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New multimodal dataset will help in the development of ethical AI systems

Vector co-founder Geoffrey Hinton wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Vector workshops give insights into responsible health AI deployment

Vector researcher Wenhu Chen on improving and benchmarking foundation models

Akbar Nurlybayev, Co-Founder and COO of Vector Bronze sponsor CentML, speaks on stage at the Collision Conference 2024

Climate change and AI-compute cap off the third and final day of Collision 2024

Private AI CEO Patricia Thaine presents at Collision 2024

ChainML, Private AI, and Geoffrey Hinton underscore the importance of responsible AI development and governance at Collision 2024

Vector Faculty Member Raquel Urtasun speaking on stage at Collision 2024 .

Self-driving trucks will be on the road next year says Vector co-founder Raquel Urtasun at Collision 2024

Vector researchers are presenting over a dozen papers at CVPR 2024

Vector Institute Computer Vision Workshop showcases the field’s current capabilities and future potential

Vector Faculty Member Gautam Kamath

Vector researcher Gautam Kamath breaks down the latest developments in robustness and privacy

World-leading AI Trust and Safety Experts Publish Major Paper on Managing AI Risks in the journal Science

Standardized protocols are key to the responsible deployment of language models

The known unknowns: Vector researcher Geoff Pleiss digs deep into uncertainty to make ML models more accurate

A change agent for AI workforce transformation: my time as a Vector Institute AI project management intern

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How businesses can balance AI innovation and cybersecurity

Benchmarking xAI’s Grok-1

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How to safely implement AI systems

How Vector Researcher Xi He uses differential privacy to help keep data private

Vector Research Blog: Structured Neural Networks for Density Estimation and Causal Inference

Vector Research Blog: Causal Effect Estimation Using Machine Learning

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Vector Institute hosts first-of-its-kind Generative AI Leadership Summit

Machine learning theory takes centre stage at Vector Institute workshop

12 AI Trends to watch for in 2024

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Introducing FlexModel: Breakthrough Framework for Unveiling the Secrets of Large Generative AI Models

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Neutralizing Bias in AI: Vector Institute’s UnBIAS Framework Revolutionizes Ethical Text Analysis

Vector researchers presenting more than 65 papers at NeurIPS 2023

AI for Chemistry and Materials: blending old and new ways of thinking

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AI & public health: using natural language processing for clinical database management

ICML 2023: Developing an adaptive computation model for multidimensional generative tasks

Vector Research Blog: Large Language Models, Prompting and PEFT

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Vector partners with IBET to increase the number of Indigenous and Black AI researchers

Key takeaways from the All In 2023 conference

Dan Roy named Vector Research Co-Director

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Unlocking AI-powered approaches to cancer treatment and detection

Generative AI for Enterprise: Risks and Opportunities

South Korea trip reaffirms Canada’s global leadership in responsible AI

How SMBs can manage the opportunities and risks of deploying AI

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Over 20 Vector research papers accepted at CVPR 2023

AI thought leaders on adopting generative AI

From left to right, Vector researchers Shai Ben-David, Franziska Boenisch, Vered Shwartz, and Sageev Oore at Vector's research symposium

AI Research Symposium highlights new Vector research

Vector and Communitech partner to help Canadian SMEs leverage the power of AI

Bill C-27 is a call to action

In search of eureka: Sacha Davis’ experience as Vector’s AI project management intern

Vector Institute names Ben Davies as its new Chief Information Officer

Vector researchers win top honours at NeurIPS 2022

Canada can lead in AI for Science

Ontario AI snapshot: The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2021-22

A view on Intellectual Property in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Vector researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik delivers CIFAR Massey Talk

Broader Public Sector

CDI and Vector Machine Learning Challenge for Cancer Image Segmentation winners announced

Deep Learning for Building Footprint Extraction in Aerial Imagery

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From no coding skills to AI-ready in three days: Introducing Vector’s Excel to AI for T-CAIREM

Graham Taylor named Vector Research Director

Bias in AI Program: Showing Businesses How to Reduce Bias and Mitigate Risk

Acceleration Consortium, Matter Lab, and Vector Institute collaborate on software to power self-driving labs

RBC joins Vector for our Computer Vision Symposium and shares how RBC’s new AI engine can accurately recognize building boundaries in satellite imagery

Mothers & Machine Learning: Vector’s AI Program for Mothers on Leave and Stay-at-home Caregivers

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New Vector Faculty Member Jeff Clune’s quest to create open-ended AI systems

Vector research blog: Value Gradient weighted Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Ontario strengthens its AI Ecosystem leadership position by extending partnerships with founding industry sponsors

Inside Goldspot’s Formula for Attracting AI Talent to Revolutionize Mining

New AI framework helps map and manage invasive mussel species in Canada’s lakes

CIBC Analytics Day Recap: Understanding and Operationalizing Trustworthy AI

Computer Vision Technical Report details insights from industry-academic collaborative project

The Vector Institute Enters Five-Year Strategic Partnership with Canadian Tire Corporation to Enhance Customer Experience

Vector researchers recognized with awards at the 2022 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Vector awards nearly $2 million in scholarships to top master’s students pursuing graduate studies in AI in Ontario

