In 2023, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had an eventful year, making remarkable advances in diverse areas from artificial intelligence to healthcare, climate change, and astrophysics. This included cutting-edge research such as inventing tools for earlier cancer detection and exploring the science behind spreading kindness.
One of the highlights was Professor Moungi Bawendi winning the…
A new study by neuroscientists at MIT has uncovered what kind of sentences are most likely to stimulate the brain's main language processing centers. Utilizing an artificial language network, the researchers discovered that sentences with unusual grammar or unexpected meanings produce stronger responses in these areas; while straightforward sentences or nonsensical word sequences hardly engage…
MIT neuroscientists, using an artificial language network, have learned that more complex sentences, due to either odd grammar or unexpected meanings, trigger stronger responses in the brain's key language processing centers. On the other hand, plain sentences barely stimulate these regions, and nonsense word sequences have little effect on them.
Evelina Fedorenko, an Associate Professor…
Generative models, a class of probabilistic machine learning, have seen extensive use in various fields, such as the visual and performing arts, medicine, and physics. These models are proficient in creating probability distributions that accurately describe datasets, making them ideal for generating synthetic datasets for training data and discovering latent structures and patterns in an…
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) are effective across various domains and tasks, but scaling up these models comes with significant computational costs and inference speed limitations. Sparse Mixtures of Experts (SMoE) can help to overcome these challenges by enabling model scalability while reducing computational costs. However, SMoE struggles with low expert…
Large Language Models (LLMs), while transformative for many AI applications, necessitate high computational power, especially during inference phases. This poses significant operational costs and efficiency challenges as the models become bigger and more intricate. Particularly, the computational expenses incurred when running these models at the inference stage can be intensive due to their dense activation…
Pegasus-1 is a state-of-the-art multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Twelve Labs and designed to interact with and comprehend video content through natural language. The model is intended to overcome the complexities of video data, including the consideration of multiple modalities in one format and the understanding of the sequence and timeline of visual…
Large Language Models (LLMs) with video content is a challenging area of ongoing study, with a notable advancement in this field being Pegasus-1. This innovative multimodal model is designed to comprehend, synthesize, and interact with video data using natural language.
MarkTech Post explains that the purpose of Pegasus-1's creation was to manage the inherent complexity of…
Researchers from MIT have developed a technique that provides animation artists greater flexibility and control over their characters. Their approach generates mathematical functions known as barycentric coordinates which define how 2D and 3D shapes can bend, stretch, and move. This change allows artists to choose functions that best suit their vision for their characters, offering…