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• Jay Roloff, jayr@illinois.edu (Executive Director, c3.ai.DTI)
• R. Srikant, rsrikant@illinois.edu (Co-Director, c3.ai.DTI)
• Tandy Warnow, warnow@illinois.edu (Co-chief Scientist, c3.ai.DTI)

Announcing our Third Call for Proposals:

AI to Transform Cybersecurity and Secure Critical Infrastructure

It is anticipated that up to USD $10 million in Research Awards will be awarded from this Call for Proposals. Proposals can request funding of USD $100,000 to $1,000,000 for an initial period of one (1) year.

C3DTI will also make available up to USD $2 million in Azure Cloud computing resources, supercomputing resources at UIUC’s NCSA and LBNL’s NERSC, and free, unlimited access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. 

**** We will be offering a virtual session with information on the CFP including an opportunity to ask questions early in January. Please keep an eye out on you email and this wiki page for more information. ****

Proposals are Due February 7, 2022

Awards will be made in March 2022 with start dates of around June 1, 2022

Announcements

November 12, 3 pm CT

Mathematics of Deep Learning

René Vidal, Herschel L. Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Mathematical Institute for Data Science, Johns Hopkins University

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The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in the performance of recognition systems, thanks to the introduction of deep networks for representation learning. However, the mathematical reasons for this success remain elusive. For example, a key issue is that the neural network training problem is non-convex, hence optimization algorithms may not return a global minima. In addition, the regularization properties of algorithms such as dropout remain poorly understood. The first part of this talk will overview recent work on the theory of deep learning that aims to understand how to design the network architecture, how to regularize the network weights, and how to guarantee global optimality. The second part of this talk will present sufficient conditions to guarantee that local minima are globally optimal and that a local descent strategy can reach a global minima from any initialization. Such conditions apply to problems in matrix factorization, tensor factorization, and deep learning. The third part of this talk will present an analysis of the optimization and regularization properties of dropout for matrix factorization in the case of matrix factorization.

Quick Links:

C3.ai DTI Webpage

Events

Information on Call for Proposals

Proposal Matchmaking

C3.ai DTI Training Materials (password protected)

C3 Administration (password protected)

Have Questions? Please contact one of us:

• Jay Roloff, jayr@illinois.edu (Executive Director, c3.ai.DTI)
• R. Srikant, rsrikant@illinois.edu (Co-Director, c3.ai.DTI)
• Tandy Warnow, warnow@illinois.edu (Co-chief Scientist, c3.ai.DTI)