AI4Science

One of the most promising perspectives of machine learning algorithms is their ability to quickly collate and analyze large amounts of data. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help push the boundaries of scientific research with its ability to assess decades worth of data.

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Scientific fields such as biology, genomics, chemistry, climate science, and physics have all accumulated quantities of data so vast that it would take many human lifetimes to read and digest the information.

Using machine learning, scientists can now tackle complex and multidisciplinary challenges by accelerating the analysis of data, discovering new connections, simulating and proposing experiments, and developing new theories.

Featured Projects

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Enhancing Super-Resolution Microscopy with AI

This project aims to further develop AI-assisted SRM microscopy approaches to improve its performance in living cells and tissues, diversify the applications of SRM microscopy in neuroscience, and more. 

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AI is an all-encompassing technology that can help us move beyond bottlenecks and speed up research in many scientific areas to help humanity tackle our most pressing challenges. 

Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Founder and Scientific Director, Mila

Resources

IVADO Strategic Research Funding Program
This research framework program has been developed in collaboration by research teams to address major scientific challenges in digital intelligence.

Research Labs

Mila professors exploring the subject as part of their research.

Mila Faculty
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Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Psychology
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Full Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
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Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research Department
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Electrical Engineering
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Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
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Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Psychology
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Full Professor, Université Laval
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Assistant professor, McGill University, Department of Medicine
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Research Scientist, ServiceNow
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Assistant Professor, Université Laval, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
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Chief Scientific Officer, Reliant AI
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Physics
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Associate Professor, Université Sherbrooke, Department of Computer Science
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Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Psychology
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Professor, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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Associate Professor, Yale University
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal
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Associate Scientific Director, Mila, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Full Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
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Assistant Professor in Machine Learning, HEC Montréal, Department of Decision Science
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Assistant Professor, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Neurosciences
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Associate Professor, McGill University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
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Full Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, HEC Montréal, Department of Decision Sciences
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Associate Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Associate Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Full Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research Department
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Assistant Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
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Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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Associate professor, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Publications

Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence
Hanchen Wang
Tianfan Fu
Yuanqi Du
Wenhao Gao
Kexin Huang
Ziming Liu
Payal Chandak
Shengchao Liu
Peter Van Katwyk
Andreea Deac
Animashree Anandkumar
K. Bergen
Carla P. Gomes
Shirley Ho
Pushmeet Kohli
Joan Lasenby
Jure Leskovec
Tie-Yan Liu
A. Manrai
Debora Susan Marks … (see 10 more)
Bharath Ramsundar
Le Song
Jimeng Sun
Petar Veličković
Max Welling
Linfeng Zhang
Connor Wilson. Coley
Marinka Žitnik
Neural Causal Structure Discovery from Interventions
Nan Rosemary Ke
Olexa Bilaniuk
Anirudh Goyal
Stefan Bauer
Bernhard Schölkopf
Michael Curtis Mozer
Recent promising results have generated a surge of interest in continuous optimization methods for causal discovery from observational data.… (see more) However, there are theoretical limitations on the identifiability of underlying structures obtained solely from observational data. Interventional data, on the other hand, provides richer information about the underlying data-generating process. Nevertheless, extending and applying methods designed for observational data to include interventions is a challenging problem. To address this issue, we propose a general framework based on neural networks to develop models that incorporate both observational and interventional data. Notably, our method can handle the challenging and realistic scenario where the identity of the intervened upon variable is unknown. We evaluate our proposed approach in the context of graph recovery, both de novo and from a partially-known edge set. Our method achieves strong benchmark results on various structure learning tasks, including structure recovery of synthetic graphs as well as standard graphs from the Bayesian Network Repository.
Multi-XScience: A Large-scale Dataset for Extreme Multi-document Summarization of Scientific Articles
Yao Lu
Yue Dong
Multi-document summarization is a challenging task for which there exists little large-scale datasets. We propose Multi-XScience, a large-sc… (see more)ale multi-document summarization dataset created from scientific articles. Multi-XScience introduces a challenging multi-document summarization task: writing the related-work section of a paper based on its abstract and the articles it references. Our work is inspired by extreme summarization, a dataset construction protocol that favours abstractive modeling approaches. Descriptive statistics and empirical results—using several state-of-the-art models trained on the Multi-XScience dataset—reveal that Multi-XScience is well suited for abstractive models.

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