Le plus grand centre de recherche universitaire en apprentissage profond. The largest academic research center in deep learning. 🦋@mila-quebec.bsky.social
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We are happy to announce the #SpeechBrain project, that aims to design an open-source all-in-one toolkit based on @PyTorch. It will make the development of speech and audio technologies much easier.
Check out speechbrain.github.io!
@UnivAvignon @Samsung @NvidiaAI @Dolby
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Congratulations to @Mirco_Ravanelli, Tituoan Parcollet and Yoshua Bengio on the release of @PyTorch-Kaldi, an open source speech recognition toolkit for developing state-of-the-art DNN/HMM speech recognition systems. Explore the project and learn more at: github.com/mravanelli/pytorc…
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Félicitations à Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton et Yann LeCun, les pères du #DeepLearning, qui reçoivent le prix #ACMTuringAward 2018. Congratulations to Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, the fathers of #DeepLearning, who receive the #ACMTuringAward 2018 award.
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Congratulations to @Yoshua_Bengio, founder and scientific advisor of Mila, who has become the first researcher in the world to surpass one million citations on Google Scholar, the leading platform for academic and scientific research.
A remarkable milestone that highlights the profound and global impact of his work in artificial intelligence and deep learning. mila.quebec/en/news/ai-resea…
Our Founder and Scientific Director @Yoshua_Bengio has become the first living researcher to surpass 1 million citations on Google Scholar, a testament to the foundational and global impact of his work. Congratulations Yoshua!
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Mila welcomes this morning's announcement by Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau of a historic investment of over $2 billion in AI, including a strategic national computing infrastructure, and the establishment of an institute dedicated to AI safety research.
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We are pleased to announce the election of Yoshua Bengio by his peers to @royalsociety. He joins some of the greats such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking.
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Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor @hugo_larochelle as Mila's new Scientific Director! A deep learning pioneer and former head of Google's AI lab in Montreal, Hugo's leadership will be pivotal in advancing AI for the benefit of all. Read the full press release here: ow.ly/yPlg50WOu6T
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Yesterday, Yoshua Bengio gave a lecture on the principles underlying the recent successes of deep learning, its limitations and research directions for advancing AI on a human scale. #AI piped.video/llGG62fNN64
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Mila is proud to report that Yoshua Bengio is now the computer scientist with the most recent citations per day (over the last year), with the top-3 being the deep learning trio, Bengio, Hinton and @ylecun, in that order. See the full statistics at
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Mila alumnus Kyunghyun Cho @kchonyc makes a financial contribution to support female PhD and postdoctoral fellows in order to promote equity and diversity at Mila and within the AI community.
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On April 23, Yoshua Bengio will give a keynote talk on machine learning for drug discovery against infectious diseases during the Mila TechAide AI Conference. @Google @Microsoft @IVADO_Qc @UbisoftMtl @DeepMind
Register today: mila.quebec/en/techaide-ai-c…
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The prestigious American magazine @TIME named Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila and Full Professor at @UMontreal, to the 2024 #TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Congratulations Yoshua! ow.ly/sQrY50Ri58N
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Mila welcomes 20 new researchers to its faculty members. mila.quebec/en/2019/11/mila-… .
@UMontreal @mcgillu @universitelaval @polymtl @ubc @MSFTResearch @GoogleAI #AI #Montreal
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Jian Tang (@tangjianpku) of Mila and @HEC_Montreal and his team launch #TorchDrug: an open-source ML platform aimed at making AI #drugdiscovery software and librairies freely available to the research community.
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Mila's annual supervision request process opens on October 15 to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2025 admission! Join our community! More information here mila.quebec/en/prospective-s…
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Yoshua Bengio, Mila’s Founder and Scientific Director, has been appointed Member of the new UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Full press release: mila.quebec/en/yoshua-bengio…
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We are excited to announce the launch of the Mila Blog available in English and French! mila.quebec/en/blog
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Interested in joining Mila's research community? Our annual supervision request process for new Mila students is starting this Sunday October 15, 2023.
For more information ➡️ pulse.ly/62ldgu92bt
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Our Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio has been named Knight of the Legion of Honour by France in recognition of his scientific contributions, his humanistic commitment to developing responsible AI, and his dedication to the Franco-Canadian relationship.
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It's off with @SaxeLab for another day of the Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning Summer School hosted by @CIFAR_News and @MILAMontreal in collaboration with @AmiiThinks and @VectorInst #dlrl
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CIFAR DLRL Summer School: Apply now!
