Do You Trust Me? A Framework For Making Networks of Robots and Vehicles Safer Paper describes how 'cy-trust' can enable resilient systems

Trust matters between agents. New work from #KempnerInstitute associate faculty member Stephanie Gil introduces "cy-trust," a quantitative measure of how trustworthy a robot or vehicle is in a networked system.

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#AI #robotics @ieeeorg.bsky.social

Aramont Fellowships give freedom to concentrate on high-risk, high-reward research — Harvard Gazette Renewed gift significantly expands the impact of early-career support.

Congratulations to #KempnerInstitute Investigator SueYeon Chung on receiving an Aramont Fellowship to advance research linking neural representations, #AIsafety & #AIalignment!

Read more: bit.ly/4rRHqtN

@sueyeonchung.bsky.social @harvardseas.bsky.social
#NeuroAI

Harvard Researchers Create Social Network for “AI Scientists” to Collaborate - Kempner Institute Science rarely advances exclusively through lone researchers. Progress often comes from discussion and collaboration — scientists sharing ideas, questioning one another, and refining their thinking to...

🤖🔬Researchers at the #KempnerInstitute and @harvardmed.bsky.social introduce ClawInstitute — a social network where #AI agents collaborate like scientists.

Read more: bit.ly/4c4Or5M

@marinkazitnik.bsky.social

New AI-based Framework Could Explain Why Evolution Gave So Many Species the Same Smell Circuit - Kempner Institute Why do the smell circuits of flies, mice, and humans look so remarkably alike? A new study from Harvard researchers offers a possible explanation: this shared design may be the […]

🧠👃A new study by #KempnerInstitute associate faculty member Venkatesh Murthy & collaborators shows that maximizing information recreates an olfactory design shared by multiple species.

Out now in @pnas.org: bit.ly/4uQ6Omw

@neurovenki.bsky.social @jzv.bsky.social #neuroscience

Energy-Based Fine-Tuning: Beyond Next-Token Prediction - Kempner Institute Language models trained with teacher forcing never learn to handle errors that compound during generation. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) fixes this by training on rollouts, but...

NEW from the #KempnerInstitute: researchers introduce Energy-Based Fine-Tuning (EBFT), a method that matches the long-range statistics of model generations to ground-truth sequences in high-dimensional feature spaces.

Read the #DeeperLearning blog post: bit.ly/4ry8FcM #AI

Announcing 2026 Kempner Institute Research Fellows - Kempner Institute Cambridge, MA – The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026 Kempner Institute Research Fellowships. The […]

📢✨We are thrilled to announce the 2026 recipients of #KempnerInstitute Research Fellowships: Jieneng Chen, Marco Fumero, Audrey Huang, Raja Marjieh, Yinuo Ren and Anne Wu! Learn more: bit.ly/3NfzB2Y

@jienengchen.bsky.social @marcofm.bsky.social

InputDSA: Demixing then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics in complex systems - Kempner Institute We explored how to measure the similarity between two complex systems when they are driven by external inputs, like biological neural circuits or reinforcement learning agents. Our novel method, calle...

NEW from the #KempnerInstitute: InputDSA, a tool to separate intrinsic dynamics from input-driven effects—enabling accurate, efficient comparisons of complex systems with external inputs.

Read the #DeeperLearning blog post by @annhuang42.bsky.social & @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bkrvy9

Kempner Institute Undergraduate Summer Internship Program in AI/ML Research & Engineering  - Kempner Institute The Undergraduate Summer Internship Program in AI/ML Research & Engineering at the Kempner Institute offers a structured opportunity for current undergraduates (interns) and recent graduates to furthe...

Applications for the 2026 #KempnerInstitute Undergraduate Summer #Internship Program in AI/ML Research & Engineering are now open! 👀

This 10-week program offers a structured opportunity to further your experience in AI/ML engineering.

Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4cxbS8K

Kempner Institute Announces 2026 Accelerator Awards Request for Proposals - Kempner Institute Cambridge, MA– The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2026 Kempner Institute Accelerator Awards request for proposa...

