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Artificial Intelligence

Allen School researchers are at the forefront of exciting developments in AI spanning machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics and more.

We cultivate a deeper understanding of the science and potential impact of rapidly evolving technologies, such as large language models and generative AI, while developing practical tools for their ethical and responsible application in a variety of domains — from biomedical research and disaster response, to autonomous vehicles and urban planning.


Groups & Labs

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SAMPL

SAMPL is an interdisciplinary machine learning research group exploring problems across the system stack, including deep learning frameworks, specialized hardware for training and inference, new intermediate representations and more.

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H2 Lab

The H2 Lab addresses foundational problems in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to develop general-purpose AI algorithms that represent, comprehend, and reason about diverse forms of data at large scale.


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Centers & Initiatives

The interdisciplinary DUB group at the University of Washington advances research, collaboration and teaching related to the interaction between design, people, and technology.

Change is a cross-campus collaboration that explores the challenges of developing technology in the context of positive social change. It seeks to make connections between researchers, outside organizations, and the public to inspire the development of new capabilities aligned with the interests of those most in need.

Highlights


Allen School News

In December, Feng was named among the 2026 class of NVIDIA Graduate Fellows in recognition of his work on model collaboration, where “multiple AI models, trained on different data, by different people, and thus possess diverse skills and strengths, collaborate, compose and complement each other.”

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The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) recognized Jamieson for his 2016 paper underpinning an approach to hyperparameter optimization that has been widely adopted within the machine learning community.

Allen School News

Multiple Allen School authors received Best Paper Awards or honorable mentions for their work on interactive systems that enable more flexible human-AI agent collaboration, an AI-based tool that helps screen-reader users make sense of geovisualizations, and more.