MIT researchers have developed a technique that could revolutionize the animation industry by giving artists more flexibility in how they animate characters. Instead of sticking to a single conventional measurements or mathematical functions called barycentric coordinates, the new method allows the artist to experiment with different movements and expressions, specific to each individual animation. This…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are two of the leading platforms in cloud computing. They offer various services tailored to diverse business needs and their evolution signifies continuous improvement and adaptation to changing technological demands.
AWS, a branch of Amazon that commenced operations in 2006, provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to different…
Artificial intelligence continues to transform scientific research and engineering design, presenting a faster and cost-effective alternative to physical experiments. Researchers from NVIDIA and Caltech are at the forefront, devising a new method that upends traditional numerical simulations using neural operators, providing enhanced efficiency in modeling complex systems. This innovative approach aids in addressing some of…
In the field of computer vision, developing adaptable models that require minimal human intervention is generating new opportunities for research and use. A key area of focus is using machine learning to enhance the ability of models to switch between tasks efficiently, thereby increasing their flexibility and applicability in various situations.
Usually, computer vision systems require…
Elon Musk's research lab, x.AI, made an advancement in the AI field with the introduction of the Grok-1.5 Vision (Grok-1.5V) model, which aims to reshape the future of AI. Grok-1.5V, a multimodal model, is known to amalgamate linguistic and visual understanding and may surpass current models such as GPT-4, which can potentially amplify AI capabilities.…
Over two thousand years ago, Greek mathematician Euclid revolutionized the world with his groundbreaking work in geometry. Today, MIT Associate Professor Justin Solomon is using contemporary geometric techniques to solve intricate problems, which often don't appear to be related to shapes, albeit heavily correlate with data arrangement in a high-dimensional space.
Solomon, who is also a…
Photolithography is a manufacturing process that uses light to precisely etch features onto surfaces, such as producing computer chips and optical devices. However, small imprecisions in the process can sometimes result in devices not being produced to specifications. To close this gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong are employing machine…
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that modern computational models based on machine learning and structured similarly to the human auditory system could assist researchers in developing better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. The largest study of its kind on deep neural networks trained for auditory tasks…
An MIT research team has developed an approach that quickly calculates the structure of transition states fundamental in chemical reactions - the fleeting and typically unobservable point that determines whether a reaction proceeds. This new machine learning-based model could assist in developing new reactions and catalysts for creating materials like fuels or drugs, and might…
A new technique developed by researchers at MIT gives animators more control over their creations by generating mathematical functions that determine how 2D and 3D shapes can bend, stretch and move through space. These functions, called barycentric coordinates, provide enhanced flexibility as opposed to traditional methods that restrict artists to a single option for shape-motion…
Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) is a blossoming field of study that focuses on translating audio streams into clear and concise text. AAC systems are created with the aid of substantial and accurately annotated audio-text data. However, the traditional method of manually aligning audio segments with text annotations is not only laborious and costly but also…
Researchers from Mila, McGill University, ServiceNow Research, and Facebook CIFAR AI Chair have developed a method called LLM2Vec to transform pre-trained decoder-only Large Language Models (LLMs) into text encoders. Modern NLP tasks highly depend on text embedding models that translate text's semantic meaning into vector representations. Historically, pre-trained bidirectional encoding models such as BERT and…