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August 17, 2024

Brice Huang receives Machtey Award for Best Student Paper at FOCS 2024

LIDS PhD candidate Brice Huang has received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper at FOCS 2024 for his paper, “Capacity threshold for the Ising perceptron.” The award is given annually at the IEEE Symp

August 14, 2024

MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems

The approach can detect anomalies in data recorded over time, without the need for any training. Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

July 24, 2024

Study: When allocating scarce resources with AI, randomization can improve fairness

Introducing structured randomization into decisions based on machine-learning model predictions can address inherent uncertainties while maintaining efficiency.

July 23, 2024

Large language models don’t behave like people, even though we may expect them to

A new study shows someone’s beliefs about an LLM play a significant role in the model’s performance and are important for how it is deployed.

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July 22, 2024

AI model identifies certain breast tumor stages likely to progress to invasive cancer

The model could help clinicians assess breast cancer stage and ultimately help in reducing overtreatment.

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July 16, 2024

How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed

A new technique enables users to compare several large models and choose the one that works best for their task.

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