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Artificial intelligence

  1. Community Economics for AI Powered Micro-Grid 

    September 1, 2023 | Peeyush Kumar

    The focus of this research is 2-fold a) Investigate the potential of AI model optimization for increasing energy efficiency of micro-grids and thereby reducing economic burdens on low-income households and marginalized communities; b) Build better economic models focused on community resiliency and equity for the…

  2. PDE-Refiner: Achieving Accurate Long Rollouts with Neural PDE Solvers 

    August 10, 2023

    Time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Recently, mostly due to the high computational cost of traditional solution techniques, deep neural network based surrogates have gained increased interest. The practical utility of such neural PDE solvers relies on their ability to…

  3. Social Biases through the Text-to-Image Generation Lens 

    August 8, 2023 | Ranjita Naik and Besmira Nushi

    Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is enabling new applications that support creators, designers, and general end users of productivity software by generating illustrative content with high photorealism starting from a given descriptive text as a prompt. Such models are however trained on massive amounts of web data,…

  4. Demonstration of CORNET: Learning Spreadsheet Formatting Rules by Example 

    August 1, 2023

    Data management and analysis tasks are often carried out using spreadsheet software. A popular feature in most spreadsheet platforms is the ability to define data-dependent formatting rules. These rules can express actions such as "color red all entries in a column that are negative" or "bold all rows…

  5. CircuitNet: A Generic Neural Network to Realize Universal Circuit Motif Modeling 

    August 1, 2023

    The successes of artificial neural networks (ANNs) are largely attributed to mimicking the human brain structures. Recent advances in neuroscience revealed that neurons interact with each other through various kinds of connectivity patterns to process information, in which the common connectivity patterns are also called…

  6. Deep offline reinforcement learning for real-world treatment optimization applications 

    August 1, 2023

    There is increasing interest in data-driven approaches for dynamically choosing optimal treatment strategies in many chronic disease management and critical care applications. Reinforcement learning methods are well-suited to this sequential decision-making problem, but must be trained and evaluated exclusively on retrospective medical record datasets as…

  7. OMS-DPM: Optimizing the Model Schedule for Diffusion Probabilistic Models 

    July 1, 2023

    Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are a new class of generative models that have achieved state-of-the-art generation quality in various domains. Despite the promise, one major drawback of DPMs is the slow generation speed due to the large number of neural network evaluations required in the…