Mila (research institute)

Coordinates: 45°31′51″N 73°36′49″W / 45.530722°N 73.613736°W / 45.530722; -73.613736
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Mila
Established1993 Edit this on Wikidata (31 years ago)
FoundersYoshua Bengio Edit this on Wikidata
LocationLittle Italy, Montreal
Coordinates45°31′51″N 73°36′49″W / 45.530722°N 73.613736°W / 45.530722; -73.613736 Edit this at Wikidata

Mila - Quebec AI Institute (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) is a

Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy. [2]

History

Mila traces its foundations to the Laboratoire d'informatique des systèmes adaptatifs (LISA)

Turing award winner and one of the founders of the field of deep learning[5][6][7] while the RL-Lab was founded in 2001 and is currently co-directed by Professors Prakash Panangaden, Doina Precup, Joëlle Pineau
, and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung.

In 2017, Mila was established as a partnership between the

École Polytechnique de Montréal and HEC Montréal
.

In December 2020, Mila teamed up with IBM to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research using open-source technology in a bid to integrate the Quebec institute’s open-source software, Oríon, with IBM’s Watson Machine Learning Accelerator, an AI model training and inference tool that the tech giant offers to businesses.[8]

Notable researchers

Besides Bengio, Mila's faculty members include Joëlle Pineau and Doina Precup. Some of its graduates include Marc Bellemare (MSc 2007 - RL-Lab), Hugo Larochelle (PhD 2009 - LISA) and Ian Goodfellow (PhD 2014 - LISA).

Research activities

Research at Mila is largely, but not exclusively focused on deep learning and reinforcement learning. Specific research topics include:

Board of Directors

Board of Directors that watch over Mila's strategic directions are:[9]

  • Alexandre Le Bouthillier, General Partner - Linearis
  • Alexandre Synett
  • Anne-Marie Hubert, Managing Partner - Ernst & Young
  • Benoit Boulet, Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) - McGill University
  • Caroline Aubé, Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer, HEC Montreal
  • Eugénie Brouillet, Associate Dean (Research, Creation and Innovation) - Université Laval
  • Frédéric Bouchard, Dean Faculty of Arts and Science - Université de Montréal
  • Josée Morin, Company Administrator
  • Magaly Charbonneau, Hi-tech Venture Capitalist - Inovia Capital
  • Marie-Josée Hébert, Vice Rector, Research, Discovery, Creation and Innovation - Université de Montréal
  • Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation - McGill University
  • Mathieu Gervais, Observer, Assistant Deputy Minister for Science and Innovation at the Ministère de l'Économie et de l'innovation
  • Pierre Boivin, President, Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer - Claridge
  • Valerie Pisano, Observer, Board of Directors, President and CEO - Mila
  • Yoshua Bengio, Observer, Board of Directors, Scientific Director, Mila & IVADO

Other activities

Mila is both a research and educational institution, providing

PhD and Master's degrees in machine learning
.

Mila members have also contributed to open-source software. Theano, one of the early programming frameworks for deep learning originated at MILA. In 2020, active projects included myia, a deep learning framework for Python, and baby-ai, a platform for simulating language learning with a human in the loop.[10]

In addition, Mila is also involved in numerous partnerships with private companies.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Mila website". mila.quebec. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  2. ^ "CIFAR AI Strategy". cifar.ca/ai. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  3. ^ "Laboratoire d'Informatique des Systèmes Adaptatifs". www.iro.umontreal.ca. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  4. ^ url=http://rl.cs.mcgill.ca/index.html
  5. ^ "Fathers of the Deep Learning revolution receive 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  6. ^ "Massive new centre for AI research opens in Montreal - Montreal | Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca. 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  7. ^ Desmond, John (2018-06-22). "Executive Interview: Yoshua Bengio of Mila, University of Montreal". AI Trends. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  8. ^ "Mila, IBM collaborating on open-source AI and machine learning project | BetaKit". 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  9. ^ "Mila's Board of Directors". 2023-05-08.
  10. ^ "Mila Github Page". github.com. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  11. ^ "Mila industrial partner list". mila.quebec. Retrieved 2022-06-20.

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