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Le plus grand centre de recherche universitaire en apprentissage profond — The world's largest academic research center in deep learning.

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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 ! @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:
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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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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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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
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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:
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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!
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SAMSUNG chooses Mila for its new AI Lab.
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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:
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We are excited to announce the launch of the Mila Blog available in English and French!
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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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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 ➡️
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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. @CIFAR_News @AmiiThinks @VectorInst
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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
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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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Congratulations to Mila & McGill Professor Doina Precup, who was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada! Prof. Precup, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Research Lead at @DeepMind in Montreal, is recognized for her contributions to #RL and #ML for medicine.
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27 publications co-authored by Mila researchers were accepted at @icmlconf 2020. See the complete list.
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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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New post on Mila PhD student Alex Lamb's work with @rois_codh using machine learning to preserve classical Japanese literature:
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Yoshua Bengio live from @NeurIPS 2019 now.
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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:
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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 :
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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: #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!
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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 @LaCDPQ @EYCanada @Solotech_Inc @MomentFactory
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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.
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Mila members are presenting twenty-two papers at #ICML2019 this week! Here are some highlights:
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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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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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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. @CIFAR_News @AmiiThinks @VectorInst
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2020 commence bien ! Yoshua Bengio nommé Personnalité de l'année 2019 en sciences de @LP_LaPresse .
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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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Look-ahead Meta-Learning for Continual Learning: New post up on the Mila Blog by recent Mila graduate @GunshiGupta
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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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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:
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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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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:
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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.
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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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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 👉
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Congratulations to Joelle Pineau on being named one of 10 women who are leading the advancement of AI in Canada.
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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. #CDNtech #womenintech
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You missed the AI Social for Good Workshop @NeuRIPS ? you can binge watch it online.
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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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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 ➡️
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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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Today, we were pleased to officially welcome @HitachiGlobal among Mila's partners. #AI #Montr éal #Quebec
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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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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 👉
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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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Congrats to @MILAMontreal students Alexia ( @jm_alexia ), Andre ( @andrecianflone ), Gauthier ( @gauthier_gidel ) & Scott Fujimoto on being among the @BorealisAI 2018-2019 Graduate Fellows!
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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
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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!
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What's special about Mila? Yoshua's answer. @MILAMontreal @UMontreal @mcgillu
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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.
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Les chercheurs de Mila à #ICML2019 . Mila's researchers at #ICML2019 . @MTLINTL
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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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We are pleased to announce the new partnership with @MitacsCanada that will provide funding and training for graduate students.
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Une entrevue exclusive de Yoshua et Samy Bengio. An exclusive interview with Yoshua and Samy Bengio.
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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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" #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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@JustinTrudeau @UMontreal @UofT @geoffreyhinton @nyuniversity 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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New on Yoshua Bengio's blog: Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19. #AI #coronavirus
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On June 16, Yoshua Bengio, @geoffreyhinton and @ylecun received the Turing Awards from @theofficialacm in San Francisco.
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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 . @g_lajoie_
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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:
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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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Professor @irinarish in @mtlgazette this morning about the Canada Excellence Research Chair. #AI #womeninscience
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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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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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Life at Mila, ep. 5: @bonadossou is an intern-research affiliate at Mila from @jacobs_bremen . He shares with us his research interests in deep learning and molecular models and his love for the French language and Montreal as an intercultural city.
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Interested in joining Mila's research community? The recruitment period for new Mila students is starting today! For more information 👉
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We are thrilled to announce our lineup of speakers who will be present at #MoML2023 . You don’t want to miss this year's conference. Register now and submit a poster today 👉
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We are excited to announce that the molecular machine learning conference ( #MoML2023 ) is making a return at Mila on May 29, 2023! ⭐ Registrations and poster submissions are now open, students can register for free ⭐
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Mila PhD student Mélisande Teng was awarded a prize at #ICLR2023 for her AI model mapping ecosystems to better understand the relationships between species and their habitat and ultimately facilitate decision-making on environmental preservation.
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Where Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Meet - Irina Rish, PhD @UMontreal
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Congratulations to @tyrell_turing , Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Montreal Neurological Institute at @mcgillu and Core Academic Member at Mila, for winning the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in 2022. Read article here 👉
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Congratulations to Mila and @IVADO_Qc professor Guillaume Dumas ( @introspection ) and colleagues for their work in the journal @PNASNews which presents a new neurocomputational model of the brain.
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