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Recent years have seen a surge in machine learning models to solve combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. The field of combinatorial optimization is a historical field of research and application in computer science. After decades of progress, very efficient algorithms exist to provide exact solutions or approximate solutions to many CO problems. The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) stands as a prominent example of this fact: the TSP is very appealing as it is very simple to understand, it has a wide range of applications, and we are able to solve exactly rather large instances of this problem on a mere laptop (an instance defined over a few thousands cities can be solved within one hour), and we have approximate algorithms that are able to find tours that are very close to optimality (LKH3 [4] can solve instances of 40,000 cities in about one hour on a laptop but we have no guarantee that the result is optimal). These facts can not be forgotten when we try to propose alternate approaches to solve the TSP. Because of its appeal, the TSP has also drawn the attention of researchers in deep neural networks in the recent years. If the first attempts had difficulties solving even small TSP instances of a dozen cities, progress has been made. In this paper, we build on these previous works and go a step further.

Today, we're announcing a long-term AI research initiative to better understand how the human brain processes speech and text. In collaboration with neuroimaging center Neurospin (CEA) and Inria, we're comparing how AI language models and the brain respond to the same spoken or written sentences. We'll use insights from this work to guide the development of AI that processes speech and text as efficiently as people. Over the past two years, we've applied deep learning techniques to public neuroimaging data sets to analyze how the brain processes words and sentences. AI has made impressive strides in recent years, but it's still far from learning language as efficiently as humans.

Digitalisation is a strategic priority for public healthcare policy: major innovations in medicine are expected from the development of IT tools and the generalisation of digital models, which will contribute to improving the efficiency of healthcare systems and services, writes Inria in this press release.. In order to guide the digital transition of this sector in the Lyon region, Inria and the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), the second largest hospital centre in France after AP-HP (Paris), are pooling their expertise to create a centre for the development of artificial intelligence and a joint project team dedicated to digital models for neuroscience. On July 2021, the two bodies signed a "memorandum of understanding", prior to concluding a framework agreement for tripartite collaboration (Inria / HCL / Claude Bernard–Lyon 1 University), thus officialising the details of this shared ambition. "The signing of a large-scale partnership between Lyon Public Hospitals and Inria testifies to the firm positioning of the University Hospital and its academic partners with regard to digital healthcare", says Raymond Le Moign, Managing Director of Hospices Civils de Lyon. "For the last ten years, the application of digital science in the healthcare sector has been a key focal point for Inria. Almost a third of its teams lead research which opens opportunities in this field", according to Hugues Berry, senior researcher in molecular neuroscience and Deputy Scientific Director at Inria.

A few days ago, Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel, Bertrand Thirion, and myself received the "Académie des Sciences Inria prize for transfer", for our contributions to the scikit-learn project. To put things simply, it's quite a big deal to me, because I feel that it illustrates a change of culture in academia. It is a great honor, because the selection was made by the members of the Académie des Sciences, very accomplished scientists with impressive contributions to science. The "Académie" is the hallmark of fundamental academic science in France. To me, this prize is also symbolic because it recognizes an open view of academic research and transfer, a view that sometimes felt as not playing according to the incentives.

Software is becoming the fabric that binds our personal and social lives, embodying a vast part of the technological knowledge that powers our industry and fuels innovation. Software is a pillar of most scientific research activities in all fields, from mathematics to physics, from chemistry to biology, from finance to social sciences. Software is also an essential mediator for accessing any digital information. In short, a rapidly increasing part of our collective knowledge is embodied in, or dependent on, software artifacts. Our ability to design, use, understand, adapt, and evolve systems and devices on which our lives have come to depend relies on our ability to understand, adapt, and evolve the source code of the software that controls them.

After more than ten years of collaboration in a joint research partnership, Microsoft and Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Sciences) have launched phase four of their initiative, with one key goal – to accelerate the deployment and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within France's technology ecosystem. This new phase of the partnership between Microsoft and Inria will focus on AI technology to unleash its potential, while putting it at the service of French companies. The launch focuses on two key framework components – research, and the transfer of skills and expertise. In addition to this research, both organizations will also share their knowledge and guidance with the startups of the AI Factory program, developed by Microsoft France, Inria, and Station F. Both partners will intensify the support received by these startups, enabling them to benefit from the expertise, learnings and applications resulting from the work carried out by researchers from Microsoft Research and Inria. The digital transformation projects deployed by Microsoft on behalf of major French companies will also accelerate their implementation and enable the French economy's flagship organizations to stimulate the development of new products and applications.

Munich: Fujitsu has embarked on a long-term research and co-creation program with the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria). Just one year after the start of their partnership, the two organizations have formally committed to even closer collaboration, reflecting Fujitsu's commitment to driving digital innovation in France. This new program combines Inria's expertise in AI-focused research and development with Fujitsu's technology. A joint team comprising engineers from Fujitsu in Japan and Inria will work closely together, focused on developing new Artificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques by leveraging advanced mathematics and computing. Artificial intelligence will be deployed to interpret IoT data, to generate insights for customers.

To avoid misuse of artificial intelligence, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed setting up a panel akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. France is going big on artificial intelligence (AI). President Emmanuel Macron yesterday announced a €1.5 billion plan to turn his country into a world leader for AI research and innovation, a field dominated by the United States and China. It calls for a hefty investment, a handful of specialized institutes, a focus on ethics and open data, and a call to recruit foreign researchers and French scientists working abroad to the country, not unlike Macron's 2017 "Make Our Planet Great Again" climate initiative. Macron presented his plans in a lengthy speech peppered with erudite references and touches of humor at the end of the"AI for Humanity" conference in Paris.

If you are a Python programmer or you are looking for a robust library you can use to bring machine learning into a production system then a library that you will want to seriously consider is scikit-learn. In this post you will get an overview of the scikit-learn library and useful references of where you can learn more. Scikit-learn was initially developed by David Cournapeau as a Google summer of code project in 2007. Later Matthieu Brucher joined the project and started to use it as apart of his thesis work. In 2010 INRIA got involved and the first public release (v0.1 beta) was published in late January 2010.