The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research and education activities to develop conceptual and mathematical understanding of large language models. Specifically, the university will conduct research analyzing simplified generative text models and language models trained on such data to gain insights into their inner...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant to the International Computer Science Institute of Berkeley, California from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop scalable second-order methods for training, designing, and deploying machine learning models. The CFDA program aims to advance computing and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $329,183 Project Grant to the College of William & Mary under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of a framework and methodology to enable researchers and software engineers to better interpret the behavior of AI-powered developer tools that leverage neural language models for source code. The project aims to generate global and local...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $750,000 Project Grant to Stanford University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FR: BEYOND THE VENTRAL STREAM: REVERSE ENGINEERING THE NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL BASIS OF PHYSICAL SCENE UNDERSTANDING IN THE PRIMATE BRAIN." The three-year grant, awarded October 1, 2021 and concluding September 30, 2024, will support research activities under the Computer and Information Science and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Stanford University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The grant supports research titled "USING AND GATHERING DATA FOR EFFICIENT BATCH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This three-year Project Grant will fund research at Stanford University to develop techniques for using and gathering...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Stanford University from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research investigating mechanisms for auctions and markets, with a focus on understanding the interplay between incentives and optimization. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communications sciences through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2023, supports research to develop dynamic neural network architectures that can efficiently enable multimodal perception, including vision, audio, and language processing. The research aims to address...
This $432,656 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to explore ways of aligning how artificial intelligence (AI) language models and humans process language. The goal is to better understand the reasons for the discrepancy between how AI and humans handle temporary semantic ambiguity in language comprehension. Specifically,...
Iowa State University received a $175,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award was made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS: A FEATURE AND STRUCTURE LEARNING APPROACH" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The project aims to advance the development of graph neural networks through investigator-initiated research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Chicago a $388,500 project grant from the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant period is from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024 to support research towards developing adaptive and interactive post hoc explanations. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communications...