Over 2000 years ago, Greek mathematician Euclid drastically influenced how we perceive shapes. Adding a modern facet to these ancient teachings, Justin Solomon is leveraging modern geometric methods to confront complex issues often unrelated to shapes. As an Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of MIT’s…
Drawing influence from over 2,000 years ago, MIT Professor Justin Solomon is building upon the works of Greek mathematician Euclid - the father of geometry, using modern geometric techniques to tackle difficult problems, often not related to shapes. Solomon works in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as part of the Computer Science…
Photolithography, a process used to etch features onto surfaces like computer chips and optical lenses, often results in devices that underperform due to tiny variations during manufacturing. To address this, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have employed machine learning to create a digital simulator that replicates a specific photolithography manufacturing…
In the largest study of deep neural networks that can perform auditory tasks, MIT found that the models mimic human auditory representations when exposed to the same sounds. Neural networks are models that have multiple layers of information-processing units that can be trained to perform particular tasks using large amounts of data. These models are…
Scientists are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to predict and enhance the taste of beer, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The study, titled "Predicting and improving complex beer flavour through machine learning," details the usage of machine-learning models trained on data related to the chemical properties of beer, with the aim of…
Researchers from the Meaning Alignment Institute have proposed a new method for aligning artificial intelligence (AI) systems with human values, termed Moral Graph Elicitation (MGE). The team highlighted the increasing importance of ensuring that AI aligns with people's values as these systems become more embedded in everyday life, and warned against AI systems being blindly…
The Dynamic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach is designed to boost the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) through determining when and what external information to retrieve during text generation. However, the current methods to decide when to recover data often rely on static rules and tend to limit retrieval to recent sentences or tokens,…
Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed a system that educates a user on when to trust an AI assistant's recommendations. During the onboarding process, the user practices collaborating with the AI using training exercises and receives feedback on their and the AI's performance. This system led to a 5% improvement…
Last summer, MIT called upon the academic community to provide papers that suggest effective approaches and policy recommendations in the field of generative AI. Expectations were surpassed when 75 proposals were received. After reviewing these submissions, the institution funded 27 of the proposed projects.
During the fall, the response to a second call for proposals…
Santa Claus can deliver presents worldwide in one night, but for companies like FedEx, this task isn't so simple - and it is so complex, dedicated software is often used to solve it. Known as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solver, the software breaks down this vast optimization problem into smaller pieces and then employs…
A group of MIT researchers has developed a machine learning (ML) approach that could revolutionize the way we design catalysts for chemical reactions. The method simplifies the intricate process of designing new compounds or alloys, traditionally dependent on the intuition of experienced chemists, by using ML to provide more detailed information than conventional techniques can.
The…