Offered by Mila and the Public Policy Forum, this program is designed to equip policy and decision makers with the tools to navigate the opportunities and risks of AI. The next cohort will be held in French on September 1-2, 2026, at Mila.
This program supports AI startups at any time of the year. Benefit from cutting-edge resources and tailored support to accelerate your technology's development.
Connect with a Mila academic advisor and current student-researchers to learn more about Mila's community and how to join us on August 19, 31 and September 11, 2026.
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Publications
A Comparative Analysis of AI Models for Short-Term Solar Irradiance Forecasting
Examining the detailed structure of galaxy populations provides valuable insights into their formation and evolution mechanisms. Significant… (see more) barriers to such analysis are the nontrivial noise properties of real astronomical images and the point-spread function, which blurs structure. Here we present a framework which combines recent advances in score-based likelihood characterization and diffusion model priors to perform a Bayesian analysis of image deconvolution. The method, when applied to minimally processed Hubble Space Telescope data, recovers structures which have otherwise only become visible in next-generation James Webb Space Telescope imaging.
Diffusion wavelets extract information from graph signals at different scales of resolution by utilizing graph diffusion operators raised to… (see more) various powers, known as diffusion scales. Traditionally, the diffusion scales are chosen to be dyadic integers,
Integrating multimodal single-cell data such as scRNA-seq with scATAC-seq is essential for decoding gene regulatory networks, but remains di… (see more)fficult due to feature harmonization and limited paired multiome data. We introduce ECLARE, a framework that uses multi-teacher ensemble knowledge distillation with contrastive learning and optimal-transport alignment to integrate unpaired single-cell multi-omic datasets. Across benchmarks, ECLARE achieves competitive performance for multimodal integration and biological structure preservation. We further demonstrate utility in a major depressive disorder case study using unpaired snRNA-seq and snATAC-seq, identifying transcription factor–target gene programs that are differentially regulated with sex- and cell-type specificity. Finally, ECLARE learns continuous representations that capture longitudinal structure, highlighting altered neurodevelopmental programs associated with depression in female subjects. Altogether, ECLARE expands the practical reach of multimodal single-cell analysis by enabling diagonal integration of unpaired data with strong biological preservation, facilitating integrative regulatory studies across diverse cohorts and conditions.
The proliferation of digital microscopy images, driven by advances in automated whole slide scanning, presents significant opportunities for… (see more) biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. However, accurately annotating densely packed information in these images remains a major challenge. To address this, we introduce DiffKillR, a novel framework that reframes cell annotation as the combination of archetype matching and image registration tasks. DiffKillR employs two complementary neural networks: one that learns a diffeomorphism-invariant feature space for robust cell matching and another that computes the precise warping field between cells for annotation mapping. Using a small set of annotated archetypes, DiffKillR efficiently propagates annotations across large microscopy images, reducing the need for extensive manual labeling. More importantly, it is suitable for any type of pixel-level annotation. We will discuss the theoretical properties of DiffKillR and validate it on three microscopy tasks, demonstrating its advantages over existing supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised methods.
2025-04-05
ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (published)