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Building Better Models Starts With Reexamining the Metrics
USC computer scientists present a better way to measure the performance of generative AI models at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

Predicting the Future, Starting With Billiard Balls and Car Collisions
An ISI team identifies limitations in dynamics prediction and proposes a solution.

USC at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
USC researchers will present nine papers at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), the leading international conference on machine learning.

ISI at ACL ’23: Learning from Games, Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias and Searching Events in Hundreds of Languages
USC’s Information Science Institute (ISI) brings a host of research to the conference – from dialogue models to machine learning to semantic understanding and more.

Dungeons & Dragons: Leading the Conversation through Intents and Theory-of-Mind
Researchers dive into the study of teacher-student natural language interactions to achieve a shared goal in the fantasy world game, Dungeons & Dragons.

Codenames Duet: Predicting the Next Guess Based on Cultural Background
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers dive into the nuances of human behavior and how cultural markers affect decision-making.

Understanding Global Events in Every Language
USC researchers have developed a novel AI technique to pull information from vast amounts of globally sourced text.

USC to Lead Interdisciplinary Project on Mental Health
A collaborative effort with UCLA will predict psychological health risk factors

This Chatbot Sounds Familiar
USC researchers have proposed a novel method to give personalities to language models.

Adam Russell to Lead USC Information Sciences Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Division
Russell sees AI from an anthropologist’s perspective – looking at human behavior in an era of machines, with an expertise in collective intelligence and cross-disciplinary thinking.