LG demonstrates AI leadership at top machine learning conference

Lee Moon-tae, center, a leader of LG AI Research’s machine learning lab, introduces the firm's AI platform EXAONE Universe to visitors at NeurIPS, a machine learning conference held in New Orleans, Dec. 10. Courtesy of LG Corp.

LG AI Research demonstrated its leadership in generative AI, releasing its research results on AI Agent and others at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the largest conference in the field of machine learning, the AI unit of LG Group said Wednesday.

NeurIPS is being held in New Orleans in the U.S. from Dec. 10 to 16. Launched in 2020, LG AI Research presented three papers at its first NeurIPS in 2021. It increased its research achievements by presenting 19 papers this year, following 12 last year.

It announced this time that its AI Agent is more advanced than existing generative AI. The company also unveiled EXAONE Universe, a generative AI service for AI researchers, at the conference.

"AI Agent is an AI that accurately perceives human commands and autonomously makes decisions like a personal assistant, which is a more proactive and advanced technology than existing generative AI," LG said.

LG AI Research also presented papers on LLM (Large Language Model) Actor, a technology that enables AI to make decisions to help users, and LLM Critic, which can predict which results should be prioritized.

LG said if this technology is applied, home appliances that help household activities — such as online shopping and housecleaning — will be better able to understand and execute human commands more accurately.

In addition to this, LG AI Research also revealed task-oriented dialogue (TOD) technology that enables AI to perform specific human commands.

Regarding EXAONE Universe, LG evaluated it as a platform to assist AI researchers which can be used across industries.

"EXAONE Universe is preparing to expand its service area to various fields including bio, chemistry, medical, pharmaceutical, patent, finance and law, based on EXAONE Universe for AI experts," said Lee Moon-tae, leader of LG AI Research’s machine learning lab.

LG AI Research is increasing its research achievements by presenting 78 papers at global AI conferences and applying for 30 patents this year alone. Its patented technologies include vision inspection to detect defective products, synthesis and property prediction of new pharmaceutical materials, bidirectional generation of text and image and development of next-generation batteries.