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.
A diagram representing the interconnectedness of the various components of TILOS mission
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When and Why Pretrained Language Models Hallucinate
Adam Kalai, OpenAI

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Farinaz Koushanfar

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TILOS at NeurIPS 2024

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CROSS-DISCIPLINARY

We are a community of cross-disciplinary scholarship, creativity and curiosity, and value the pursuit of knowledge, the advancement of technology, and professional development.

INTEGRITY

We are a community of integrity and character that values what is honorable and honest in addressing real societal needs and grand challenges.

INCLUSIVITY

We are an inclusive and engaged community of diverse people and perspectives that values and seeks out different viewpoints and styles of thinking.