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Jan 29, 2025
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January 29, 2025
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Spandan Madan
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Serena Bono
Authors Serena Bono (MIT Media Lab) and Spandan Madan (Harvard University) describe their latest paper and findings on training reinforcement learning models and their testing abilities.
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Jan 10, 2025
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January 10, 2025
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Samuel Gershman, Josh McDermott, Carlos Ponce, Maria Fernanda De La Torre, Leyla Isik, Boris Katz, James DiCarlo, Kohitij Kar, Gabriel Kreiman, Winrich Freiwald, Mengmi Zhang, Will Xiao, Morgan Talbot, Ed Boyden, Akshay Rangamani
Over the last 11+ years, the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines has become a place of gathering brilliant minds to discuss and solve the challenges and questions of intelligence, organic and artificial. Hear from a few of our members, and others...
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Dec 11, 2024
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December 11, 2024
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CBMM Speaker(s):
Spandan Madan
Authors: Spandan Madan, Will Xiao, Mingran Cao, Hanspeter Pfister, Margaret Livingstone, Gabriel Kreiman Link to Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16935 Abstract: We characterized the generalization capabilities of DNN-based encoding models when...
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Nov 12, 2024
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November 19, 2024
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Tomaso Poggio, Ila Fiete, Haim Sompolinsky
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Philip Isola, MIT, Eran Malach, Harvard
In a society that is confronting the new age of AI in which LLMs begin to display aspects of human intelligence, understanding the fundamental theory of deep learning and applying it to real systems is a compelling and urgent need. This panel will...
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Nov 13, 2024
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November 19, 2024
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Rachel Denison, Boston University
Attention is a cognitive process that allows us to prioritize the sensory information that is most relevant for our behavioral goals. In a successful class of computational models of attention, attention biases neural responses through its...
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Oct 9, 2024
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October 28, 2024
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Djuna von Maydell, MIT
Understanding how training data influences model predictions ("data attribution") is an active area of machine learning research. In this tutorial, we will introduce a data attribution method (datamodels: https://gradientscience.org/datamodels-1/)...
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Oct 1, 2024
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October 21, 2024
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Noah Goodman
Noah Goodman, Stanford University
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Oct 10, 2024
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October 10, 2024
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Sep 10, 2024
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September 26, 2024
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Michael Littman, Brown University
Abstract: It is immensely empowering to delegate information processing work to machines and have them carry out difficult tasks on our behalf. But programming computers is hard. The traditional approach to this problem is to try to fix people: They...
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Aug 13, 2024
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September 23, 2024
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Vikash Mansinghka, MIT

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