MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

A method for designing neural networks optimally suited for certain tasks

With the right building blocks, machine-learning models can more accurately perform tasks like fraud detection or spam filtering.

Learning to grow machine-learning models

New LiGO technique accelerates training of large machine-learning models, reducing the monetary and environmental cost of developing AI applications.

New method accelerates data retrieval in huge databases

Researchers used machine learning to build faster and more efficient hash functions, which are a key component of databases.

MIT professor to Congress: “We are at an inflection point” with AI

Aleksander Mądry urges lawmakers to ask rigorous questions about how AI tools are being used by corporations.

Matthew Kearney: Bringing AI and philosophy into dialogue

The computer science and philosophy double-major aims to advance the field of AI ethics.

Creating a versatile vaccine to take on Covid-19 in its many guises

Aided by machine learning, scientists are working to develop a vaccine that would be effective against all SARS-CoV-2 strains.

Large language models are biased. Can logic help save them?

MIT researchers trained logic-aware language models to reduce harmful stereotypes like gender and racial biases.

MIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects

The program leverages MIT’s research expertise and Takeda’s industrial know-how for research in artificial intelligence and medicine.

Efficient technique improves machine-learning models’ reliability

The method enables a model to determine its confidence in a prediction, while using no additional data and far fewer computing resources than other methods.

Solving a machine-learning mystery

A new study shows how large language models like GPT-3 can learn a new task from just a few examples, without the need for any new training data.