Join us from July 29-August 6 in Montreal, Quebec, for the 2020 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School. #DLRLSS2020
Applications close Feb. 22.
dlrlsummerschool.ca/
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A governor general's Innovation Award for Joelle Pineau. Joëlle Pineau reçoit le Prix du gouverneur général pour l’innovation. @mcgillu @MILAMontreal mila.quebec/en/2019/05/a-gov…
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This new partnership will create exciting opportunities for our researchers to collaborate with @twittereng researchers on the development of responsible, community-driven machine learning systems.
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Canadian researchers who taught AI to learn like humans win $1M award | CBC News cbc.ca/news/technology/turin…
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Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026 admission! For more information, visit mila.quebec/en/prospective-s…
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27 publications co-authored by Mila researchers were accepted at @icmlconf 2020. See the complete list.
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Congratulations to Dr. Richard S. Sutton, @AmiiThinks's Chief Scientific Advisor, who received the prestigious 2024 A.M. Turing Award. With all 3 scientific leads of our national AI institutes now Turing Award winners, our AI ecosystem has never been stronger. We’re proud to celebrate this milestone with Dr. Sutton and the entire AI community!
BREAKING: Amii Chief Scientific Advisor, Richard S. Sutton, has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, alongside Andrew Barto! Read the official @TheOfficialACM announcement: hubs.la/Q039nZXM0
#TuringAward #AI #ReinforcementLearning
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Mila is bringing its machine learning expertise to the scientific community together with its partners across different disciplines to help find potential solutions to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Congratulations to our founder and scientific director @Yoshua_Bengio who has been included on @TIME's list TIME100 AI of 2024! #TIME100AI time.com/7012890/yoshua-beng…
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New post on Mila PhD student Alex Lamb's work with @rois_codh using machine learning to preserve classical Japanese literature: link.medium.com/pqwPTxxbdW
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Our Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio is now #2 in the world ranking of top scientists in computer science and electronics by @Guide2Research, the prestigious portal for computer science research: guide2research.com/scientist…
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From November 8 to 10, Mila will be holding its first workshop on generative flow networks (GFlowNets).
Save this link and join us online tomorrow as of 9:30am : piped.video/@mila-quebecarti…
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Congratulations to the six Faculty Members of @MILAMontreal on being named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and thank you for your Canadian #AI leadership. Read the full announcement: cifar.ca/spring-2019-ai-chai… #CIFARAI @CIFAR_News
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We are pleased to welcome virtually 300+ participants and mentors from 45 countries to the @CIFAR_News #DeepLearning + Reinforced Learning Summer School w support from @AmiiThinks & @VectorInst
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[MILA BLOG] Our Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio shares a blog post on #GFlowNets, a research direction he's been most excited about! mila.quebec/en/article/gener…
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A huge thank you to all our guests, partners and sponsors for your participation in the celebration of Yoshua Bengio's Turing Award at the new @UMontreal campus MIL!
@ManuvieCA
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Mila and AI startup @CohereAI announce a new partnership to foster meaningful research collaborations within the developer community and accelerate access to cutting-edge #NLP tools.
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It is not 27 but 32 publications that are co-authored by researchers from Mila at ICML 2020. See the complete list. mila.quebec/en/32-papers-acc…
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Mila members are presenting twenty-two papers at #ICML2019 this week! Here are some highlights: medium.com/mila-quebec/on-th…
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We’re sharing & learning today at the 3rd annual Microsoft Research & Mila Workshop, bringing together Mila professors, students and MSR researchers from around the world who are working together to advance the state-of-the-art fundamental and applied AI research. @MSFTResearch
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Reminder - CIFAR DLRL Summer School: Apply now!
Join us from July 29-August 6 in Montreal, Quebec, for the 2020 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School. #DLRLSS2020
Applications close Feb. 22.
dlrlsummerschool.ca
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Mila's strength is the diversity of people in its community.
Registration to study at Mila for Fall 2021 is now open!
📅 You have until December 15th to apply!
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2020 commence bien ! Yoshua Bengio nommé Personnalité de l'année 2019 en sciences de @LP_LaPresse.
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We are proud to share that nearly 100 Mila-affiliated scientific papers were accepted at NeurIPS 2023!
Read announcement: pulse.ly/39f29ztijf
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🎉Congratulations to our founder and scientific director Yoshua Bengio, who received the Medal of Honour from the National Assembly of Québec yesterday in recognition of his scientific career and commitment to making Québec a world leader in the responsible development of AI !
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A team of Mila researchers led by Yoshua Bengio, @SashaMTL, @vict0rsch, @alexhdezgcia today launched #ThisClimateDoesNotExist – an AI-driven experience based on empathy, allowing users to visualize the impacts of the #climatecrisis from #GoogleStreetView images.
