U.S. DOD DARPA - Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ)
Event details
| Date | 25.06.2024 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the technical areas of assessing and understanding the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable mathematical guarantees on performance of generative AI. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ) will develop technology to assess and understand the capabilities of AI to enable guaranteed performance. The program will test the hypothesis that mathematical methods, combined with advances in measurement and modelling, will allow guaranteed quantification of AI capabilities. Specifically, the program will address three interrelated capability levels:
- specific problem level,
- classes of problem level, and
- natural class level, aiming to address the quantification and assessment challenges at each level.
Two technical areas (TA) of Interest:
- The goal of TA1 is to provide rigorous foundations for understanding and guaranteeing capabilities across levels; teams proposing for TA1 are expected to be led by individuals with deep technical expertise, such as pure or applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, or statistics, or other relevant expertise and demonstrate relevance to AI.
- The goal of TA2 is to develop methods for evaluating AI models, integrating and evaluating TA1 results at scale using appropriate research datasets; teams proposing for TA2 are expected to comprise computational, cognitive, and/or behavioral scientists with expertise in AI evaluation.
Amount/duration:
Projects are expected to have a duration of 36 months, divided into two phases of 18 months each. The Funding Opportunity announcement does not mention a specific maximum budget, the cost realism is one of the evaluation criteria.
Deadline:
- Proposers Day: June 14, 2024
- [REQUIRED] Proposal Abstract: June 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM.
- Full proposal: August 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM
EPFL researchers are encouraged to participate. For this call, the U.S. government expects fundamental research, encouraging opensource regimes as well as a collaborative and transparent environment.
The ReO is available to verify that both the conditions of the funder and interests of EPFL are respected.
How to Apply:
Proposers are required to submit a two-page abstract. Proposers will receive a written response to their abstract either encouraging or discouraging a full proposal submission. This written response will include a rationale for the decision.
Proposers may only submit a full proposal if their abstract received an encourage response.
- Funder Website: https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/offices/i2o?ppl=collapse
- Link to call: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354691
- Application portal link: Abstracts and proposals must be received via DARPA's BAA Website (https://baa.darpa.mil)
- Funder contact details: The BAA Coordinator for this effort may be reached at: AIQ@darpa.mil
- For any EPFL related questions contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free