Students often report difficulties in accessing day-to-day academic information, which is usually spread across numerous institutional documents and websites. This fragmentation results in a lack of clarity and causes confusion about routine university information. This project proposes the development of a chatbot using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to simplify access to such information. Several GenAI models were tested and evaluated based on quality metrics and the LLM-as-a-Judge approach. Among them, Gemini 2.0 Flash stood out for its quality and speed, and Gemma 3n for its good performance and open-source nature.

Creating programs to represent board games can be a time-consuming task. Large Language Models (LLMs) arise as appealing tools to expedite this process, given their capacity to efficiently generate code from simple contextual information. In this work, we propose a method to test how capable three LLMs (Claude, DeepSeek and ChatGPT) are at creating code for board games, as well as new variants of existing games.

The cloze test, widely used due to its low cost and flexibility, makes it possible to assess reading comprehension by filling in gaps in texts, requiring the mobilization of diverse linguistic repertoires. However, traditional correction methods, based only on exact answers, limit the identification of nuances in student performance. This study proposes an automated evaluation model for the cloze test in Brazilian Portuguese, integrating orthographic (edit distance), grammatical (POS tagging) and semantic (similarity between embeddings) analyses. The integrated method demonstrated its effectiveness, achieving a high correlation with human evaluation (0.832). The results indicate that the automated approach is robust, sensitive to variations in linguistic repertoire and suitable for educational contexts that require scalability.

This study presents the development of Geolog-IA, a novel conversational system based on artificial intelligence that responds naturally to questions about geology theses from the Central University of Ecuador. Our proposal uses the Llama 3.1 and Gemini 2.5 language models, which are complemented by a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and an SQLite database. This strategy allows us to overcome problems such as hallucinations and outdated knowledge. The evaluation of Geolog-IA's performance with the BLEU metric reaches an average of 0.87, indicating high consistency and accuracy in the responses generated. The system offers an intuitive, web-based interface that facilitates interaction and information retrieval for directors, teachers, students, and administrative staff at the institution. This tool can be a key support in education, training, and research and establishes a basis for future applications in other disciplines.

Training large-scale deep learning models has become a key challenge for the scientific community and industry. While the massive use of GPUs can significantly speed up training times, this approach has a negative impact on efficiency. In this article, we present a detailed analysis of the times reported by MLPerf Training v4.1 on four workloads: BERT, Llama2 LoRA, RetinaNet, and Stable Diffusion, showing that there are configurations that optimise the relationship between performance, GPU usage, and efficiency. The results point to a break-even point that allows training times to be reduced while maximising efficiency.

Facial recognition powered by Artificial Intelligence has achieved high accuracy in specific scenarios and applications. Nevertheless, it faces significant challenges regarding privacy and identity management, particularly when unknown individuals appear in the operational context. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a facial recognition system within a federated learning framework tailored to open-set scenarios. The proposed approach integrates the OpenMax algorithm into federated learning, leveraging the exchange of mean activation vectors and local distance measures to reliably distinguish between known and unknown subjects. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed solution, demonstrating its potential for enhancing privacy-aware and robust facial recognition in distributed environments. -- El reconocimiento facial impulsado por Inteligencia Artificial ha demostrado una alta precisión en algunos escenarios y aplicaciones. Sin embargo, presenta desafíos relacionados con la privacidad y la identificación de personas, especialmente considerando que pueden aparecer sujetos desconocidos para el sistema que lo implementa. En este trabajo, se propone el diseño, implementación y evaluación de un sistema de reconocimiento facial en un escenario de aprendizaje federado, orientado a conjuntos abiertos. Concretamente, se diseña una solución basada en el algoritmo OpenMax para escenarios de aprendizaje federado. La propuesta emplea el intercambio de los vectores de activación promedio y distancias locales para identificar de manera eficaz tanto personas conocidas como desconocidas. Los experimentos realizados demuestran la implementación efectiva de la solución propuesta.

Machine unlearning aims to remove private or sensitive data from a pre-trained model while preserving the model's robustness. Despite recent advances, this technique has not been explored in medical image classification. This work evaluates the SalUn unlearning model by conducting experiments on the PathMNIST, OrganAMNIST, and BloodMNIST datasets. W e also analyze the impact of data augmentation on the quality of unlearning. Results show that SalUn achieves performance close to full retraining, indicating an efficient solution for use in medical applications.

The growing availability of music on streaming platforms has led to information overload for users. To address this issue and enhance the user experience, increasingly sophisticated recommendation systems have been proposed. This work investigates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) from the Gemini and LLaMA families, combined with intelligent agents, in a multi-agent personalized music recommendation system. The results are compared with a traditional content-based recommendation model, considering user satisfaction, novelty, and computational efficiency. LLMs achieved satisfaction rates of up to \textit{89{,}32\%}, indicating their promising potential in music recommendation systems.

The production of digital documents has been growing rapidly in academic, business, and health environments, presenting new challenges in the efficient extraction and analysis of unstructured information. This work investigates the use of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures combined with Large-Scale Language Models (LLMs) to automate the analysis of documents in PDF format. The proposal integrates vector search techniques by embeddings, semantic data extraction and generation of contextualized natural language responses. To validate the approach, we conducted experiments with drug package inserts extracted from official public sources. The semantic queries applied were evaluated by metrics such as accuracy, completeness, response speed and consistency. The results indicate that the combination of RAG with LLMs offers significant gains in intelligent information retrieval and interpretation of unstructured technical texts.

This paper presents a comparison of the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the task of multi-classifying images containing lesions of psoriasis and diseases similar to it. Models pre-trained on ImageNet were adapted to a specific data set. Both achieved high predictive metrics, but the ViTs stood out for their superior performance with smaller models. Dual Attention Vision Transformer-Base (DaViT-B) obtained the best results, with an f1-score of 96.4%, and is recommended as the most efficient architecture for automated psoriasis detection. This article reinforces the potential of ViTs for medical image classification tasks.