Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence

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We seek to understand the basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems.

Deeper Learning: A research blog

Check out our new blog, Deeper Learning. In our newest post, A next generation architecture for elastic and conditional computation by Aditya Kusupati, Sneha Kudugunta, Devvrit, and Tim Dettmers, the authors introduce an algorithmic method to elastically deploy large models, the MatFormer.

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Announcing new post-baccalaureate program in partnership with Harvard Griffin GSAS Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB)

Dr. Mahmood Shad appointed as Director of Engineering at Kempner Institute

Kempner Institute announces scientific advisory board of visionary leaders in the field of intelligence research

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Kempner Institute hosts seminar series focused on the basis of intelligence

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Kempner Institute adds ~400 H100 GPUs to its computing cluster to support intelligence research

Kempner associate faculty member Cengiz Pehlevan wins prestigious NSF career award

Using applied mathematics, Dr. Pehlevan develops testable hypotheses about how neural networks function, and then applies those frameworks to better understand brain data.

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Using AI to advance scientific discovery

In two Nature publications, the Kempner’s Marinka Zitnik offers new frameworks for using AI to advance scientific discovery.

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