TILOS is a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with additional support from Intel Corporation. Our mission is to make impossible optimizations possible, at scale and in practice.

A partnership of faculty from University of California, San Diego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University, TILOS use-domain research pioneers learning-enabled optimizations that transform chip design, robotics, communication networks, and other use domains that are vital to our nation’s health, prosperity and welfare.

Our foundational research pursues five main pillars:

• Bridging discrete and continuous optimization.
• Distributed, parallel, and federated optimization.
• Optimization on manifolds.
• Dynamic decisions under uncertainty.
• Nonconvex optimization in deep learning.

Recordings of past TILOS Seminars and other presentations are available at tilos.ai/recorded_talks.
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