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Introducing FlexModel: Breakthrough Framework for Unveiling the Secrets of Large Generative AI Models
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Trustworthy AI
Neutralizing Bias in AI: Vector Institute’s UnBIAS Framework Revolutionizes Ethical Text Analysis
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Vector researchers presenting more than 65 papers at NeurIPS 2023
Health
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Safe AI implementation in health: Why the right approach matters
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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
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Intellectual Property
Patenting AI Models: Avoiding the Dreaded Subject Matter Objection
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ICML 2023: Developing an adaptive computation model for multidimensional generative tasks
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Intellectual Property
Protecting inventions related to improvements to data and novel inputs and outputs
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Vector Research Blog: Large Language Models, Prompting and PEFT
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Partnership
Vector partners with IBET to increase the number of Indigenous and Black AI researchers
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Intellectual Property
Patent Searching: How to Find Out if You Really Invented Something
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Trustworthy AI
Key takeaways from the All In 2023 conference
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Intellectual Property
Ownership of IP: Do You Own Your Invention?
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Dan Roy named Vector Research Co-Director
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Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and Generative AI: Many Questions, Few Answers
Health
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Unlocking AI-powered approaches to cancer treatment and detection
Generative AI
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Generative AI for Enterprise: Risks and Opportunities
South Korea trip reaffirms Canada’s global leadership in responsible AI
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Vector community explores data privacy research at Machine Learning Privacy and Security Workshop
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Vector Institute partners with World Economic Forum on responsible artificial intelligence and research insights
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Vector Institute 2022-23 annual report: accelerating AI in Ontario
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Machine Learning Meets Quantum Mechanics: Vector Workshop Showcases Groundbreaking Developments in Quantum Computing
How SMBs can manage the opportunities and risks of deploying AI
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Over 20 Vector research papers accepted at CVPR 2023
Generative AI
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AI thought leaders on adopting generative AI
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The Vector Institute will receive $27M from the Ontario government
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How Wahi Built a Revenue-driving Realtor Recommendation Engine with Vector FastLane
Trustworthy AI
The Vector Institute’s AI Trust and Safety Principles
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Vector research featured at ICLR 2023
Public statement from the Vector Institute
Scholarship
Top Ontario students pursuing graduate studies in AI receive nearly $2 million in scholarships from Vector
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AI Research Symposium highlights new Vector research
Generative AI
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How to put Generative AI to good use?
Vector’s AI20 for 2023
Partnership
The Vector Institute enters five-year strategic partnership with KT Corporation
Partnership
Vector and Communitech partner to help Canadian SMEs leverage the power of AI
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How AI Vali helps clinicians improve patient care through Vector’s FastLane program
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Bill C-27 is a call to action
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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
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Vector researchers win top honours at NeurIPS 2022
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Canada can lead in AI for Science
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Ontario AI snapshot: The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2021-22
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A view on Intellectual Property in the Artificial Intelligence Era
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Vector researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik delivers CIFAR Massey Talk
Health
CDI and Vector Machine Learning Challenge for Cancer Image Segmentation winners announced
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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
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Vector AI Engineering blog : Deep Learning for Building Footprint Extraction in Aerial Imagery
Graham Taylor named Vector Research Director
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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
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Vector AI Engineering Blog: Benchmarking Robustness of Reinforcement Learning Approaches using safe-control-gym
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Trustworthy AI Themes for Business from the Vector Community
Mothers & Machine Learning: Vector’s AI Program for Mothers on Leave and Stay-at-home Caregivers
New Vector Faculty Member Jeff Clune’s quest to create open-ended AI systems
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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
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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)
L’Institut Vector remet des bourses de près de 2 millions de dollars aux meilleurs étudiants à la maîtrise poursuivant des études supérieures en intelligence artificielle en Ontario
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
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
Accelerating innovation in health: Boehringer Ingelheim and the Vector Institute to collaborate on AI
Vector’s Shingai Manjengwa named one of Ryerson DMZ’s Women of the Year
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Fairness in Machine Learning: The Principles of Governance
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
AI analysis of Social Media data to help with treatment of long COVID
Using AI to Help Solve the Long COVID Puzzle
AI-enabled tool that identifies COVID-19 variants co-developed by Vector researcher Bo Wang
Phase webinar
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
New program aims to accelerate AI-fueled growth for small-and-medium-sized businesses
Ontario AI snapshot: The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2020-21
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
Vector researchers use machine learning to build better quantum computers
Machine learning model creates treatment plans for patients with prostate cancer
Accelerating innovation and growth: OMERS and the Vector Institute to collaborate on AI
CIBC’s techniques to keep AI models accurate when the data changes
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
VECTOR SPONSORSHIP FROM NVIDIA RENEWED THROUGH 2027
