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Communications of the ACM || Andrew Kahng of UC San Diego weighs in on reinforcement learning for chip placement.
AutoDMP Optimizes Macro Placement for Chip Design with AI and GPUs
NVIDIA Developer || TILOS provides the benchmark for NVIDIA AutoDMP.
National University’s Artificial Intelligence Program to Commence Summer 2022
The National Science Foundation’s $20 million grant, in partnership with other prominent colleges, funds the new specialization for Master of Science, Data Science in Artificial Intelligence & Optimization.
A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning
Quanta Magazine || In the machine learning world, the sizes of artificial neural networks and their outsize successes are creating conceptual conundrums. When a network named Alexnet won an annual image recognition competition in 2021, it had about 60 million parameters. These parameters, fine-tuned during training, allowed AlexNet to recognize images that it had never seen […]
A Focus on Foundations: Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Hosts NSF-Funded AI Institute
UC San Diego Today || The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego is the future home of The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS. The $20M Artificial Intelligence (AI) hub will foster research and focus on “making impossible optimizations possible” at both scale […]
NSF Artificial Intelligence Grant
As part of an initiative to establish a series of artificial intelligence research institutes nationwide, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $20 million grant to a partnership of prestigious universities led by University of California, San Diego, and including National University, Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and […]
NSF Makes $20 Million Investment in Optimization-Focused AI Research Institute Led by UC San Diego
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an investment of $220 million to establish 11 artificial intelligence (AI) institutes, each receiving $20 million over five years. One of these, The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS), will be led by UC San Diego in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), San Diego-based […]
Intel® Labs and the National Science Foundation Invest in Artificial Intelligence
Intel Labs has a long-standing partnership with the NSF involving several programs aimed at advancing AI technology and innovation. The two organizations started working together decades ago when co-founding the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading microelectronics research consortium. Since then, they have established several exciting collaborations and programs spanning industry, government, and academia.
Penn Engineers Help Launch TILOS, a New NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Focused on Optimization
Through a $20 Million grant, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale, or TILOS. As one of TILOS’s partner institutions, Penn Engineering will contribute to its research on how algorithm-based systems can learn and improve upon themselves as they work.
Artificial Intelligence Institute Led by UC San Diego Lands $20 Million from National Science Foundation
San Diego Union Tribune || A new research institute led by UC San Diego has been awarded $20 million from the National Science Foundation to pursue foundational breakthroughs in artificial intelligence—an emerging battleground for the U.S. in the global race for technology leadership.