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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.

Multimodal pretraining for objectionable content detection in videos

Wednesday, 17 May, 2023

Multimodal pretraining for objectionable content detection in videos

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This talk will cover preliminary work in the space of multimodal representation learning for the task of detecting comic mischief. In this work, we investigate two multimodal pretraining mechanisms to […]

Making microgrids work for people and planet

Tuesday, 16 May, 2023

Making microgrids work for people and planet

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Using a machine learning technique commonly deployed in healthcare settings called federated learning, researchers are using the complexities of energy production and use in microgrids to model novel ways to find the optimal balance between individual needs and grid-level needs, and do it with a keen eye on sustainability.

MBZUAI and OurCrowd Arabia sign MoU to drive funding for AI startups and research

Wednesday, 10 May, 2023

MBZUAI and OurCrowd Arabia sign MoU to drive funding for AI startups and research

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Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and OurCrowd Arabia, the Abu Dhabi based subsidiary of Israel’s OurCrowd, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly create and manage several initiatives aiming to accelerate and catalyze the growth of the AI technology ecosystem on the university’s campus in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi.

Intelligent Robots Operating in the Real World: From Agriculture Robots to Autonomous Cars

Wednesday, 10 May, 2023

Intelligent Robots Operating in the Real World: From Agriculture Robots to Autonomous Cars

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Autonomous robots need the ability to perceive and model their environment and make appropriate decisions in complex situations. The complexity results from the high-dimensional perceptions, the large number of possible […]

Green Learning — New Generation Machine Learning and Applications

Monday, 8 May, 2023

Green Learning — New Generation Machine Learning and Applications

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We argue that Deep Learning is not the only approach to achieve excellent performance. Striving towards Green Learning, we will propose and discuss Operational Neural Networks (ONNs) as more efficient […]

Inaugural hackathon explores AI healthcare solutions

Friday, 5 May, 2023

Inaugural hackathon explores AI healthcare solutions

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) hosted the first-ever Human Phenotype Project Hackathon in Abu Dhabi. The event brought together 24 postgraduate students and researchers from diverse backgrounds to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare.

Faculty win EACL 2023 outstanding paper

Thursday, 4 May, 2023

Faculty win EACL 2023 outstanding paper

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MBZUAI faculty members Alham Fikri Aji and Timothy Baldwin have been honored, alongside their co-authors, with an Outstanding Paper Award at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2023. Aji is an assistant professor of natural language processing, and Baldwin is acting provost and chair of the Department of Natural Language Processing at MBZUAI.

AlMarri on giving back and forging his own path

Thursday, 4 May, 2023

AlMarri on giving back and forging his own path

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Doctoral student Salem AlMarri wants to use his knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) and passion to give back to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through synergies found in his research, his employer, and his new youth council appointment.

Xing named 2023 IMS Fellow

Thursday, 4 May, 2023

Xing named 2023 IMS Fellow

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MBZUAI President and University Professor Eric Xing has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Xing has been honored for "pioneering contributions to statistics and machine learning research, entrepreneurship in artificial intelligence, and leadership in AI education," according to the IMS website. The IMS will honor 2023 Fellows as part of the annual IMS Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto in August.

Knowledge distillation and the greening of LLMs

Tuesday, 2 May, 2023

Knowledge distillation and the greening of LLMs

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Large language models (LLM) have burst onto the world stage with the introduction of Open AI’s Generative Pre-trained Model (GPT), Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), and many others. These models take an impossible amount of data — the entire internet, for example — and crush it into an algorithm that informs a decision-making engine that can power interfaces, answer questions, generate high-quality content, and quite a bit else.

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