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 co-founder Raquel Urtasun raises $100 million for self-driving startup waabi
Geoffrey Hinton receives honorary degree from University of Toronto
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
AI has a compute problem. There’s a Canadian approach to solving it
Newest Vector AI scholarship recipients join growing talent pool in Ontario
Federal Government Renews Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
Vector welcomes Hon. Peter Bethlenfalvy, May 5
ICLR 2021: Researchers adopt teaching tricks to train neural networks like they’re students
Vector welcomes new researchers to Postgraduate Affiliate program
Vector Research Symposium showcases cutting-edge machine learning developments
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
A TELUS AI agent approached sustainability like a chess game
Vector Board Member Vivek Goel appointed to the Order of Canada
Vector collaborates with Phase AI on new career skills program
Vector Institute Releases First Annual Ontario AI Snapshot
Vector Faculty Members among newly appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Vector welcomes 2020 cohort of Faculty Affiliates
VECTOR TALKS AT TMLS 2020
Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP): Insights from Vector’s industry-academic collaborative project
Vector Scholarship in AI winner recognized for bringing AI to cancer analysis
Vector Institute extends condolences to the family and colleagues of Pearl Sullivan
Vector research community preps for virtual NeurIPS 2020
Roche Canada Launches National Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence
The Genesis of Manulife’s NLP Academy
Researchers and startups converge in Toronto AI ecosystem
Vector Institute Establishes New AI Engineering Team to Ramp up Applied AI for Sponsors and Partners
Key ingredients companies need to successfully integrate AI
Vector researchers take leadership role at Conference on Uncertainty in AI
Vector researcher develops fairness model that accounts for individual preferences
With a big vision, Toronto founders can attract AI talent from Silicon Valley
Unlearning
Vector researchers co-lead first ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning
Vector researchers among recipients of CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants
Vector researchers prep for ICML 2020
Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi among those receiving CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Response funding
Unveiling the Vector Institute’s new three-year strategy
Vector Institute Three Year Strategic Plan
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
With Vector, BMO trains a new leading-edge deep learning model for Finance – and wants to use it where it counts most
Vector partners with Michener Institute of Education at UHN to embed AI into healthcare practice
We must do more
Jane Philpott named special advisor of the Ontario Health Data Platform which Vector is supporting with computing infrastructure and data science expertise
Vector researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik launches world’s first “self-driving lab” for the discovery of thin-film materials.
Vector researcher Sanja Fidler part of team behind Nvidia’s GameGAN, which generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Experts, including Vector researcher Frank Rudzicz, detail how COVID-19 will reshape our world
Vector Scholarship in AI Announcement
Five Vector-led AI research projects among those chosen for CIFAR’s AI and COVID-19 Catalyst Grants
Vector Institute’s AI makes predictions about random events like market trades
Vector Institute joins Roche Canada Data Science Coalition, launches Kaggle challenge to Advance COVID-19 Solutions
Vector and U of T researcher aims to improve accuracy of COVID-19 contact tracing with MyTrace app
ROXANA SULTAN, VP, HEALTH
Vector Institute to Support Provincial Efforts Against COVID-19 with Computing Infrastructure and Data Science Expertise
Success Stories
How Thomson Reuters uses NLP to enable knowledge workers to make faster and more accurate business decisions
Success Stories
Scaling AI: How Accenture bridges research and business to create organization-wide AI capability
Vector Institute welcomes new 2020 postgraduate affiliates
Implementing AI in healthcare: new white paper offers insights for deploying AI-enabled healthcare tools
A message from Garth Gibson to Vector community
Vector researchers release scientific paper search tool to help in fight against COVID-19
Vector researcher is tapping human wisdom using AI
How Vector and U of T computer scientists are transforming the world
Vector researcher Bo Wang develops a method for harmonizing medical data from multiple hospitals
Vector Bronze Sponsor Surgical Safety Technologies lands on Time magazine’s Best Inventions 2019 list
MIT Tech Review: Vector Faculty Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s work with AI-discovered molecules named one of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020
Coronavirus research breakthrough has Toronto roots
New neural network models offer the potential for better predictions in medicine, finance, and human genetics
Vector researchers at McMaster use AI to uncover signs of concussions decades after injury
University of Toronto Magazine: Alán Aspuru-Guzik Has Seen the Lab of The Future, and It’s Very, Very Fast
Vector hosts internship program for African machine learning students
Globe & Mail: Innovation in health care depends on responsible, expanded data access for AI researchers
Machine learning for healthcare presents new challenges to reproducibility
Vector researcher Will Grathwohl wants to lower the barriers to entry to AI
Canada’s top international AI talent grows to 80
UofT breaks ground on the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre, future Vector Institute home
Machine learning platform helps enable early diagnosis of life-threatening infection in premature infants
Mitacs to collaborate with Vector Institute to accelerate placement of AI interns into Canadian industry
AI community celebrates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton at Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium
Vector Institute appoints eight new Faculty Members, Announces Plans to Recruit Three new Faculty in Deep Learning with the University of Toronto
Vector Researchers Prepare for 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Vector Institute Names 29 New Faculty Affiliates
Vector’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, wins the Honda Prize 2019
Melissa McCorriston receives Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence
Tick Identification to Combat Lyme Disease
League Announces New Agreement With The Vector Institute
Gillian Hadfield appointed inaugural director of U of T’s Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society
Thousands of Images at the Radiologist’s Fingertips Seeing the Invisible
Vector Faculty Affiliate wins top honours at CVPR 2019
MBAN Students Awarded Vector Institute’s $17,500 Scholarship
Haonan Duan receives Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence
Vector Institute Announces Second Cohort of Vector Scholarship in AI Recipients
Vector Faculty take new musical style transfer model to ICLR
Vector Institute kicks off series of Pathfinder Projects focused on health AI adoption
Nine More Vector Faculty Members Named Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs
Anna Goldenberg wants to teach computers to catch heart attacks before they happen
Vector co-founder Brendan Frey on using AI to transform drug discovery, development and innovation
Vector Institute’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, receives ACM A.M. Turing Award alongside Dr. Yoshua Bengio and Dr. Yann LeCun.