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Check out our new work exploring why language GANs are falling short
arxiv.org/abs/1811.02549
cc @masscaccia @LucasPCaccia @LiamFedus @hugo_larochelle @lcharlin
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Look-ahead Meta-Learning for Continual Learning: New post up on the Mila Blog by recent Mila graduate @GunshiGupta
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We were delighted to welcome the Honorable @MarkJCarney and @EvanLSolomon to Mila today for a rich discussion on AI's potential to drive innovation, social progress, and economic resilience in the country, alongside key players from our ecosystem.
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We are soliciting your assistance in training a chatbot who will be able to answer questions from the public about VIDOC-19. Just ask any questions you might have! @godialogue @NuanceInc
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Congratulations to prof Bengio who have been inducted as a AAAI Fellow yesterday evening along with Yann LeCun and several others. #AI #Montreal @UMontreal
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Congratulations to David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Mila Core Academic Member and Assistant Professor at @mcgillu who has been appointed a Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair!
Read the announcement: mila.quebec/en/professor-dav…
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Yesterday, we had the honour to welcome German Chancellor @OlafScholz, a delegation of prominent business leaders and Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau. They met with leading AI researchers and entrepreneurs from our community.
More details: mila.quebec/en/mila-welcomes…
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And that’s a wrap. The @ACL2019_Italy main conference is officially over. The @MILAMontreal team had a blast. See you all next year! #ACL2019 #NLProc
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Mila's professor Jian Tang and his group has developed a general and high-performance graph embedding system called GraphVite specifically designed for large-scale graphs. mila.quebec/en/2019/08/mila-…
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We are one week away from ICLR 2024, where Mila researchers will present over 50 scientific papers.
See the full list of Mila-affiliated papers accepted at @iclr_conf here 👇
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Mila salue l'annonce d’investissement historique de plus 2G$ en IA, notamment pour une infrastructure nationale de calcul stratégique ainsi que la mise en place d’un institut dédié à la recherche sur la sécurité de l’IA réalisée par le premier ministre du Canada @JustinTrudeau.
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Many AI experts, including Mila’s @Yoshua_Bengio and @alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the @the_IAS, put forward the Manhattan Declaration after a High-level meeting at the @UN General Assembly. Read the Declaration: mila.quebec/en/news/milas-yo…
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Interested in joining Mila's research community?
The recruitment period for new Mila students will take place from October 15 to December 1, 2022.
For more information 👉 mila.quebec/en/supervision-r…
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Congratulations to Joelle Pineau on being named one of 10 women who are leading the advancement of AI in Canada.
As International Women’s Day fast approaches, we have rounded up a list of 10 women advancing AI in Canada to celebrate their strides and accomplishments.
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#CDNtech #womenintech
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We are pleased to share the conferences of the Neural Backpropagation Workshop that took place at Mila in December 2019. Talks by Yoshua Bengio, Irina Rish, Blake Richards and Gaël Varoquaux. #dlrl #AI
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You missed the AI Social for Good Workshop @NeuRIPS? you can binge watch it online. slideslive.com/neurips/neuri…
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On October 14, Yoshua Bengio, Mila's scientific director and founder, was recognized as the 3rd most influential scientist in the world, according to @Stanford's top 2% Scientists directory.
Read the article ➡️ mila.quebec/en/yoshua-3/
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The 40th edition of #ICML is starting today, where over 80 Mila affiliated research papers have been accepted!
View the list of articles : pulse.ly/ndlt7y7ggn
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Congrats to all 29 Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chairs announced today at #AICan by the honorable Minister @FP_Champagne. Mila is pleased to present 10 faculty members among the newest cohort of chairs:
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Today, we were pleased to officially welcome @HitachiGlobal among Mila's partners. #AI #Montréal #Quebec
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This week, Mila researchers will present more than 90 papers at @iclr_conf in Singapore. Every day, we will share a schedule featuring Mila-affiliated presentations.
Day 1 #ICLR2025 👇
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Thanks to substantial funding from @SimonsFdn, researchers @g_lajoie_ (Mila, UdeM) & @neuroamyo @UW hope to further the understanding of how multiple brain areas collaborate to guide learning across neural networks, a process that remains largely unknown.
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We are proud that @UMontreal and @mcgillu are once again recognized in the top 100 of the prestigious Times Higher Education ranking. Also the Computer Science programs of these two universities are respectively ranked 34th and 54th in the world👏
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Congrats to @SimonLacosteJ who has just been appointed head of the Samsung AI Lab( SAIL) in Montreal.
