Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.
MIT News From ACM News | April 26, 2022
Scientists have developed the Shared Interest method for rapidly analyzing a machine learning model's behavior by evaluating its individual explanations.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2022
Researchers have created an architecture for a robotic manipulation system that could teach robots to handle pizza dough.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2022
To help combat discrimination in mortgage lending, a new process can remove bias from the data used to train machine learning models.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2022
A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a framework to make quantum circuits more resilient to noise.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2022
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2022
A new technique to prevent memory timing side-channel attacks by malware exploits memory hardware common to multiple programs running on the same computer.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2022
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed an integrated circuit chip that can thwart power side-channel attacks using less energy than...MIT News From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2022
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
MIT News From ACM News | January 25, 2022
A new machine learning approach could speed up vehicle routing algorithms, which tend to slow down when applied to large urban datasets.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2021
Researchers come up with a machine learning method to reduce the amount of memory required for Internet of Things devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2021
The 3D Scene Perception via Probabilistic Programming system helps machines perceive the world in a more human-like manner.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2021
The deep learning GeoMol model can rapidly predict the three-dimensional shapes of drug-like molecules, which could expedite drug discovery.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2021
Architects and engineers could design truss structures minimizing embodied carbon by using a new set of computational tools.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2021
An international research team developed a visual analytics tool to address challenges faced by child welfare specialists using machine learning models to screen...MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2021
Research by neuroscientists suggests the latest predictive language models' underlying mechanism functions similarly to the human brain's language-processing centers...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2021
A machine learning model can train itself to smell by building an artificial neural network that mimics the brain's odor-processing olfactory circuits.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 25, 2021