📢 Request for proposals: Applications for the #KempnerInstitute Accelerator Awards open to @harvard.edu faculty on April 14. Awardees pursue intelligence research on the Kempner #AI cluster, one of the largest academic AI clusters in the world.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4smmyeW

How the Brain and AI Reuse Old Knowledge in New Situations - Kempner Institute Humans and other animals are remarkably good at using old knowledge in new situations. This ability — known as generalization — allows us to recognize a friend in an unexpected […]

In a new @natneuro.nature.com paper, #KempnerInstitute Investigator @sueyeonchung.bsky.social & her team present a new mathematical theory linking four geometric properties of neural representations to generalization, across brains and AI.

Read more here: bit.ly/4kVbDpT

#NeuroAI #neuroscience

Kempner Institute Welcomes Spring 2026 Undergraduate Student Researchers - Kempner Institute Cambridge, MA – The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the spring 2026 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research...

🤖 Who’s shaping the future of intelligence? 🧠

📯 The #KempnerInstitute proudly announces this semester’s KURE award recipients. Meet the @harvard.edu undergrads exploring the frontiers of natural & artificial intelligence:
kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/kempner...

#AI #NeuroAI #Neuroscience

Anytime Pretraining: Horizon-Free Learning-Rate Schedules with Weight Averaging - Kempner Institute In this work, we show that horizon-free recipes with weight averaging can match cosine pretraining performance, and we prove that these schedulers achieve the optimal convergence rates of stochastic g...

NEW in the Deeper Learning blog: a #KempnerInstitute team describes their recent preprint that shows the existence of “anytime” or “horizon-free” learning schedules: an effective alternative to cosine learning-rate schedules for LLM pretraining.

bit.ly/4qeXAg1 #AI #ML #LLMs

In the latest #KempnerInstitute seminar series talk, Hanna Hajishirzi of @uwcse.bsky.social and @ai2.bsky.social introduces Olmo 3, a family of state-of-the-art, fully-open language and thinking models at the 7B and 32B parameter scales.

Watch the talk ➡️ youtu.be/ei06Or9mwjY

PROTON: A Relational Foundation Model for Neurological Discovery - Kempner Institute Foundation models have transformed AI by scaling sequence-based learning, but many scientific problems are not naturally sequential. In neuroscience, insight depends on relationships across genes, cel...

How can foundational models be optimized for real-world scientific discovery? 🧠

⚛️Introducing PROTON: A new relational foundation model for #neurology from @marinkazitnik.bsky.social and @ayushnoori.bsky.social.

More in the Deeper Learning Blog👉 bit.ly/4jYh1bD
#AI #NeuroAI #KempnerInstitute

In the latest #KempnerInstitute Seminar Series talk, @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social from New York University discussed how deep learning could be used to derive statistical and causal estimators we may not be able to design ourselves.

Watch the talk👉 youtu.be/lz1iJWHLuwk
#AI #DeepLearning

Post-Baccalaureate Program - Kempner Institute Offered in partnership with the Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB), the Kempner’s post-bacc program prepares recen...

📢Last call for applications!
Applications for the #KempnerInstitute #postbac program close on Feb 1. Don't miss the opportunity to receive support in preparing to apply to Ph.D. programs in #intelligence research.

Apply today 👉 bit.ly/3LDj4Fd
@shamkakade.bsky.social

Happy 2nd science birthday to the #KempnerInstitute! 🧠In our 2nd full year we reached 420+ members, 350+ papers, 3,200+ event attendees, and 3M+ GPU hours. See our strides in #intelligence research!

Read the 2025 Annual Report: bit.ly/3LPSVmB
@shamkakade.bsky.social @blsabatini.bsky.social

Kempner Institute Announces 2026 Accelerator Award Recipients - Kempner Institute The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce Nada Amin and Debora Marks as the recipients of the 2026 Kempner […]

Congratulations to #Harvard faculty Nada Amin and Debora Marks (@deboramarks.bsky.social) with Noor Youssef, recipients of the 2026 #KempnerInstitute Accelerator Awards! 🎊

Learn more about their exciting research in the field of #intelligence 👉 bit.ly/49TVgWO

🚨Deadline approaching!

