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New iCoSys research on energy-efficient Document AI How much additional energy is required to improve the accuracy of Document AI systems – and at what point does the extra computational effort stop being worthwhile? At ACM DocEng 2026, iCoSys researchers Adam Grossenbacher, Loïc Guibert, Beat Wolf and Jean Hennebert presented their paper, “More Power, More […]
AI for good – Biodiversity PMC, the One Health Library powered with AI The iCoSys team (HEIA-FR), together with the Swiss AI Center for SMEs, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, took part in the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, organised by the International Telecommunication […]
As AI workloads continue to grow, their energy footprint has become a critical concern for both researchers and industry professionals. From document engineering to generative tasks, AI models are the backbone of modern processing pipelines, raising the important question of the associated energy costs. On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, iCoSys is proud to present a […]
The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng’26) will take place from August 25 to 28 in Fribourg. As the leading global forum for experts shaping the future of document processing and AI, the symposium brings together researchers and industry professionals at the intersection of technology and content management. During the symposium, iCoSys will host the […]
iCoSys is proud to announce the acceptance of the research paper “The Price of Reasoning: Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation” at the WoLDE 2026 workshop, part of ACM DocEng’26.Led by Aixiu An (iCoSys) and Michael Jungo (University of Fribourg), the research investigates the balance between performance and deployment costs when using […]
MSE Summer School 2026: AI & Data Services The iCoSys team, alongside the Swiss AI Center for SMEs and the HES-SO Master of Science in Engineering, is organizing the MSE Summer School 2026 at the HES-SO Master in Lausanne from 31 August to 4 September 2026. The school brings together 27 Master students from across […]