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HPC Innovation Excellence Award for “Liquid” Machine Learning

  • By Theresa Aichinger-Fankhauser
  • 2022-05-24
  • Excellence

Radu Grosu and his team at IST, MIT and TU Wien Informatics won the prestigious award for their research on bio-inspired neural networks.

Radu Grosu, Ramin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, Thomas Henzinger, Daniela Rus won the HPC Innovation Excellence Award.
Radu Grosu, Ramin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, Thomas Henzinger, Daniela Rus won the HPC Innovation Excellence Award.

Only a few of many reviewed achievements receive the renowned HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Radu Grosu, Professor and Head of the Research Unit Cyber-Physical Systems at TU Wien Informatics and the research team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Institue of Science and Technology Austria (IST) have excelled with their biologically inspired approach to neural networks.

Their “liquid” machine learning systems are a new type of neural networks with enhanced interpretability and robustness that learn the true cause and effect of tasks in changing real-world circumstances.

Find in-depth information in the team’s current publications:

  • R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, and Radu Grosu. Liquid Time-Constant Networks. In Proc. of AAAI’21, the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Conference, Feb, 2021.

  • M. Lechner, R. Hasani, A. Amini, T.A. Henzinger, D. Rus, and R. Grosu. Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy. In Nature Machine Intelligence, Volume 2, Pages 642–652, October, 2020.

  • M. Lechner, R. Hasani, M. Zimmer, T.A. Henzinger, and R. Grosu. Designing Worm-inspired Neural Networks for Interpretable Robotics Control. In Proc. of ICRA’19, the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Montreal, Canada, May, 2019

About the HPC Innovation Award

Since 2011, the HPC Innovation Awards have recognized outstanding achievements worldwide that were supported by the use of high-performance computing (HPC). Judges for the awards are the worldwide steering committee of the HPC User Forum, representing leading HPC user organizations in government, academia, and industry. Winners have ranged from government and academic research teams to some of the world’s largest corporations. The program’s goals are to showcase HPC-supported, real-world achievements with significant potential for benefiting humanity, achievements that demonstrate the value of HPC for research and development in government, academic or private-sector organizations.

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