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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.

Predicting and Explaining Cross-lingual Zero-shot and Few-shot Transfer in LLMs

Tuesday, 4 April, 2023

Predicting and Explaining Cross-lingual Zero-shot and Few-shot Transfer in LLMs

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Given a massively multilingual language models (MMLM), can we predict the accuracy of cross-lingual zero-shot and few-shot transfer for a task on target languages with little or no test data? […]

Short course on the development of open-source machine learning packages

Tuesday, 4 April, 2023

Short course on the development of open-source machine learning packages

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Many researchers now release experiment codes used for their papers so that others can reproduce results. However, experiment code is different from software, for which the primary purpose is to […]

Improving patient care with computer vision

Monday, 3 April, 2023

Improving patient care with computer vision

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Envision a remote village in the future. A villager has pain in his abdomen, but it will take hours, maybe even days, to travel to the nearest hospital.

A unified theory of all things visual

Monday, 3 April, 2023

A unified theory of all things visual

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Life arose around 3.7 billion years ago. Photosensitive cells appeared sometime later and this kicked off what is believed to be the slow progression from eyespot to eye cup, and the eventual growth of compound eyes. The first documented "eyes" and with them some semblance of what we would call "sight," came with the discovery of a trilobite, Olenellus fowleri, which lived at some point before the Cambrian explosion.

Training Deep Neural Networks in Tiny Subspaces

Monday, 3 April, 2023

Training Deep Neural Networks in Tiny Subspaces

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In deep neural networks, the number of trainable parameters is quite huge, which raises big challenges in both practical training and theoretical analysis. An essential question is, is the intrinsic […]

A Glass Bead Game of *-ology: Contemporary Computational Approaches to Linguistic Morphology, Typology and Social Psychology

Wednesday, 29 March, 2023

A Glass Bead Game of *-ology: Contemporary Computational Approaches to Linguistic Morphology, Typology and Social Psychology

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In this talk, I will discuss how NLP models can be used to advance other research fields such as linguistic morphology, typology, and social psychology. Contemporary models are especially good […]

Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation signs MoU with Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday, 28 March, 2023

Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation signs MoU with Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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In line with its vision to invest in the country’s youth development, the signing of the MoU came ahead of the “Riwaq Al Fikr – ADMAF Lecture: Music and Artificial Intelligence” held in the auditorium of the AI ​​Knowledge Center at Mohamed bin Zayed University.

Image generation and manipulation research at VinAI

Monday, 27 March, 2023

Image generation and manipulation research at VinAI

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In this talk, the speaker will present several research projects at VinAI that advance the field of image generation and manipulation. The speaker focuses on two mainstream generative technologies, GANs […]

Towards trustworthy generative AI

Thursday, 23 March, 2023

Towards trustworthy generative AI

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Generative AI is so hot right now. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard of it, and most likely, you’ve been using it. Right under your nose, Google has started autocompleting your emails and search queries, and many of the memes you’ve liked and shared recently might well have been created by generative AI systems like Dall-E2.

Patenting Software and AI inventions

Thursday, 23 March, 2023

Patenting Software and AI inventions

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Many of the inventions and innovations that are shaping the modern economy are in the software and AI technologies. Software can be easily pirated and copied without attribution or credit […]

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