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Foundation Models (FMs) display exceptional performance in tasks such as natural language processing and are being applied across a growing range of disciplines. Although typically trained on large public datasets, FMs are often fine-tuned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Marcin Chrapek , Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner , Marcin Spoczynski , Scott Constable , Mona Vij , Torsten Hoefler

Foundation models are at the forefront of AI research, appealing for their ability to learn from vast datasets and cater to diverse tasks. Yet, their significant computational demands raise issues of environmental impact and the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Leyang Xue , Meghana Madhyastha , Randal Burns , Myungjin Lee , Mahesh K. Marina

The increasing availability of Machine Learning (ML) models, particularly foundation models, enables their use across a range of downstream applications, from scenarios with missing data to safety-critical contexts. This, in principle, may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zohaib Arshid , Daniele Bifolco , Fiorella Zampetti , Massimiliano Di Penta

Artificial intelligence is humanity's most promising technology because of the remarkable capabilities offered by foundation models. Yet, the same technology brings confusion and consternation: foundation models are poorly understood and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Rishi Bommasani

There is a growing concern that learned conditional generative models may output samples that are substantially similar to some copyrighted data $C$ that was in their training set. We give a formal definition of $\textit{near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Nikhil Vyas , Sham Kakade , Boaz Barak

Designing sustainable systems involves complex interactions between environmental resources, social impacts, and economic issues. In a constrained world, the challenge is to achieve a balanced design across those dimensions while avoiding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Christophe Ponsard , Bérengère Nihoul , Mounir Touzani

Conceptual modeling is a strongly interdisciplinary field of research. Although numerous proposals for axiomatic foundations of the main ideas of the field exist, there is still a lack of understanding main concepts such as system, process,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Peter Fettke , Wolfgang Reisig

Parallel to rapid advancements in foundation model research, the past few years have witnessed a surge in music AI applications. As AI-generated and AI-augmented music become increasingly mainstream, many researchers in the music AI…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Megan Wei , Mateusz Modrzejewski , Aswin Sivaraman , Dorien Herremans

If our models are used in new or unexpected cases, do we know if they will make fair predictions? Previously, researchers developed ways to debias a model for a single problem domain. However, this is often not how models are trained and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Candice Schumann , Xuezhi Wang , Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Hai Qian , Ed H. Chi

The potential lack of fairness in the outputs of machine learning algorithms has recently gained attention both within the research community as well as in society more broadly. Surprisingly, there is no prior work developing tree-induction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-25 Edward Raff , Jared Sylvester , Steven Mills

Advanced AI models hold the promise of tremendous benefits for humanity, but society needs to proactively manage the accompanying risks. In this paper, we focus on what we term "frontier AI" models: highly capable foundation models that…

Foundation models (FMs) for computer vision learn rich and robust representations, enabling their adaptation to task/domain-specific deployments with little to no fine-tuning. However, we posit that the very same strength can make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ankita Raj , Deepankar Varma , Chetan Arora

Exploring the data sources used to train Large Language Models (LLMs) is a crucial direction in investigating potential copyright infringement by these models. While this approach can identify the possible use of copyrighted materials in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Weijie Zhao , Huajie Shao , Zhaozhuo Xu , Suzhen Duan , Denghui Zhang

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly deployed to make critical decisions in socioeconomic applications such as finance, criminal justice, and autonomous driving. However, due to their data-driven and pattern-seeking nature, ML…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Verya Monjezi , Ashish Kumar , Ashutosh Trivedi , Gang Tan , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

The unauthorised use of data in the training of generative AI models presents significant legal challenges, particularly under intellectual property (IP) and privacy laws. These frameworks frequently grapple with the intricate relationship…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yangzi Li , Jyh-An Lee

Generative models have achieved impressive results in text to image tasks, significantly advancing visual content creation. However, this progress comes at a cost, as such models rely heavily on large-scale training data and may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhipeng Yin , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Zhen Liu , Jun Liu , Wenbin Zhang

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems are trained on large data corpora to generate new pieces of text, images, videos, and other media. There is growing concern that such systems may infringe on the copyright interests of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiachen T. Wang , Zhun Deng , Hiroaki Chiba-Okabe , Boaz Barak , Weijie J. Su

Modeling environmental ecosystems is essential for effective resource management, sustainable development, and understanding complex ecological processes. However, traditional methods frequently struggle with the inherent complexity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Runlong Yu , Shengyu Chen , Yiqun Xie , Xiaowei Jia

Deploying foundation models in embodied edge systems is fundamentally a systems problem, not just a problem of model compression. Real-time control must operate within strict size, weight, and power constraints, where memory traffic,…

Machine learning (ML) systems are utilized in critical sectors, such as healthcare, law enforcement, and finance. However, these systems are often trained on historical data that contains demographic biases, leading to ML decisions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jake Robertson , Noah Hollmann , Samuel Müller , Noor Awad , Frank Hutter