The Vector Institute is thrilled to be co-locating with the University of Toronto to the soon-to-be built Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre
Researchers and professionals from coast to coast descend on Vector for first Research Symposium and Job Fair
VECTOR INSTITUTE WELCOMES NEW POSTGRADUATE AFFILIATES TO ITS GROWING RESEARCH COMMUNITY
Machine Learning Could Eliminate Unnecessary Treatments for Children with Arthritis
The chosen few: We asked Canada’s business leaders to nominate the brightest minds you’ve never heard of
Machine learning for MEG during speech tasks
Vector Institute Offering Scholarships to Candidates Applying to AI Master’s Programs
Geoffrey Hinton named Companion of the Order of Canada
The global race for artificial-intelligence supremacy is on – and Canada’s next moves are crucial
Vector Awards Inaugural Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence, Second Round of Applications to Open in 2019
A radical new neural network design could overcome big challenges in AI
Vector Researchers Win Top Honours at NeurIPS 2018
Vector Faculty members named to the first cohort of Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs
Vector Institute Grows Faculty Across Canada
2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School
Masters Programs
University of Guelph
2018-2019 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar
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NVIDIA opening AI lab in Toronto led by Vector Faculty Member, Sanja Fidler
CONGRATULATIONS TO UBER ON PLANNED TORONTO EXPANSION
Wysdom.AI Partners with Vector as a Bronze Sponsor
Congratulations to TD’s Layer 6 on Winning Spotify RecSys Challenge 2018
Vector Researchers use AI to add ‘4D’ effects to movies
Vector Faculty Marzyeh Ghassemi featured on MIT Tech Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35
Vector Faculty Member Graham Taylor Receives Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award
Sanja Fidler will lead research at NVIDIA AI Lab in Toronto
U of T grads seek out Toronto jobs as Canada’s ‘brain gain’ gathers steam
Stradigi AI Teams Up With The Vector Institute
University of Guelph Gets $3.4 Million From Canada Research Chairs Program
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Thinking different: U of T’s newest Canada Research Chairs are exploring new frontiers in knowledge and innovation
AI and the MD
Predict responsibly: Fairness needed in algorithmic decision-making, U of T experts say
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Vector Institute Heads to ICLR
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Mission to Revolutionize Modern-Day Chemistry Labs Leads Vector’s Newest Faculty Member to Canada
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Garth Gibson: Celebrating Vector’s First Year in the AI Ecosystem
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Cross-Country Career in Reinforcement Learning Leads Amir-massoud Farahmand to Vector Institute in Toronto
McMaster University: Vector Institute names three McMaster trainees to inaugural Postgraduate Affiliate program
DeepLearni.ng Joins the Vector Institute
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Vector Institute Launches Inaugural Postgraduate Affiliate Program
Vector Research Director named NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Machine Learning
Vector helps launch new Canada.ai platform to showcase Canada’s global leadership in artificial intelligence
U of T News: Vector’s Research Director, Richard Zemel, answers ‘Where is AI headed in 2018?’
Geoffrey Hinton named among Bloomberg’s list of 50 Most Influential People of 2017
Vector Faculty Members, David Duvenaud and Quaid Morris, awarded NVIDIA Compute the Cure Grant
A New Way for Machines to See, Taking Shape in Toronto
Vector’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Geoffrey Hinton is #10 on Toronto Life’s list of Top 50 Influentials of 2017
Vector faculty members David Duvenaud and Anna Goldenberg among Canada Research Chair award recipients
CBC Metro Morning: Dr. Garth Gibson’s interview with Matt Galloway
Vector Institute to Collaborate with Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and University Health Network
