On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of failures in their scheduling, initially triggered by severe winter weather in the Denver area. But the problems spread through…
MIT today launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to reinfuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, bolster crucial U.S. economic sectors, and ignite job creation. The initiative will encompass advanced research, innovative education programs, and partnership…
While large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in short-context reasoning through reinforcement learning (RL), these gains do not generalize well to long-context scenarios. Applications such as multi-document QA, research synthesis, and legal or financial analysis require models to…
Neural networks have long been powerful tools for handling complex data-driven tasks. Still, they often struggle to make discrete decisions under strict constraints, like routing vehicles or scheduling jobs. These discrete decision problems, commonly found in operations research, are computationally…
Chaotic systems, such as fluid dynamics or brain activity, are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making long-term predictions difficult. Even minor errors in modeling these systems can rapidly grow, which limits the effectiveness of many scientific machine learning (SciML) approaches.…
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a fundamental approach in LLM post-training, utilizing supervision signals from human feedback (RLHF) or verifiable rewards (RLVR). While RLVR shows promise in mathematical reasoning, it faces significant constraints due to dependence on training queries…
Real-world data is often costly, messy, and limited by privacy rules. Synthetic data offers a solution—and it’s already widely used: LLMs train on AI-generated text Fraud systems simulate edge cases Vision models pretrain on fake images SDV (Synthetic Data Vault)…
NVIDIA has released Llama Nemotron Nano 4B, an open-source reasoning model designed to deliver strong performance and efficiency across scientific tasks, programming, symbolic math, function calling, and instruction following—while being compact enough for edge deployment. With just 4 billion parameters,…
In this tutorial, we will discover how to harness the power of an advanced AI Agent, augmented with both Python execution and result-validation capabilities, to tackle complex computational tasks. By integrating LangChain’s ReAct agent framework with Anthropic’s Claude API, we…
Reasoning capabilities represent a fundamental component of AI systems. The introduction of OpenAI o1 sparked significant interest in building reasoning models through large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) approaches. While DeepSeek-R1’s open-sourcing empowered the community to develop state-of-the-art reasoning models, critical technical…
