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 […]

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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 […]

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