USC Information Sciences Institute Courses

Cognitive Electronic Warfare: Using AI to Solve EW Problems

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Explore AI applications in electronic warfare, including real-time learning and evaluation techniques for enhancing battlefield responsiveness and effectiveness against complex emitters.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Challenges and Opportunities for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems

Explore hybrid quantum-classical computing systems, optimization workflows, and performance characterization for scalable quantum acceleration in scientific applications.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Benchmarking MLLMs for Embodied Decision Making and Cognitive World Modeling

Discover systematic benchmarking methods for evaluating multimodal large language models in embodied AI environments and spatial cognition tasks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning Agent-Based Models from Data

Discover how to transform Agent-Based Models into probabilistic generative models to learn latent parameters and micro-level variables from data using maximum likelihood approaches.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scale Can't Overcome Pragmatics - The Impact of Reporting Bias on Vision-Language Reasoning

Uncover how reporting bias in training data limits Vision-Language Models' reasoning capabilities, despite web-scale datasets, and explore intentional curation methods as solutions.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Overexamined Algorithms and Overlooked Agency - Rethinking Online Harm

Explore how recommendation algorithms actually affect online content consumption through innovative "counterfactual bots" research, challenging assumptions about algorithmic radicalization.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deep Neural Networks for Modeling Fluid Flow in Underground Rocks

Discover how deep learning models like FNO and U-Net accelerate predictions of viscous fingering, CO₂ leakage, and ground deformation in subsurface fluid flow applications.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Visual Politics - Instagram and Gen AI in the 2024 United States Presidential Election

Explore how generative AI and Instagram shaped the 2024 US Presidential Election through computational analysis of 239,526 images and survey experiments on visual misinformation.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

VISCO - Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning

Discover VISCO, a benchmark analyzing how vision-language models critique and correct their visual reasoning, revealing key failure patterns and introducing the LookBack strategy for improvement.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

On Minds - Reflections of a Cognitive Architect

Explore decades of cognitive architecture research through reflections on minds, intelligence, and the technologies underlying artificial and natural cognitive systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Pluralistic Alignment - From Axiomatic Approach to Pairwise Calibration

Explore how AI systems can better align with diverse human values through novel social choice theory approaches and ensemble-based reward functions that preserve preference diversity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation

Discover algorithmic approaches for generating differentially private synthetic data with near-optimal utility guarantees, addressing high-dimensional challenges and streaming data applications.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Collapse of Dense Retrievers and Steering MoE LLMs

Explore critical vulnerabilities in dense retrievers and learn to control Mixture-of-Experts LLMs through selective expert activation for improved AI system robustness.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Large Language Models in the Age of Misinformation

Explore the dual nature of generative AI, examining its potential for good while addressing critical challenges in misinformation, disinformation campaigns, and digital safety.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Domain-Adaptive Programming - Expanding the Boundaries of What LLMs Can Solve

Explore how Domain-Adaptive Programming enhances LLMs by integrating formal structures for robust, verifiable solutions in specialized domains like vision and robotics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video