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Located in the heart of Quebec’s AI ecosystem, Mila is a community of more than 1,400 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation.

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13 Mar 2026
Mila Launches Its First National Hackathon Focused on the Safety of Conversational AI in Youth Mental Health Contexts
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06 Mar 2026
Designing the Future: Three AI4Good Lab Alumni on Belonging, Courage, and Building AI for Everyone
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27 Feb 2026
The Quebec Government Grants $36M to Mila to Strengthen Artificial Intelligence Research and Talent
In the photo from left to right: Ms. Céline Haytayan, Member of the National Assembly for Laval-des-Rapides and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister, portfolios of Artificial Intelligence, the Quantum Sector, Science and Innovation, Ms. Chantal Rouleau, Minister Responsible for Social Solidarity and Community Action and Minister Responsible for the Metropolis and the Montréal Region, Mr. Jean Boulet, Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Ms. Valérie Pisano, President and Chief Executive Officer of
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Faculty 

Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio, Mila today brings together over 140 professors affiliated with Université de Montréal, McGill University, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal. Mila also welcomes professors from Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) and Concordia University. 

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Latest Publications

Accelerated green material and solvent discovery with chemistry- and physics-guided generative AI
Eslam G. Al-Sakkari
Ahmed Ragab
Marzouk Benali
Olumoye Ajao
Daria C. Boffito
Hanane Dagdougui
2026-05-31
Artificial Intelligence Chemistry (published)
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Automated diagnosis of usual interstitial pneumonia on chest CT via the mean curvature of isophotes
Peter Savadjiev
Morteza Rezanejad
Sahir Bhatnagar
David Camirand
Claude Kauffmann
Kaleem Siddiqi
Ronald J. Dandurand
Patrick Bourgouin
Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre
Alexandre Semionov
To test whether the mean curvature of isophotes (MCI), a geometric image transformation, can be used to improve automatic detection on chest… (see more) CT of Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP), a determining radiological pattern in the diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD). This retrospective study included chest CT scans from 234 patients (123 female,111 male; mean age: 61.6 years; age range: 18-90 years) obtained at two independent institutions between 2007 and 2024. Three different classification models were trained on the original CT images and separately on MCI-transformed CT images: (1) a previously published deep learning model for classifying fibrotic lung disease on chest CT, (2) a classification pipeline based on the EfficientNet-V2 convolutional neural network architecture, and (3) a non-deep-learning model based on the functional principal component analysis (FPCA) of density functions of voxel intensity. All models were trained on data from the first institution and evaluated on data from the second institution with the recall-macro, precision-macro and F1-macro scores. Performance difference between classifier pairs was tested with the Stuart-Maxwell marginal homogeneity test. For a fixed model architecture and training algorithm, MCI-transformed images yield comparable or better classification performance than the original CT images. The best performance improvement achieved with MCI compared to CT was: recall-macro 0.83 vs 0.57, precision-macro 0.81 vs 0.50, F1-macro 0.80 vs 0.49, p=4.2e-5. MCI may be a valuable addition to existing AI systems for screening for UIP on chest CT. Machine learning methods for identifying usual interstitial pneumonia on chest CT perform better when the input CT images are transformed via the mean curvature of isophotes (MCI), a geometric transformation method known from classical computer vision. Three machine learning models were trained on a dataset of 158 patients from one institution and tested on another dataset of 76 patients from an independent institution to discriminate for usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) on chest CT in a 3-group classification task. When keeping the network architecture and parameters fixed, changing the input image domain from the original CT to MCI-transformed images improved classification performance (Stuart-Maxwell test, p < 5e-3) MCI may be a valuable addition to existing machine learning systems for screening for UIP on chest CT, whether based on deep learning or on simpler shallow classifiers.
2026-05-31
European Journal of Radiology Open (published)
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Contextual Preference Distribution Learning
Benjamin Hudson
Laurent Charlin
Emma Frejinger
Decision-making problems often feature uncertainty stemming from heterogeneous and context-dependent human preferences. To address this, we … (see more)propose a sequential learning-and-optimization pipeline to learn preference distributions and leverage them to solve downstream problems, for example risk-averse formulations. We focus on human choice settings that can be formulated as (integer) linear programs. In such settings, existing inverse optimization and choice modelling methods infer preferences from observed choices but typically produce point estimates or fail to capture contextual shifts, making them unsuitable for risk-averse decision-making. Using a bounded-variance score function gradient estimator, we train a predictive model mapping contextual features to a rich class of parameterizable distributions. This approach yields a maximum likelihood estimate. The model generates scenarios for unseen contexts in the subsequent optimization phase. In a synthetic ridesharing environment, our approach reduces average post-decision surprise by up to 114
2026-03-16
arXiv (preprint)
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Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review
Kunal Ashok Dalsania
Alixe Ménard
Shruthi Sundararaman
Arya Rahgozar
Solange Rito Lima
Xintong Lu
Aya Al‐Ali
Krishnpriya Singh
Ramtin Hakimjavadi
Hui Yan
Claire Sethuram
Howard Bergman
Jim Laplante
Daniel I. McIsaac
Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi
Nadia Sourial
Manpreet Thandi
Sabrina Wong
Clare Liddy
Karen Bandeen‐Roche … (see 1 more)
Sathya Karunananthan
OSF Registries [https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/T54G8].
2026-03-16
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (published)
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AI for Humanity

Socially responsible and beneficial development of AI is a fundamental component of Mila’s mission. As a leader in the field, we wish to contribute to social dialogue and the development of applications that will benefit society.

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