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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.

34 MBZUAI papers accepted at CVPR

Thursday, 9 March, 2023

34 MBZUAI papers accepted at CVPR

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MBZUAI faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students will present 34 papers at the 35th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023) in Vancouver, Canada. At last count, 20 MBZUAI faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students have academic research accepted at CVPR 2023.

Working towards a hybrid, human and AI-powered education system

Wednesday, 8 March, 2023

Working towards a hybrid, human and AI-powered education system

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to “democratize education” and give greater access to powerful learning tools especially for disadvantaged groups including lower socioeconomic families, remote communities, those with learning disabilities or barriers to traditional learning, and girls and young women in certain parts of the world.

Causal Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities

Friday, 3 March, 2023

Causal Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities

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A primary goal in empirical science is to discover causal relationships among a set of variables in various natural or social phenomena. In machine learning, manifestation of causality in agents […]

Problems in network archaeology: root finding and broadcasting

Thursday, 2 March, 2023

Problems in network archaeology: root finding and broadcasting

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Large networks are often naturally modeled by random processes in which nodes of the network are added sequentially, according to some stochastic rule. Uniform and preferential attachment trees are among […]

Multimodal Factual Knowledge Acquisition

Thursday, 2 March, 2023

Multimodal Factual Knowledge Acquisition

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Traditionally, multimodal information consumption has been entity-centric with a focus on concrete concepts (such as objects, object types, physical relations, e.g., a person in a car), but lacks ability to […]

Alumnus innovator builds AI venture

Tuesday, 28 February, 2023

Alumnus innovator builds AI venture

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Young entrepreneur Abdulwahab Sahyoun – a recent master’s graduate from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) – is sharing his story in hopes to inspire other tech innovators to follow their ambitions in launching their own startup.

From Big Data to Bedside (DB2B):  Artificial Intelligence in Precision Oncology

Monday, 27 February, 2023

From Big Data to Bedside (DB2B): Artificial Intelligence in Precision Oncology

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Cancers are genomic diseases caused by somatic genome alterations (SGAs). The cause and disease mechanisms of tumors are highly individualized and heterogeneous, leading to a broad spectrum of molecular, cellular, […]

Scaling Generative Adversarial Networks

Friday, 24 February, 2023

Scaling Generative Adversarial Networks

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Using pretrained representations has become ubiquitous in computer vision and natural language processing. Pretraining unlocks better generalization, significant improvements in downstream tasks, and faster convergence. In image synthesis, however, the […]

Sustainable AI at scale

Thursday, 23 February, 2023

Sustainable AI at scale

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AI at scale is powering new breakthroughs in science for good, including drug design, clean energy, climate change, pandemic mitigation, creative content generation, and intelligent automation.

Enabling Practical and Rich User Digitization

Wednesday, 22 February, 2023

Enabling Practical and Rich User Digitization

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A long-standing vision in computer science has been to evolve computing devices into proactive assistants, that enhance our productivity, health and wellness, and many other facets of our lives. User […]

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