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A pipeline technology for a new livestock industry: The PigLife Dataset
The PigLife data set, developed under AIFARMS, is a first-of-its-kind benchmark made to train computer vision (CV) systems on pig tracking, furnishing the agricultural industry with accessible and revolutionary optimization.

AIFARMS Associate Director Madhu Khanna Named 2025 AAAS Fellow
Madhu Khanna, Director of iSEE, has been named a 2025 AAAS Fellow for her contributions to social and economic sciences. Her work at AIFARMS advances understanding of how policy and economics shape adoption of sustainable, AI-driven agricultural technologies.

ChatGPT for farmers? Illinois research project centers around CropWizard
AIFARMS PI Vikram Adve sits down with Our Quad Cities to discuss CropWizard, the research project exploring generative AI for agricultural decision making and optimization.
CropGPT?: Farmers now have their own AI chatbot
KWQC interviews AIFARMS PI Vikram Adve about CropWizard and how farmers can ask the chatbot questions about pests, diseases, or crop management and receive research-based answers.

Building Trust in AI Agronomy Through Transparent Benchmarking
Led by the Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, AI AgriBench offers a trusted framework to evaluate AI-driven chatbots and crop advisory services, supporting confidence and transparency in digital tools used by farmers and agronomy professionals.
AIFARMS Benchmark Papers on MIRAGE and AgMMU Accepted to NeurIPS 2025
AIFARMS’ MIRAGE and AgMMU datasets, accepted to NeurIPS 2025, advance agricultural AI through real-world user expert data. AgMMU targets factual and visual understanding, while MIRAGE enables multimodal, expert-level reasoning, together setting new benchmarks for agricultural decision-making and evaluation.
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The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability (AIFARMS) Institute is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.