We are the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML)
Designated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2020, IFML develops the key foundational tools for the next decade of AI innovation. Our institute comprises researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, University of Washington, Wichita State University, Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, University of Nevada-Reno, Boston College, CalTech, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Los Angeles.
Our researchers create new algorithms that can help machines learn on the fly, change their expectations as they encounter people and objects in real life, and even bounce back from deliberate attempts by adversaries to manipulate datasets.
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UT Expands Research on AI Accuracy and Reliability to Support Breakthroughs in Science, Technology and the Workforce
AUSTIN, Texas — A National Science Foundation artificial intelligence institute based at The University of Texas at Austin will receive continued funding for research that will improve the accuracy and reliability of AI models...
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NSF IFML Podcast: From Research Discovery to Real-World Impact
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NSF IFML Researchers Win Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2025
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Can AI Make Critical Communications Chips Easier to Design?
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The Future of Protein Engineering: Unlocking Evolutionary Insights & Stability
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New IFML Framework for Diffusion Models to be included in several production pipelines by teams in Google
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Turbocharging Protein Engineering with AI
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IFML research collaborations power next generation of multimodal AI with OpenCLIP and DataComp
OpenCLIP, the main text/image encoder in Stable Diffusion, is in the top 1% of all Python packages and has more than 50,000 git clones per day. DataComp, is the first rigorous benchmark for advancing multimodal dataset creation.
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Smoothed Analysis for Learning Concepts with Low Intrinsic Dimension earns Best Paper Award at COLT 2024!
Authored by IFML Director Adam Klivans, students Gautam Chandrasekaran, Konstantinos Stavropoulos, IFML postdoc Vasilis Kontonis, and former UT CS PhD Raghu Meka
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Now, Later, and Lasting: 10 Priorities for AI Research, Policy, and Practice
Shaping the future of artificial intelligence
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Can AI Make Critical Communications Chips Easier to Design?
NSF IFML Director Adam Klivans part of multi-university team and industry team formed to accelerate AI-driven design of radio frequency integrated circuits.