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Intelligent Systems Lab
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A lab developing next-generation artificial intelligence that adapts to change and withstands attacks.

AboutAbout the lab
Next-generation AI that withstands change and attacks.
The Intelligent Systems Lab develops next-generation artificial intelligence with robustness and adaptability.
Today's state-of-the-art AI cannot play 9x9 Go even after learning 19x19 Go, and its image recognition can be fooled by changing just one pixel.
The lab therefore aims to improve robustness and adaptability by developing new mechanisms and paradigms of intelligence.
Lab members can use state-of-the-art CPU and GPU servers.
Key terms
- Robustness
- The property of maintaining performance despite noise, attacks, or changes in the environment
- Reinforcement learning
- A framework regarded as the most general paradigm of machine learning, in which a system learns how to act from experience
- Evolutionary computation
- A computational method that, by analogy with biological evolution, searches for good solutions while changing a model's structure and weights from generation to generation
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to develop next-generation artificial intelligence with robustness and adaptability. It studies new learning mechanisms using reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation, analyses that probe learning systems by attacking them, and new optimization methods.
*Illustrative imageClassifiers that adapt to changing situations
The lab studies NOTC, a method that unifies two paradigms of reinforcement learning. Self-Organizing Classifiers, the family NOTC belongs to, update their states automatically through experience and can adapt even when a problem changes, such as a maze whose shape changes.
*Illustrative imageNeural models that evolve their structure
The lab studies SUNA, which unifies the functions of most proposed neurons into a single Unified Neural Model through reinforcement learning based on evolutionary computation. It evolves its own structure and can learn non-Markov problems.
*Illustrative imageHacking artificial intelligence
By attacking learning systems, the lab investigates how they understand categories such as "horse" and "ship." Because changing just one pixel can change the classification, the lab showed that these systems cannot be said to understand intelligently.
*Illustrative imageSAN: simple yet strong multi-objective optimization
SAN is a very simple multi-objective optimization algorithm that outperformed all other algorithms on the most difficult multi-objective benchmarks. The lab's analysis attributes this to its use of independent subpopulations, which avoid competition within the population of candidate solutions.
MembersFaculty
The Intelligent Systems Lab consists of faculty members, research assistants, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and interns.
- Associate ProfessorDanilo Vasconcelos Vargas
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Automatix Kuka robot being integrated.agr” ArnoldReinhold / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Classifiers that adapt to changing situations: “Active Learning Algorithm Used To Train Majority of Text2Image Model” MrAlanKoh / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Neural models that evolve their structure: “Artificial Neural Network with Chip” mikemacmarketing / original posted on flickr Liam Huang / clipped and posted on flickr / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Hacking artificial intelligence: “Hacker111” Sebastiaan ter Burg / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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