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May 8, 2025

Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds

The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.

May 5, 2025

Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain

New type of “state-space model” leverages principles of harmonic oscillators.

Thesis Defense: Elena Sergeeva, Building small domain-specific masked language models vs. large generative models for clinical decision support and their effects on users.

Doctoral Thesis Title: Building small domain-specific masked language models vs. large generative models for clinical decision support and their effects on users.Presenter: Elena SergeevaPresenter’s Affiliation CSAILThesis Supervisor(s): Peter

April 29, 2025

Merging design and computer science in creative ways

MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.

April 23, 2025

Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language

A new method from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab helps large language models to steer their own responses toward safer, more ethical, value-aligned outputs.

Thesis Defense: Hao He, Contactless Sleep and Physiological Monitoring Using Artificial Intelligence and Radio Waves

Doctoral Thesis Title:  Contactless Sleep and Physiological Monitoring Using Artificial Intelligence and Radio WavesPresenter: Hao HePresenter’s Affiliation (CSAIL, RLE, LIDS, MTL, etc.): CSAILThesis Supervisor(s): Prof. Dina Katabi Date: May 7, 2025Time: 2:30 pm –

Thesis defense: Pratyusha Sharma, Discovering and Engineering the Computation Underlying Large Intelligent Agents

Doctoral Thesis Title: Discovering and Engineering the Computation Underlying Large Intelligent AgentsPresenter: Pratyusha SharmaPresenter’s Affiliation (CSAIL, RLE, LIDS, MTL, etc.): CSAILThesis Supervisor(s): Prof. Antonio Torralba, Prof. Jacob Andreas Date:

March 18, 2025

Department of EECS announces 2025 promotions and appointments

All promotions and appointments will take effect July 1, 2025.

Special seminar: Optimizing Power Grids with AI: Ensuring Feasibility and Stability

Seminar title: Optimizing Power Grids with AI: Ensuring Feasibility and Stability Location: 32-155 Time: Monday, March 17 4-5pm Abstract: The electric power grid, one of our country’s most complex pieces of

February 20, 2025

Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way

A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.