Professor Sameer Singh and his group have developed a thriving partnership working with researcher Dr. Matt Gardner and colleagues from the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), producing a series of high-profile papers in the past several months on topics such as language modeling and automated question answering systems. AI2 is providing funding to support graduate student researchers who work closely with AI2 researchers co-located in the Computer Science Department in Donald Bren Hall.

Professor Pierre Baldi, with PhD students Forest Agostinelli and Stephen McAleer, and senior Alexander Shmakov, have developed a deep reinforcement learning approach to solve Rubik’s cube problems, solving typical problems in about 20 moves. The work was published in Nature Machine Intelligence.