Project Grant 2551504
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the Regents of the University of Michigan $425,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop theoretical foundations and algorithms for multiclass classification in machine learning. The project extends margin-based theory from two-class classification to many-category problems, focusing on surrogate loss functions and relative...
- 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 $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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $330,438 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a unified theory of information-computation tradeoffs for statistical tasks. The project establishes lower bounds in restricted but broad computational models, including low-degree polynomials, statistical queries, polynomial threshold functions, and the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $172,913 project grant to Illinois Institute of Technology on June 15, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). This CRII (Career Research Initiation) award supports research extending through May 31, 2027, focused on developing methodologies for uncertainty estimation and robustness in hierarchical classification systems....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $999,999 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop novel techniques enabling large language models to succeed at complex mathematical and coding tasks while addressing inference efficiency concerns. The project focuses on diffusion-based LLMs that achieve global token awareness by modeling joint token...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded The University of Chicago $360,549 on June 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop artificial intelligence technologies that enable intuitive creation and modification of three-dimensional mesh models. The project establishes computational foundations for AI systems operating directly on meshes, the dominant geometric representation in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $530,625 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop multimodal generative artificial intelligence models for autonomous biomolecular design and accelerated discovery. The research will create a unified, self-improving AI framework that integrates molecular sequence and three-dimensional structure co-design with...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded the University of Illinois $356,787 on July 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds research and educational activities developing self-regulating artificial intelligence agents capable of monitoring their reasoning, drawing on past experience to evaluate and explain decisions, and adapting their internal understanding based on corrective...
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $1,200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) and will support the creation of knowledge through all-novel-class computer vision research from September 2021 through August 2025. As part of the grant, the University will conduct investigator-initiated research and education in computer...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Illinois Institute of Technology $425,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on multiclass classification foundations in machine learning. The project develops theory and algorithms for multiclass classification—the machine learning task of assigning objects, signals, images, or measurements into one of many possible categories—with applications to species identification, biological cell recognition, material detection, and nanoparticle classification. The research extends margin-based theory from two-class to many-class problems, studying loss functions that focus on relative comparisons among class scores rather than absolute score assignments. The work addresses three main research directions: statistical theory for multiclass surrogate loss functions including settings with very large numbers of classes, computational efficiency and algorithmic advances, and reliability frameworks for determining when classification methods can be trusted. The project will produce research articles, tutorial materials, and open-source software, and will support student training. Performance occurs at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, with a period of performance from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029. This is a project grant, the standard assistance type for NSF investigator-initiated research awards.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $425.0k | 7/30/26 |