This five-year, $199,995 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a co-designed framework of hardware, software, and algorithms enabling extreme-scale machine learning systems for emerging artificial intelligence of things and internet of senses technologies. Specifically, the Saint Louis University team will pursue five research thrusts: developing hardware and compiler approaches for large-scale split learning...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award, with a total funding of $174,770, supports the development of an adaptive, federated, continuous learning system that uses a novel federated, semi-supervised learning framework. This framework aims to retrain deep neural network models on distributed, unlabeled, heterogeneous data from edge devices, while leveraging explainable AI techniques to expedite local training. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The project, titled "CRII: CSR: ENABLING ON-DEVICE CONTINUAL LEARNING THROUGH ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF COMPUTING, MEMORY, AND DATA", aims to develop an efficient on-device continual learning framework that can incrementally learn new knowledge without forgetting prior learnt knowledge, while...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $146,855 to the University of Missouri System to develop an energy-efficient framework for federated learning (FL) on mobile AI systems. The key objectives are to: Create a universal energy estimation methodology for DNN models across FL devices; Explore strategies to enhance the energy efficiency of FL, particularly in high-speed communication...
This $131,959 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research conducted by Rutgers, The State University to develop new deep learning training methods that can efficiently scale to utilize high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The key goals are to: 1) Explore techniques like second-order information approximation, computation-communication tradeoffs, and data compression to enhance the speed...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,993 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports a collaborative research project on the "Foundations of Few-Round Active Learning" in supervised machine learning. The key objectives are to advance active learning algorithms and improve understanding of their capabilities in scenarios with limited interaction rounds. The research aims...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $201,262 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of interactive training materials and workshops on deep learning systems and applications in advanced GPU cyberinfrastructure. The University of North Texas will lead the effort in collaboration with Southern Illinois University Carbondale from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2024. Under the award, the University of North Texas will...
This $123,859 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a closed-loop machine learning (ML) pipeline that iteratively refines training data collection to improve the generalizability of ML models for diverse network environments. The key components of the project are: (1) designing a programmable data-collection platform to enable flexible and scalable...
This Project Grant award, valued at $150,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program. The project aims to develop a novel Next Generation (NextG) network design to support resilient Federated Learning (FL) over large-scale heterogeneous mobile devices. Key technical objectives include: Exploiting serverless computing at the network edge to provide resilient and efficient ML...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,410 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a collaborative learning framework for dynamic and diverse computing environments, particularly focused on edge devices. The grant, under NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), aims to innovate model-parallel collaborative learning by designing unique model architectures and efficient algorithms, facilitate practical on-device training and...