Vertaix® (AI & Science)

Research lab @Princeton led by @adjiboussodieng. We develop theory and computational methods to tackle challenges in AI and the natural sciences.

[Vertaix® (AI & Science) @Vertaix_]

Our VBO paper is now published in @ChemicalScience ✨ This paper proposes a novel algorithm that combines the Vendi Score with Bayesian Optimization to discover MOFs with desired properties.

We discovered thermally stable and energy-efficient MOFs with a high storage capacity for NH3.

Code: https://t.co/Xq60OMzZPB
Paper: https://t.co/KbdLzxJ9gB
Authors: Tsung-Wei Liu✨, Quan Nguyen✨, Adji Bousso Dieng🎉, and  Diego A. Gómez-Gualdrón🎉

✨ = co-first author
🎉 = co-corresponding author

#VendiScoring #BayesianOptimization #MOFs #MaterialsScience #CompChem #Vertaix #MyFirstChemSci

[Princeton Engineering @EPrinceton]

.@adjiboussodieng, an expert in artificial intelligence, has won an @NSF CAREER Award, one of the top honors for early career faculty. Read more from @PrincetonCS: https://t.co/PHsVAv4yAT

[Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences]

Congratulations to AI2050 Early Career Fellow @adjiboussodieng on receiving an NSF CAREER Award for her research developing AI methods for materials discovery, with applications ranging from next-generation medicines to improved solar cells.

Read more: https://t.co/VnySn3kmYA

[Adji Bousso Dieng @adjiboussodieng]

Thank you to the United States National Science Foundation (@NSF) for believing in the research we are pioneering @Vertaix_: a new paradigm for #AI centered on discovery.

Current AI runs into a problem I'll call 'mode collapse' which prevents it from genuine scientific discovery. My group will continue to work on a new AI paradigm called "Investigative Intelligence" that will enable novel discoveries by mitigating mode collapse. This work is based on the work we've been doing around diversity, which I believe to be the right primitive for discovery.

This award would not have been possible without the amazing grad students, postdocs, and collaborators I have had the chance to work with. Thank you all🧡 #VendiScore #AI #II #Discovery #Science

[Princeton Computer Science @PrincetonCS]

.@adjiboussodieng has won a CAREER award from the @NSF, a top honor for early career faculty!

Dieng is working to establish a new paradigm for AI, transforming it into an engine for scientific exploration that can uncover revolutionary new materials.

https://t.co/SZWrrbXc0u

[Andre Niyongabo Rubungo @andre_niyongabo]

@Vertaix_ @the_subtrahend Congratulations Quan! We will miss you!

[Amey Pasarkar @apasarkar22]

@Vertaix_ @the_subtrahend Congrats Quan! Best of luck on your new chapter

[Vertaix® (AI & Science) @Vertaix_]

Hearty congratulations to Quan Nguyen (@the_subtrahend) who is joining Fulbright University Vietnam as a tenure-track faculty ✨ While at Vertaix, Quan has led work on novel methods for diverse experimental design for scientific discovery. We'll miss you 🧡#Princeton #AI4Science

[Princeton Engineering @EPrinceton]

Congratulations, @adjiboussodieng! Profound observations and a great cause.

[Adji Bousso Dieng @adjiboussodieng]

It was an absolute honor to be this year's keynote speaker for the @FieldMuseum's Women in Science Luncheon. I met truly wonderful people. More than $300K was raised toward initiatives that support women in STEM.

My keynote traced the history of AI---a fascinating journey of ambition, hitting walls, and breaking through them---and looked ahead to its future. Going forward we face an important choice in how we build these systems: we can dismiss diversity and build AI that simply imitates us, or we can embrace diversity and build AI that partners with us to explore the unknown and expand human knowledge.

I shared how we are actively doing this work through algorithmic diversity @Vertaix_ and human diversity @theafricaiknow_.

Grateful to the Women's Board for such a fantastic event and conversation 💚 #WomenInSTEM #Science @PrincetonCS @Princeton @PrincetonMSE @PrincetonInnov

[Princeton Computer Science @PrincetonCS]

This year's keynote speaker at the @FieldMuseum's Women in Science Luncheon was @adjiboussodieng. The event supports opportunities for women in science.

Dieng discussed her research @Vertaix_ and her work with @theafricaiknow_.

https://t.co/1IOM3No7cT

[Princeton Innovation @PrincetonInnov]

Next up in our "Faces of Innovation" series: Adji Bousso Dieng, @PrincetonCS faculty member and leader of Vertaix, a research group at the intersection of AI and the natural sciences.

Read more: https://t.co/807Aw21Utd

[RFI @RFI]

L'Invité Afrique - Adji Bousso Dieng: «les pays du Sud global, doivent pouvoir développer leur propre IA» https://t.co/4quZXVLLEC via @RFIAfrique

[UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies @ODET_UN]

Read the UN Secretary-General's remarks to the First Meeting of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence: https://t.co/UlbdeQsRDP

[Andlinger Center @AndlingerCenter]

Our February newsletter features:

✅ Experts at our Annual Meeting are focused on achieving true circularity.

✅ We welcome an alumnus as a visiting fellow in energy and architecture.

✅ Claire White receives 2026 Robert L’Hermite Medal.

And more: https://t.co/JYd3G2SH6o

[Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences]

Schmidt Sciences grantees @adjiboussodieng, an AI2050 Fellow, and @Yoshua_Bengio, a Science of Trustworthy AI grantee, were recently appointed by the @UN General Assembly to serve on the inaugural Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: https://t.co/y4qHZcZEHT

[Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @PrincetonCITP]

Congratulations to Professors Adji Bousso Dieng (@adjiboussodieng) & Aleksandra Korolova (@korolova) on being named to the @UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

The panel is tasked with the critical charge of bridging AI research and policymaking.

[Princeton Computer Science @PrincetonCS]

Faculty members @adjiboussodieng and @korolova have been named to the @UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

Composed of 40 experts, the panel is the first global scientific body dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence.

https://t.co/8UwnfX2r6O

[Adji Bousso Dieng @adjiboussodieng]

On Feb 12, the @UN General Assembly formally appointed the 40 members of the first Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. I am honored to join this historic effort to place science at the heart of global #AI governance, ensuring this technology benefits all of humanity.

Learn more about the panel members here: https://t.co/76QguWXVrn
#AI #Science #Governance #Service

[Vertaix® (AI & Science) @Vertaix_]

#NewPaper Out-of-distribution detection is important for the safe deployment of AI systems and for scientific discovery. In a new paper led by @apasarkar22, we introduce the ✨Vendi Novelty Score✨, a new flexible novelty and OOD detector that frames OOD detection from a diversity perspective. VNS is linear-time (fast) and achieves state-of-the-art performance on OOD detection benchmarks.

Bonus: it is low-resource-friendly in that it retains that good performance using only 1% of the training data.

Paper: https://t.co/d6aqLg6zcu
Authors: @apasarkar22 @adjiboussodieng

[Hyunwoo Kim @hyunw_kim]

Building Privasis requires no seed data beyond first names. We use auxiliary variables to generate realistic records (which you can control!), then apply a diversity-preserving refinement method based on the Vendi score. We open our code to let you build your own Privasis!
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