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The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s InnoHK Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) and Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB) signed a contract to launch a bilateral research project. Supported by a research grant from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, this project seeks to enhance the safety and trustworthiness of AI architectures to cope with real-world applications.

Professor Sham Mai-har, CPII Board Chairperson, described the signing as a momentous occasion for a landmark bilateral project that serves as a significant bridge between the innovation hubs of Hungary and Hong Kong. She expressed confidence that this partnership will yield transformative insights and innovations benefiting both local communities and the broader global ecosystem. As the project officially commences, Professor Sham added, both institutions are embarking on a collaborative journey to define a new paradigm in AI transformation.

Professor Helen Meng Mei-ling, Director of CPII, highlighted that while AI has made significant strides, its lack of interpretability and predictability often limits its trustworthiness in critical fields. She explained that this collaboration aims to address these challenges directly by using linguistics-based studies to validate a novel machine learning algorithm. The project seeks to create AI architectures that are more precise, explainable and provable, setting new global standards for the safe and reliable use of AI in practical applications.

Professor Péter Baranyi, Head of the Cognitive Info-communications Research Center at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, CUB, said that it was a great honour to participate in the ceremony, which celebrated a collaboration that has flourished between key members of the two institutions for 30 years, both as colleagues and as friends. He noted that by introducing this new AI paradigm, the teams are moving beyond simple data approximation to deep understanding of how AI represents information. He further emphasised that this collaboration is critical to ensuring that future AI systems are not just good learners but are also provably stable, transparent and trustworthy.

About CUB

Corvinus University of Budapest is Hungary’s premier institution for Business, Economics and Social Sciences. It is the only university in the country to hold accreditation from both AACSB and AMBA, the two leading global business school certifying bodies, ranking its programmes among the top 2% worldwide. With a 120-year legacy, it is a key European hub for academic and research excellence. Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies was established in 2018 and has become an internationally recognised research hub of Central Europe, hosting more than 100 international visiting scholars from prestigious universities.

About CPII

The InnoHK Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) was established by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020 under the InnoHK initiative from the Innovation and Technology Commission of the HKSAR Government. Its research covers computer vision, multilingual speech and language technologies, natural language processing and AI-enabled design automation. Through pioneering research and applications in its key strategic areas, CPII is dedicated to addressing global challenges, resulting in social benefits in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and beyond.

For more information about CPII, please visit www.cpii.hk.
Email: contact@cpii.hk
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