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From mitigating the risk of birth asphyxia to helping the public visualize climate change, our members' #AI4SocialGood projects are getting noticed. @onucharlesc and @SashaMTL selected among @HCRCS Rising Stars for their exemplary work in the field:
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Notre directeur scientifique Yoshua Bengio donnera une grande conférence gratuite ce jeudi 28 octobre au Centre de recherches mathématiques de @UMontreal intitulée Intelligence artificielle : entre généraliser et comprendre. Inscrivez-vous ici! lnkd.in/g_dKgJzZ
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Mila's founder and scientific director, Yoshua Bengio, published an article on his website explaining why he signed the open letter asking for a pause in the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Read the news here 👉 pulse.ly/s9441gumup
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Congrats to @MILAMontreal students Alexia (@jm_alexia), Andre (@andrecianflone), Gauthier (@gauthier_gidel) & Scott Fujimoto on being among the @BorealisAI 2018-2019 Graduate Fellows!
Borealis AI is thrilled to announce our 2018-2019 Graduate Fellowship winners! Meet our 10 outstanding finalists and learn more about the research topics they'll be pursuing this year. #AI #Canada borealisai.com/en/blog/welco…
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#CIFAR AI Chair @gfarnadi, Mila researcher and Assistant Professor at @HEC_Montreal, named among 2021 recipients of the Google AI Research Scholar Program for her project "Addressing Fairness in Decision-focused Deep Learning."
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[Mila Blog] Researchers @Mirco_Ravanelli and @Lorenlugosch introduce @SpeechBrain1: an all-in-one #PyTorch speech processing toolkit designed to make the R&D of neural speech processing tasks easier.
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Congratulations to Mila researchers @khimya @rosemary_ke and @yayitsamyzhang for being selected as part of this year's Rising Stars in EECS, hosted by @Berkeley_EECS !
#RISINGSTARS2020
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Launch tonight of the first book translated by AI, the French version of Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. apprentissageprofond.org/
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We are pleased to announce the new partnership with @MitacsCanada that will provide funding and training for graduate students. mila.quebec/en/2019/10/mitac…
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Mila welcomes 6 new faculty members, and Pascal Vincent becomes Core Industry Member.
We wish a warm welcome to @DBahdanau @catherine_regis @PouyaBashivan @SamiraEKahou Foutse Khomh and @introspection!
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“In nature and in artificial intelligence, there are two key functions to learn: perception and prediction. And I believe prediction is the real driver of what we’d define as intelligence.”
Guillaume Lajoie, Core Academic Member at Mila, in a tech talk at #WSAIAM24.
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A portrait of the researcher Irina Rish who has had an outstanding journey. @UMontreal #womeninscience
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Thank you, thank you! I owe a lot to the successive governments that have invested continuously in research and especially curiosity-based research, and more recently in #AI! Yoshua
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"#Machinelearning will completely transform scientific discovery", @Mila_Quebec Founder and Scientific Director #YoshuaBengio told an audience of up-and-coming AI scientists and practitioners at @CIFAR_News' #DLRL Summer School.
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Une entrevue exclusive de Yoshua et Samy Bengio. An exclusive interview with Yoshua and Samy Bengio. bit.ly/2FSS8Lz
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This week, Mila researchers will present more than 50 papers at @iclr_conf in Vienna. Every day, we will share a schedule featuring Mila-affiliated presentations.
Day 1 👇 #ICLR2024
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New on Yoshua Bengio's blog: Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19. #AI #coronavirus yoshuabengio.org/2020/03/23/…
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On June 16, Yoshua Bengio, @geoffreyhinton and @ylecun received the Turing Awards from @theofficialacm in San Francisco. piped.video/Fn589zeMij4
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With Mila’s support, our Founder and Scientific Advisor @Yoshua_Bengio is launching @LawZero_, a nonprofit organization committed to advancing research and developing technical solutions for safe-by-design AI systems.
Every frontier AI system should be grounded in a core commitment: to protect human joy and endeavour. Today, we launch @LawZero_, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing safe-by-design AI. lawzero.org
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🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that Sara Hooker (@sarahookr) will be a keynote speaker at the 2025 Mila Techaide AI Conference on April 17! Secure your spot today: mila.quebec/en/event/mila-te…
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Yesterday, Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, exchanged views on how AI is set to transform society as part of the #TIME100 Summit. Watch the full conversation here: time.com/6968820/time100-ai-…
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Nous sollicitons votre aide pour entraîner un agent conversationnel (chatbot) qui sera capable de répondre aux questions du public sur la COVID-19. Vous n’avez qu’à poser toutes les questions que vous avez en tête ! #IA #COVIDー19
@godialogue @NuanceInc
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The Mila community offers sincere condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and students of Professor François Laviolette who recently passed away. François was recognized in the Quebec scientific community as a pioneer in machine learning research.
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Notre directeur scientifique Yoshua Bengio a été nommé Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur par la France qui reconnaît son apport scientifique unique, son engagement pour l’IA responsable et son implication pour la relation franco-canadienne.
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Professor @irinarish in @mtlgazette this morning about the Canada Excellence Research Chair. #AI #womeninscience
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