Adjunct professor Shuijan Yu and centre director Robert Jenssen.
Visual Intelligence was well represented at the conference, and presented some of the centre's latest research on representation learning by deep neural networks.
The International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR) is one of the top conferences within the field of machine learning and often dubbed "the premiere gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the many branches of artificial intelligence and deep learning". This year's conference took place in Vienna, Austria from May 7th to 11th, with around 6000 participants from 79 different countries present.
Visual Intelligence was well represented at the conference, and presented some of the centre's latest research on representation learning by deep neural networks.
For instance, adjunct professor Shujian Yu presented the paper "Cauchy-Schwarz Information Bottleneck for Regression". The paper presents a new way to regularize neural networkrs when used for regression (function estimation). This is based on a new sample estimator for the so-called Cauchy-Schwarz divergence. The paper is a collaboration between researchers at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Florida.
Centre director Robert Jenssen presented the paper "MAP IT to Visualize Representations". In this work, Jenssen developed a new way to visualize high-dimensional data by aligning distributions in a novel manner. This is highly relevant for deep learning to gain insight from the learned representations of the neural networks.
Thea Brüsch was a visiting PhD student at the Visual Intelligence centre from January to July 2024. She is a PhD student at the Technical Universityof Denmark. She presented the paper “On convex decision regions in deep network representations” at the ICLR workshop on Representational Alignment.
There were close to 7300 papers submitted to the conference, with about 30% of them being accepted.
Elisabeth Wetzer forsker på hvordan maskiner kan lære å analysere medisinske bilder – og samtidig forstå hva legene faktisk ser etter (Norwegian news article on dagsavisen.no)
Visual Intelligence researchers organized a preparatory course for UiT AI students who are attending this year's Norwegian AI Championship.
We happily welcome Veronica Lachi and Qing Liu as new Associate Professors at SFI Visual Intelligence.
Artur Radzivil is a PhD Research Fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. He visited Visual Intelligence in Oslo from September to November 2025.
Congratulations to Marius Aasan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on February 10th.
We had the pleasure of talking to UiT students about the career opportunities at SFI Visual Intelligence and UiT at TEKdagen 2026.
Centre Director Robert Jenssen met with Sigrun Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, alongside UiT and Aker Nscale representatives to give an update on Aker Nscale's AI Giga Factory in Narvik, Norway.
Zheming Xu is a PhD Research Fellow at Beijing Jiaotong University. She visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from September 2025 to January 2026.
Få kvinner søker seg til fag innenfor kunstig intelligens. Det kan skape blindsoner, mener ekspert (Norwegian news story in NRK.no).
Visual Intelligence was represented by Centre Director Robert Jenssen, Associate Professor Kristoffer Wickstrøm, and VI Alumna Sara Björk at the Arctic Frontiers side session "How can AI and satellite collaboration strengthen Arctic resilience?".
Petter Tømmeraas, Director of Data Center Services at Aker Nscale, visited SFI Visual Intelligence to learn more about our research projects and AI startups established by former UiT students.
We happily welcome Keyne Oei and Boye Sjo as new PhD Research Fellows at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø and Oslo respectively.
Congratulations to Børge Solli Andreassen, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo on December 18th 2025.
Attracting 280 international AI researchers, the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) 2026 was successfully organized from January 5th to 9th 2026 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence hosted a special NLDL 2026 mentoring session for young researchers with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar – a globally renowned AI researcher and expert
Centre Director and NLDL General Chair Robert Jenssen was interviewed by NRK about this year's Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference.
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270 KI-eksperter fra nært og fjernt møtes ved UiT for å dele siste forskningsnytt. Et av formålene er å styrke internasjonale bånd og samarbeid på tvers av det globale KI-miljøet (Norwegian news article on uit.no)
Med ferske millioner på konto skal Senter for pasientnær kunstig intelligens (SPKI) ved UNN bidra i et stort nasjonalt KI-prosjekt de neste fire årene (News article on unn.no)
We happily welcome Zijun Sun as a new Doctoral Research Fellow at SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø, Norway.
The Visual Intelligence Management Team, Robert Jenssen, Line Eikvil, Anne Solberg, and Inger Solheim, wishes everyone a happy holiday season and new year!