Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Funds the mathematics that explains why AI works and where it fails — $500,000 to $1.5 million for cross-disciplinary teams.
Machine learning has produced results across protein folding, language, drug synthesis, recommendation and materials discovery, and nobody can fully explain why it works or where it stops working. NSF's position in this notice is blunt: the foundational gaps are real, they will limit progress, and more computing power and more experiments will probably not close them.
Four NSF directorates fund t…
Mathematical and theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence — what determines the capabilities and limitations of foundation models, generative models, deep learning, statistical learning and federated learning; mathematically grounded design and analysis principles; rigorous characterisation and validation of machine learning algorithms; and provably reliable general-purpose AI.
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