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ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
The paper “Efficient Control Flow in Dataflow Systems: When Ease-of-Use Meets High Performance” of six BIFOLD researchers was honored with a 2021 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlights Award.
“I want to move beyond purely ‘Explaining’ AI”
BIFOLD researcher Dr. Wojciech Samek has been appointed Professor of Machine Learning and Communications at TU Berlin with effect from 1 May 2022. Professor Samek heads the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute. His goal is to further develop three areas: explainability and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence, the compression of neural networks, and so-called federated leaning. He aims to focus on the practical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of machine learning at the interface to other areas of application.
The Art of Entanglement
The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), together with the Science Gallery at Technische Universität Berlin, has announced a new artist in residence program called “Art of Entanglement”. The goal of the program is to combine artistic and scientific perspectives of artificial intelligence.
The program is endowed with a gross total of 30,000 euros. The open call was published on sciencegallery.submittable.com. Applications are open to artists based in Berlin who are interested in working intensively with topics and scientists in the fields of Big Data Management and Machine Learning as well as their intersection.
The selected artist will have the opportunity to realize an artistic project of their choice at BIFOLD, the national Berlin Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence at TU Berlin, and the Science Gallery platform.
Successful Seed Funding For IoT Projects
TU Berlin, Siemens AG (SAG) and University of Oxford (UoO) recently partnered in a trilateral seed fund to stimulate joint research project bids. One of the altogether five successful seed projects was initiated by BIFOLD Junior Fellow Dr. Danh Le Phuoc, a DFG principle investigator at TU Berlin, and focuses on IoT and Edge computing, in particular for smart factory, autonomous vehicle, smart city and smart energy network. The seed projects will run during 2022 and are aimed at developing large-scale public funding bids.
Function determines Form
An interdisciplinary research group has developed an algorithm which uses AI to implement inverse chemical design and thus generates targeted molecules based on their desired properties. The BIFOLD researchers expect that such algorithms, used in concert with other AI-driven approaches and quantum chemical methods, can greatly accelerate the search for new molecules and materials in many practical areas.
Shining a light into the Black Box of AI Systems
In the paper “NoiseGrad — Enhancing Explanations by Introducing Stochasticity to Model Weights,” to be presented at the 36th AAAI-22 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a team of researchers, among them BIFOLD researchers Dr. Marina Höhne, Shinichi Nakajima, PhD, and Kirill Bykov, propose new methods to reduce visual diffusion of the different explanation methods, which have shown to make existing explanation methods more robust and reliable.
Lifting the curse of dimensionality for statistics in ML
The paper “Beyond Smoothness: Incorporating Low-Rank Analysis into Nonparametric Density Estimation” by BIFOLD researcher Dr. Robert A. Vandermeulen and his colleague Dr. Antoine Ledent, Technical University Kaiserslautern, was presented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021). Their paper provides the first solid theoretical foundations for applying low-rank methods to nonparametric density estimation.
Tracking spooky action at a distance
The use of AI in classical sciences such as chemistry, physics, or mathematics remains largely uncharted territory. Researchers from the Berlin Institute for the Foundation of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) at TU Berlin and Google Research have successfully developed an algorithm to precisely and efficiently predict the potential energy state of individual molecules using quantum mechanical data. Their findings, which offer entirely new opportunities for material scientists, have now been published in the paper “SpookyNet: Learning Force Fields with Electronic Degrees of Freedom and Nonlocal Effects” in Nature Communications.
Benchmarking Neural Network Explanations
Neural networks have found their way into many every day applications. During the past years they reached excellent performances on various largescale prediction tasks, ranging from computer vision, language processing or medical diagnosis. Even if in recent years AI research developed various techniques that uncover the decision-making process and detect so called “Clever Hans” predictors – there exists no ground truth-based evaluation framework for such explanation methods. BIFOLD researcher Dr. Wojciech Samek and his colleagues now established an Open Source ground truth framework, that provides a selective, controlled and realistic testbed for the evaluation of neural network explanations. The work will be published in Information Fusion.
Two BIFOLD papers ranked as ESI Highly Cited and Hot Papers
Two machine learning papers by BIFOLD researchers received the “Essential Science indicators” (ESI) “Highly Cited” and “Hot Papers” labels for their impact in the science community.