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IBM-MIT launch new AI challenge to push the limits of object recognition models

IBM-MIT collaboration announces a challenge for the computer vision community to develop robust models for object recognition, demonstrating accurate predictions on ObjectNet images.
CBMM presenting at NeurIPS 2020

The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines is well-represented at the thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).
‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures

An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology’s grandest challenges — determining a protein’s 3D shape from its amino-acid sequence.
CBMM Research of Deep Networks featured in PNAS Publication

Recent advances give theoretical insight into why deep learning networks are successful. CBMM Director Tomaso Poggio, postdoc Andrzej Banburski and graduate student Qianli Liao look into the "black box" of deep learning to provide insights.
Brains, Minds + Machines Summer Course | MBL Woods Hole, MA

An intensive three-week course which gives a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence.
CBMM Memo 102: Double descent in the condition number

Figure 1: Typical double descent of the condition number (y axis) of a random data matrixdistributed asN(0,1): the condition number is worse whenn=d, better ifn > d(on the rightofn=d) and also better ifn < d(on the left ofn=d).

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Stars, brains, and enzymes: a celebration of MIT science [MIT News]

January 12, 2021

First virtual MIT Better World gathering featured MIT researchers sharing some of the ways the Institute excels as a hub of science and innovation. Watch Video Nicole Estvanik Taylor | MIT Alumni...

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Karolina Marciniak: Intuitive Physics

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Associated Research Thrust(s):

Neural Circuits for Intelligence

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

114

T. Poggio, “From Associative Memories to Deep Networks”. 2021.

CBMM Memo No:

113

A. Banburski, Gandhi, A., Alford, S., Dandekar, S., Chin, P., and Poggio, T., “Dreaming with ARC”, Learning Meets Combinatorial Algorithms workshop a...

T. Poggio and Banburski, A., “An Overview of Some Issues in the Theory of Deep Networks”, IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering,...

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Join the Reach Out Science Communication Challenge!

Calling All NSF Science and Technology Center Students and Postdocs!
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