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.
We happily welcome Sigurd Almli Hanssen and Adrian Duric as new PhD Candidates at SFI Visual Intelligence's hubs in Tromsø and Oslo respectively.
AI expert Eirik Agnalt Østmo explains that the law is intended to make AI technology safe for everyone (Popular science article on sciencenorway.no)
Aitor Sánchez is a PhD candidate at the Intelligent Systems Group of the University of the Basque Country in Spain. He visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from March to June 2025.
We happily welcome Nicolo Grometto as a new PhD Candidate at SFI Visual Intelligence in Bodø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence hosted a hybrid meeting with researchers from the Alan Turing Institute at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Visual Intelligence researchers participated in this year's Forskningsdagene: an annual national research festival which aims to stimulate the general public's interest and curiosity in research.
Norge arbeider med å få på plass en egen lov for kunstig intelligens. Loven skal passe på at vi bruker KI på en trygg måte (Norwegian news article at uit.no).
85 researchers from the Visual Intelligence consortium convened for the Visual Intelligence Days: the annual workshop where researchers, user partners and invited guests convene to share knowledge and updates on the latest research and innovations within the centre.
Registration for the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference 2026 is officially open. Early bird fees are available before December 1st 2025.
Det skal eksperter på kunstig intelligens, cybersikkerhet og juss fra UiT Norges arktiske universitet diskutere på Verdensteatret Kino den 17. september. Arrangementet er gratis og åpen for alle (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
The presentations from the Visual Intelligence Workshop on Foundation Models are now available on the Visual Intelligence YouTube channel.
Congratulations to Nikita Shvetsov for successfully defending his PhD thesis and achieving the PhD degree in Science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 27th 2025.
Det sa digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung (Ap) da hun besøkte UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø for å lære mer om utdanning og toppforskning på kunstig intelligens ved universitetet (Norwegian news article at uit.no)
A new study shows how deep learning can achieve human-level performance in estimating uncertainty when classifying foraminifera (News story at EurekAlert.org)
Congratulations to Iver Martinsen and Durgesh Kumar Singh, who successfully defended their PhD theses at UiT The Arctic University of Norway on August 20th and 21st respectively.
Visual Intelligence brought together academia, industry, the institute sector, the Research Council of Norway, and Norwegian politics to discuss why and how Norwegian academia and industry should collaborate more closely to develop innovative artificial intelligence.
João Campagnolo is a PhD Candidate in the Neuroscience Department of the University of Copenhagen (KU). He visited SFI Visual Intelligence in Tromsø from April to May 2025.
Students from EUGLOH partner institutions can now apply for an exclusive mobility scholarship worth 2 900 EUR for the NLDL 2026 Winter School. Application deadline October 3rd 2025
More than 50 attendees from the Norwegian AI research community gathered in Tromsø, Norway for two days of insightful presentations, interactive technical sessions, and scientific and social interactions.
Last week, we wished Aasland—accompanied by Political Advisor Munir Jaber and Senior Adviser Finn-Hugo Markussen—welcome to the Norwegian Computing Center (NR). One of the visit's goals was to showcase ongoing Visual Intelligence projects at NR.