, are all in adequate supply.

Collaboration releases Vicuna – environmentally friendly, cost-effective rival to ChatGPT

Tuesday, 11 April, 2023

Collaboration releases Vicuna – environmentally friendly, cost-effective rival to ChatGPT

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Large Language Models (LLM) have risen to global prominence thanks to a chatbot developed by OpenAI known as ChatGPT, which can generate rich, lifelike written content and imitate human language style. Unfortunately, building and maintaining such chatbots is both financially and environmentally unsustainable, with compute costs running into the tens of millions of dollars per year, and a carbon footprint akin to that of a small city.

User-Centric Gender Rewriting

Tuesday, 11 April, 2023

User-Centric Gender Rewriting

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Most natural language processing (NLP) systems are unaware of their users’ preferred grammatical genders. Such systems typically generate a single output for a specific input without considering any user information. […]

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