Applications for the #KempnerInstitute #postbac program close on February 1st! This 2-year program offers additional preparation for recent grads applying to Ph.D. programs in #intelligence research. 💡

Apply today 🔗 bit.ly/4aSAXdb
#AI #NeuroAI

Large Video Planner: A New Foundation Model for General-Purpose Robots - Kempner Institute Recent progress in AI has been driven by foundation models trained on internet-scale data. This has inspired a new wave of “robot foundation models” aimed at solving generalization, but such […]

What if robots could imagine their next move? 🤯✨
Researchers at the #KempnerInstitute led by @yilundu.bsky.social have built a #foundationmodel that gives robots visual imagination—changing how they learn to move.
🔗 Blog: bit.ly/4qftkCM | 📰 News: bit.ly/49FCHWf

Research Roundup - Kempner Institute The Kempner Research Roundup compiles publications, preprints and announcements authored by members of the Kempner Institute community. We publish the Roundup approximately three times each academic y...

💡 Check out the #KempnerInstitute December Research Roundup to see pre-prints and papers published by the Kempner community in the last month of 2025.

Here's to new #research for the New Year! 🎉

Discover more ➡️ bit.ly/45FIE31

#AI #NeuroAI

Post-Baccalaureate Program - Kempner Institute Offered in partnership with the Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB), the Kempner’s post-bacc program prepares recen...

📢 Attention recent graduates!

Applications for the #KempnerInstitute #postbac program are now open! A 2-year program offering additional preparation for recent grads applying to Ph.D. programs in #intelligence research.💡

Apply by February 1 ➡️ bit.ly/4aSAXdb

#AI #NeuroAI

Graduate Fellowship - Kempner Institute Kempner Graduate Fellowships support a dynamic and diverse community of PhD students across a number of graduate programs at Harvard, seeding new and innovative scientific discoveries in labs across t...

Opportunity for @Harvard #PhD students 👀

#KempnerInstitute grad fellowship applications are now open!

Join our dynamic community of Ph.D. students studying #intelligence! Apply by Feb. 15.

Learn more and apply ➡️ bit.ly/48ZAP9q

#AI #NeuroAI

Wrapping up #NeurIPS2025 with a final day of workshops!

Check out the concluding day’s presentations from the #KempnerInstitute, which feature new insights and applications in #AI, machine learning and #NeuroAI.

#NeurIPS2025 workshops are underway!

Today’s workshop presentations from the #KempnerInstitute cover a range topics, including the use of #AI in linguistics and the study of communication & sensing in electric fish.

#NeuroAI

Mid-conference momentum! 🔬📈

Today’s #NeurIPS2025 presentations from the #KempnerInstitute showcase a wide variety of research projects at the frontiers of #AI and #NeuroAI.

@thomasfel.bsky.social @andykeller.bsky.social @gershbrain.bsky.social @yilundu.bsky.social @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social

🚀 Kicking off Day 1 of #NeurIPS2025 with a lineup of presentations from researchers at the #KempnerInstitute!

Check out the full list of today’s Kempner presentations!

#AI #NeuroAI

Research Roundup - Kempner Institute The Kempner Research Roundup compiles publications, preprints and announcements authored by members of the Kempner Institute community. We publish the Roundup approximately three times each academic y...

🧐 Wondering what the Kempner's been up to this month? Check out the latest articles and preprints from the #KempnerInstitute in our November research roundup! 📖

Discover the latest in our community's research:
👉 bit.ly/3Xt3K0g

#AI #NeuroAI

Three Kempner Undergraduates Awarded 2026 Rhodes Scholarships - Kempner Institute Cambridge, MA—Three Kempner community members have been awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for 2026 in recognition of their academic excellence, personal characteristics, and leadership. The scho...

🎉Huge congratulations to #KempnerInstitute community members Jay Chooi, @emmafinn314.bsky.social, and Helen He on being named 2026 Rhodes Scholars!
We're so proud to see their talent and leadership recognized on the world stage.🌍🎓
Read more➡️ bit.ly/4r9Mcnn
#RhodesScholar

🚀Congratulations to #KempnerInstitute Investigator SueYeon Chung (@sueyeonchung.bsky.social)!
Honored as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025 for her outstanding achievements in the field.🌟
🔗 bit.ly/4i8uX1J
#AI #NeuroAI #Neuroscience