Samsung Electronics Advanced Institute of Technology Montreal AI Lab Expansion and Relocation
Mila Research Institute, a world-class deep learning research institute
Deep learning algorithms focus on on-device AI research.

Samsung Electronics will expand and relocate its 'Montreal AI Lab' to the Mila Research Institute building in Montreal, Canada, on the 1st (local time) to strengthen its research in the field of future AI.

Mila (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) is a world-class deep learning research institute led by Professor Yoshua Bengio, one of the world's top three experts in the field of deep learning, and a collaboration between researchers from the University of Montreal, McGill University, and AI developers from global companies. Samsung Electronics has become the first Korean company to move into the Mila Research Institute building.

With this expansion, Samsung Electronics has hired Professor Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Montreal) from the Mila Institute and appointed him as head of the Montreal AI Lab.

Samsung Electronics plans to focus its research on innovative technologies, including new deep learning algorithms and on-device AI based on unsupervised learning and generative adversarial networks (GANs), at its Montreal AI Lab.

Unsupervised learning is an algorithm that learns how data is structured, and it refers to learning with data for which the correct answer is unknown. It is different from supervised learning, which learns when explicit answers are given.

GANs are a type of deep learning algorithm that sets the learning subject as a generator and a discriminator in an opposing relationship, and generates and learns data through competition.

Samsung Electronics also plans to continue dispatching R&D personnel to Montreal and utilize the Montreal AI Lab as a base for training advanced AI research experts.

Since 2014, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has been developing core AI algorithms in collaboration with Professor Yoshua Bengio, a first in the industry, and has also published joint papers on voice recognition every year since 2017.

Professor Yoshua Bengio said, “We expect that the Montreal AI Lab, which opened at the Mila Institute, will help each other overcome technological challenges in the field of AI.”

Meanwhile, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology is collaborating with world-renowned scholars such as Professor Yann LeCun (New York University) and Professor Richard Zemel (University of Toronto) in addition to Professor Yoshua Bengio to develop next-generation AI technology.

In March 2019, Professors Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun were awarded the Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computer science, in recognition of their research achievements in the field of deep learning.

“The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology plans to focus on AI research applied to system semiconductors,” said Hwang Sung-woo, vice president of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. “Through the Montreal AI Lab, we will strengthen fundamental innovation research that will be responsible for the next 10 years, such as AI theory and next-generation deep learning algorithms.”