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Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, were chosen by the Department of Physics as the first cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation Fellows. This year’s recipients are provided with a one-year stipend and a research fund to pursue their research interests; they will visit the Botton Foundation…
Diffusion models have been widely used with remarkable success in text-to-image generation in recent years, leading to significant improvements in image quality, inference performance, and the scope of our creative possibilities. However, effective generation management remains a challenge, especially under conditions that are hard to define in words. MediaPipe dispersion plugins, developed by Google researchers,…
In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission — to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme…
The performance of large language models (LLMs) has been impressive across many different natural language processing (NLP) applications. In recent studies, LLMs have been proposed as task-specific training data generators to reduce the necessity of task-specific data and annotations, especially for text classification. Though these efforts have demonstrated the usefulness of LLMs as data producers,…
How are waves of disruptive technologies, such as more advanced versions of artificial intelligence systems, changing the way we work, live, and play? Are there pathways that academics, practitioners, innovators, and entrepreneurs ought to be pursuing to ensure that the largest share of the benefits associated with new technologies uplift the most marginalized populations? What…
David H. Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, has been recognized as one of two 2023 NOMIS Distinguished Scientists for his significant contributions and ongoing research work to understand the effects of technological change and globalization on jobs and earnings prospects for workers. Anne Brunet of Stanford University is the other winner for this…
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz, with some predicting it will lead to an idyllic utopia and others warning it will bring the end of humanity. But speculation about where AI technology is going, while important, can also drown out important conversations about how we should be handling the…
By combining several activities into one instruction, instruction tuning enhances generalization to new tasks. Such capacity to respond to open-ended questions has contributed to the recent chatbot explosion since ChatGPT 2. Visual encoders like CLIP-ViT have recently been added to conversation agents as part of visual instruction-tuned models, allowing for human-agent interaction based on pictures….
With recent technological breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, Large Language Models, or LLMs in short, have become increasingly prevalent. Over the past few years, researchers have made rapid advancements in solving several complex language-related tasks by training these models on vast amounts of data in order to comprehend intricate language patterns, generate coherent responses, etc. One…
In a significant step towards enhancing accessibility and comprehension of complex charts and graphs, a team of researchers from MIT has created a groundbreaking dataset called VisText. The dataset aims to revolutionize automatic chart captioning systems by training machine-learning models to generate precise and semantically rich captions that accurately describe data trends and intricate patterns….
