Five Strategic Research Areas
AI for Science & Health
HKU IDS leverages AI for science and health, using data to accelerate medical breakthroughs, personalize treatments, and improve public health. The institute develops AI tools for predicting therapy responses, optimizing drugs, modeling disease spread, and addressing healthcare disparities. It explores AI’s role in mimicking human understanding, interpreting visual data, and decoding brain processes.
Future priorities include multimodal, trustworthy AI, and complex systems modeling to enhance diagnostics and policy-making. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, IDS aims to transform AI into a vital partner in scientific discovery and health advancement.
Publications & Projects
- Jingfeng Wu*, Difan Zou*, Vladimir Braverman, Quanquan Gu, Sham M. Kakade, Last Iterate Risk Bounds of SGD with Decaying Stepsize for Overparameterized Linear Regression. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning. (2022) [Long Presentation]
Difan Zou*, Jingfeng Wu*, Vladimir Braverman, Quanquan Gu, Dean P. Foster, Sham M. Kakade. The Benefit of Implicit Regularization from SGD in Least Square Problems. Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. (2021) - Difan Zou*, Jingfeng Wu*, Vladimir Braverman, Quanquan Gu, Sham M. Kakade. Benign Overfitting of Constant-Stepsize SGD for Linear Regression. Annual Conference on Learning Theory. (2021)
- Difan Zou, Pan Xu, Quanquan Gu. Faster Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics for Non-Log-Concave Sampling. International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (2021)
- Difan Zou, Quanquan Gu. On the Convergence of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Stochastic Gradients. International Conference on Machine Learning. (2021)
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