2022 Ontario Budget includes $107M for critical technology initiatives

Students win award at inaugural Introduction to Machine Learning course for Black and Indigenous students

Broader Public Sector

Vector Institute introduces a Smart Health Initiative to drive innovation in healthcare

AI in Action Event: Come Join Vector’s Expert Panel on AI, Climate Change, & ESG

Research Symposium brings together Vector community to celebrate student and postdoc work

Machine Learning Robustness: New Challenges and Approaches

Broader Public Sector

Accelerating innovation in health: Boehringer Ingelheim and the Vector Institute to collaborate on AI

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Vector’s Shingai Manjengwa named one of Ryerson DMZ’s Women of the Year

Fairness in Machine Learning: The Principles of Governance

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AI in transportation: How companies are building an autonomous future

Machine Learning Interpretability: New Challenges and Approaches

Amateur hockey given professional viewing experience courtesy of machine vision startup co-founded by Vector researcher

Broader Public Sector

AI analysis of Social Media data to help with treatment of long COVID

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Using AI to Help Solve the Long COVID Puzzle

AI-enabled tool that identifies COVID-19 variants co-developed by Vector researcher Bo Wang

21 for 2021: the top Vector stories for the AI enthusiast

Technology, including AI, increasingly plays a key role in our food chain

Launch event – FastLane: Accelerating AI-fueled growth for Ontario’s fast-growing companies

Spotlight on Health at NeurIPS 2021

Vector researchers presenting more than 50 papers at NeurIPS 2021

Quantum tech startup yiyaniQ is Vector’s first spin-out company

Ontario AI snapshot: The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2020-21

New program aims to accelerate AI-fueled growth for small-and-medium-sized businesses

Vector researchers help institutions ensure privacy and confidentiality when sharing ML models

Vector researchers use OHDP to determine mortality predictors for long-term care residents with COVID-19

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Vector researchers use machine learning to build better quantum computers

Machine learning model creates treatment plans for patients with prostate cancer

Vector Faculty Member Toni Pitassi is the recipient of the 2021 EATCS Award

Responding to major shifts in data: Vector Industry Innovation Report on Dataset Shift Project

Defining AI’s guardrails: a PwC-Vector Fireside Chat on Responsible AI

Talking to Machines: new ML model allows for more “expressive” communication between researchers and AI systems

Machine learning model from Vector researchers creates 3D environments without reference images

Vector Researchers showcase wide-ranging machine learning applications at CVPR 2021

Wenhu Chen, a leader in natural language processing, is Vector’s newest Faculty Member

How Scotiabank Seeks Out Top AI Talent

Newest Vector AI scholarship recipients join growing talent pool in Ontario

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Federal Government Renews Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

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ICLR 2021: Researchers adopt teaching tricks to train neural networks like they’re students

Vector welcomes new researchers to Postgraduate Affiliate program

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Vector Research Symposium showcases cutting-edge machine learning developments

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Co-led by Vector Research Director Richard Zemel, ACM FAccT Conference emphasizes the importance of fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI

Vector Institute Launches Program to Help SMEs Reduce Bias in AI

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Vector Board Member Vivek Goel appointed to the Order of Canada

Vector Institute Releases First Annual Ontario AI Snapshot

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Vector welcomes 2020 cohort of Faculty Affiliates

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Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP): Insights from Vector’s industry-academic collaborative project

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Vector Scholarship in AI winner recognized for bringing AI to cancer analysis

Vector Institute extends condolences to the family and colleagues of Pearl Sullivan

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Vector research community preps for virtual NeurIPS 2020

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The Genesis of Manulife’s NLP Academy

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Researchers and startups converge in Toronto AI ecosystem

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Key ingredients companies need to successfully integrate AI

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Vector researchers take leadership role at Conference on Uncertainty in AI

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Vector researcher develops fairness model that accounts for individual preferences

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Vector researchers co-lead first ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning

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Vector researchers prep for ICML 2020

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Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi among those receiving CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Response funding

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VECTOR RESEARCHERS PRESENT “FIRST OF ITS KIND” AI-POWERED SEARCH ENGINE FOR AI AT CVPR 2020

VECTOR RESEARCHER BO WANG DEVELOPS TOOL TO TRACK GENETIC EVOLUTION OF COVID-19

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Vector Institute welcomes new 2020 postgraduate affiliates

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Implementing AI in healthcare: new white paper offers insights for deploying AI-enabled healthcare tools

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A message from Garth Gibson to Vector community

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Vector researchers release scientific paper search tool to help in fight against COVID-19

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Vector researcher Bo Wang develops a method for harmonizing medical data from multiple hospitals

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Vector Bronze Sponsor Surgical Safety Technologies lands on Time magazine’s Best Inventions 2019 list

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Coronavirus research breakthrough has Toronto roots

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New neural network models offer the potential for better predictions in medicine, finance, and human genetics

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Vector researchers at McMaster use AI to uncover signs of concussions decades after injury

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Vector hosts internship program for African machine learning students

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Machine learning for healthcare presents new challenges to reproducibility

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Vector researcher Will Grathwohl wants to lower the barriers to entry to AI

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Tick Identification to Combat Lyme Disease