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Academic labs

A university lab, department or public research institute, such as MIT CSAIL or Mila.

50 labs

LabFounded
AI4BharatAcademic · Chennai, INIIT Madras lab building open datasets, tools and models for Indian languages.n/a
Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab)Academic · Amsterdam, NetherlandsUniversity of Amsterdam lab on deep generative models, probabilistic ML and geometric deep learning.n/a
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)Academic · Berkeley, California, United StatesDiffusion models (DDPM), NeRF, robot learning, and open chat models such as Vicuna.n/a
Berkeley Sky Computing LabAcademic · Berkeley, California, United StatesThe systems lab after AMPLab (Spark) and RISELab (Ray): vLLM, SkyPilot and Chatbot Arena.n/a
Cambridge Machine Learning Group (MLG)Academic · Cambridge, United KingdomMachine learning group in the Cambridge Department of Engineering, known for probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning.n/a
Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)Academic · Berkeley, United StatesUC Berkeley AI safety research center founded in 2016 by a group led by Stuart Russell.2016
CILVR Lab (Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics)Academic · New York, United StatesNYU machine learning and vision lab founded in 2009 by Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.2009
CMU Database GroupAcademic · Pittsburgh, United StatesDatabase systems research and teaching in the open: self-driving databases, NoisePage and the Database of Databases.n/a
CMU Language Technologies Institute (LTI)Academic · Pittsburgh, United StatesCMU institute for language technologies, begun in 1986 as the Center for Machine Translation and renamed LTI in 1996.1986
CMU Machine Learning DepartmentAcademic · Pittsburgh, United StatesThe world's first machine learning department: Libratus poker, Transformer-XL, XLNet and Mamba.2006
CMU Robotics InstituteAcademic · Pittsburgh, United StatesCMU robotics department founded in 1979, known for computer vision, autonomous vehicles and the first robotics PhD program.1979
Columbia Data Science InstituteAcademic · New York, United StatesUniversity-wide data science institute at Columbia, founded in 2012 within Columbia Engineering.2012
CWI Database ArchitecturesAcademic · Amsterdam, NetherlandsColumn stores and vectorized execution: MonetDB, X100 (Vectorwise) and the research that became DuckDB.n/a
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)Academic · Lugano, SwitzerlandSwiss AI institute in Lugano founded in 1988, known for early deep learning and recurrent network research.1988
EdinburghNLPAcademic · Edinburgh, United KingdomUniversity of Edinburgh NLP group, known for machine translation work including subword (BPE) units and the Nematus toolkit.n/a
EPFL Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO)Academic · Lausanne, SwitzerlandEPFL lab on optimization and distributed machine learning, known for sent2vec and the MEDITRON medical LLMs.n/a
ETH AI CenterAcademic · Zurich, SwitzerlandETH Zurich's cross-department AI hub and a driver of the Swiss AI Initiative's open Apertus model.2020
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience UnitAcademic · London, United KingdomUCL unit set up by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1998 for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning; Geoffrey Hinton was founding director.1998
Hazy ResearchAcademic · Stanford, United StatesChris Re's Stanford group on ML systems, known for FlashAttention, Snorkel weak supervision and structured state space models.n/a
Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua UniversityAcademic · Beijing, ChinaTsinghua institute for applied AI research in health, transportation and IoT, led by Dean Zhang Ya-Qin.n/a
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking UniversityAcademic · Beijing, ChinaPeking University institute announced on 27 April 2019 to coordinate university-wide AI research and training.2019
IVADOAcademic · Montreal, CanadaQuebec's largest interdisciplinary AI research, training and knowledge transfer consortium, led by Université de Montréal.n/a
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial IntelligenceAcademic · Allston, United StatesHarvard institute studying intelligence in brains and machines, funded by a Chan Zuckerberg gift in 2021.2021
Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)Academic · Atlanta, United StatesInterdisciplinary machine learning research center at Georgia Tech, founded in 2016.2016
Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, University of TokyoAcademic · Tokyo, JapanUniversity of Tokyo deep learning lab working on world models, robotics and LLMs, with many spin-off startups.n/a
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsAcademic · Stuttgart, GermanyCausal inference and kernel methods (Scholkopf), and the SMPL body model used across graphics and vision.2011
MilaAcademic · Montreal, CanadaYoshua Bengio's institute: neural language models, attention for translation, GANs and Theano.1993
MIT CSAILAcademic · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesMIT's largest lab: robotics, the Julia language, adversarial robustness and the lottery ticket hypothesis.2003
MIT Data Systems Group (DSG)Academic · Cambridge, United StatesMIT CSAIL group researching data management, from query processing to learned database systems such as SageDB.n/a
MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)Academic · Cambridge, United StatesMIT and IBM joint research lab, evolved from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab that began in 2017.2017
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)Academic · Abu Dhabi, AEGraduate research university dedicated to AI in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, licensed in 2020.2020
NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML)Academic · Austin, United StatesNSF AI institute led by UT Austin, designated in 2020, working on foundational machine learning theory and tools.2020
NYU Center for Data ScienceAcademic · New York, United StatesNYU's university-wide data science center, founded in 2013 with Yann LeCun as founding director.2013
Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML)Academic · Oxford, United KingdomOxford Computer Science group led by Yarin Gal, working on Bayesian deep learning, uncertainty and AI safety.n/a
Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI)Academic · Princeton, United StatesPrinceton university-wide initiative on large AI models and their use across the sciences and humanities.n/a
Princeton NLP GroupAcademic · Princeton, United StatesPrinceton natural language processing group behind SimCSE, SWE-bench and Tree of Thoughts.n/a
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)Academic · Stanford, United StatesStanford's umbrella AI lab for research and teaching across machine learning, vision, NLP and robotics since 1963.1963
Stanford DAWNAcademic · Stanford, United StatesFive-year Stanford project (2018 to 2022) on tools to democratize ML, including DAWNBench, Snorkel and ColBERT.2018
Stanford HAI and CRFMAcademic · Stanford, California, United StatesThe AI Index, the term foundation models, the HELM benchmark and Alpaca, from Stanford's AI institute.2019
Stanford NLP GroupAcademic · Stanford, United StatesStanford natural language processing group behind GloVe, SQuAD, CoreNLP, Stanza and DSPy.n/a
Swiss AI InitiativeAcademic · SwitzerlandSwiss open foundation model effort started in December 2023 by ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS, which released the Apertus LLM.2023
Tsinghua KEGAcademic · Beijing, ChinaTsinghua's knowledge engineering group: AMiner, the GLM and ChatGLM models (with Zhipu), CogVLM and AgentBench.n/a
Tsinghua NLP Lab (THUNLP)Academic · Beijing, ChinaTsinghua natural language processing lab known for knowledge-enhanced language models and the MiniCPM small LLMs.n/a
Tübingen AI CenterAcademic · Tübingen, GermanyTübingen machine learning center of about 25 research groups, funded by the German federal and Baden-Württemberg governments.n/a
TUM Database SystemsAcademic · Munich, GermanyCompiled query execution in main-memory and disk-based systems (HyPer, Umbra), from Thomas Neumann's group.n/a
UCLA NLPAcademic · Los Angeles, United StatesUCLA NLP group, known for the VisualBERT vision-language model and the MathVista benchmark.n/a
University of Toronto Machine Learning GroupAcademic · Toronto, CanadaMachine learning faculty group in Toronto's Department of Computer Science, home of the AlexNet and dropout papers.n/a
UW Database GroupAcademic · Seattle, United StatesUniversity of Washington group on data management systems, cloud services, probabilistic databases and data pricing.n/a
UW NLPAcademic · Seattle, United StatesUniversity of Washington natural language processing group behind ELMo, Self-Instruct and QLoRA.n/a
Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of OxfordAcademic · Oxford, United KingdomOxford computer vision group known for the VGG convolutional networks and the VGGFace2 dataset.n/a

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