Six research directions. One mission.
YARA Research investigates AI through six interlocking programmes, each exploring a distinct dimension of intelligent systems, from reasoning and architecture to safety and governance.
Intelligence & Reasoning
Investigating the nature, architectures and mechanisms of machine intelligence, from reasoning and inference to model architecture and knowledge representation.
Agentic & Agentless Systems
Investigating autonomous and non-autonomous approaches to intelligent task execution, comparing agent architectures, agentless alternatives, and hybrid strategies.
AI Engineering & Software Systems
Researching how AI transforms software engineering and development infrastructure, from coding agents to AI-native software development lifecycles.
Local AI & Efficient Intelligence
Making AI more efficient, accessible and independent of centralised infrastructure, through local inference, model optimisation and resource-aware computing.
Knowledge, Context & Memory
Understanding how intelligent systems acquire, retain, retrieve and use information, from context engineering to persistent knowledge architectures.
AI Safety, Evaluation & Governance
Ensuring intelligent systems are reliable, secure, measurable and accountable, through rigorous evaluation, guardrails and responsible AI practices.