The eighth edition of the Artificial Intelligence Index Report was published last month. Released on a yearly basis, the aim of the document is to provide readers with accurate, rigorously validated, and globally sourced data to give insights into the progress of AI and its potential impact on society. The co-directors of the 2025 report are Yolanda Gil and Raymond … Read More
#AAAI2025 outstanding paper – DivShift: Exploring domain-specific distribution shift in large-scale, volunteer-collected biodiversity datasets
Citizen science platforms like iNaturalist have increased in popularity, fueling the rapid development of biodiversity foundation models. However, such data are inherently biased, and are collected in an opportunistic manner that often skews toward certain locations, times, species, observer experience levels, and states. Our work, titled “DivShift: Exploring Domain-Specific Distribution Shifts in Large-Scale, Volunteer-Collected Biodiversity Datasets,” tackles the challenge of … Read More
Defending against prompt injection with structured queries (StruQ) and preference optimization (SecAlign)
By Sizhe Chen, Julien Piet, Chawin Sitawarin, David Wagner, Arman Zharmagambetov, Saeed Mahloujifar, Kamalika Chaudhuri, and Chuan Guo Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them. Prompt injection attack is listed as the #1 threat by OWASP to LLM-integrated applications, where an LLM input contains a … Read More
Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: May 2025 edition
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 May and 30 June 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 5 May 2025 Gurobi Machine Learning Speaker: Roland Wunderling (Gurobi Optimisation) Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies To receive the seminar link, sign … Read More
Automation applied to technical drawings in industry: Interview with Vasil Shteriyanov
In their paper Automating the Expansion of Instrument Typicals in Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), presented at The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2025), Vasil Shteriyanov, Rimma Dzhusupova, Jan Bosch and Helena Holmström Olsson focus on automation of technical drawings in industry. In this interview, Vasil tells us more about their work. What is the … Read More
Competition open for images of “digital transformation at work”
The ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) and Better Images of AI (BIoAI) are delighted to announce a competition to reimagine the visual communication of how work is changing in the digital age, including through the adoption of AI. Digit has undertaken a significant five-year research programme culminating in insights about real-world digital transformations currently impacting people’s daily … Read More
AIhub monthly digest: April 2025 – aligning GenAI with technical standards, ML applied to semiconductor manufacturing, and social choice problems
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we find out about aligning generative AI with technical standards, learn how machine learning can be applied to semiconductor manufacturing, investigate social choice problems, and hear about the return of the … Read More
#ICLR2025 social media round-up
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025) took place in Singapore from 24-28 April 2025. The conference featured 12 invited talks, poster sessions, oral presentations, workshops, and socials. We’ve gathered some social media posts from attendees to give you a flavour of the event. Come see us in any of the following sessions on model understanding and evaluation! … Read More
Copilot Arena: A platform for code
Figure 1. Copilot Arena is a VSCode extension that collects human preferences of code directly from developers. By Wayne Chi, Valerie Chen, Chris Donahue, Ameet Talwalkar As model capabilities improve, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into user environments and workflows. In particular, software developers code with LLM-powered tools in integrated development environments such as VS Code, IntelliJ, or … Read More
Coinbase moves to launch XRP futures as derivatives expansion continues
XRP futures filing made under CFTC’s self-certification process. Ripple paid $50 million in SEC settlement last month. Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, and others filed for XRP ETFs Coinbase has taken another major step in expanding its derivatives offerings by seeking regulatory approval to launch an XRP futures contract. The US-based crypto exchange submitted documentation on Thursday to the Commodity Futures Trading … Read More