Mila, IBM collaborating on open-source AI and machine learning project

Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila) and IBM have teamed up to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research using open-source technology. Mila and IBM have been collaborating since early 2020 on a project that is meant to make a key component of AI, known as hyperparameter optimization, more accessible. The organizations claim that this would improve machine learning model performances and pinpoint within the'black box' of AI where models need work. "A collaboration with…IBM is a great opportunity to accelerate the development of an open-source solution…initiated at Mila." – Yoshua Bengio, Mila The two organizations are looking to integrate the Quebec institute's open-source software, Oríon, with IBM's Watson Machine Learning Accelerator, an AI model training and inference tool that the tech giant offers to businesses. The overall goal, they claim, is to "improve the development, deployment, and ongoing management of complex AI and deep learning models, as well as to make tools more accessible to a larger base of scientists, engineers, and developers through automation."