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Combining technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning | MIT News
MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Fellow Caitlin Morris is an architect, artist, researcher, and educator who has studied psychology and used online learning tools to teach herself coding and other skills. She’s a soft-spoken observer, with a keen interest in how people use space and respond to their environments. Combining her observational skills with active community…
A sounding board for strengthening the student experience | MIT News
During his first year at MIT in 2021, Matthew Caren ’25 received an intriguing email inviting students to apply to become members of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s (SCC) Undergraduate Advisory Group (UAG). He immediately shot off an application.Caren is a jazz musician who majored in computer science and engineering, and minored in music…
EPFL Researchers Introduce MEMOIR: A Scalable Framework for Lifelong Model Editing in LLMs
The Challenge of Updating LLM Knowledge LLMs have shown outstanding performance for various tasks through extensive pre-training on vast datasets. However, these models frequently generate outdated or inaccurate information and can reflect biases during deployment, so their knowledge needs to be updated continuously. Traditional fine-tuning methods are expensive and susceptible to catastrophic forgetting. This…
How to Use python-A2A to Create and Connect Financial Agents with Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol
Python A2A is an implementation of Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, which enables AI agents to communicate with each other using a shared, standardized format—eliminating the need for custom integration between services. In this tutorial, we’ll use the decorator-based approach provided by the python-a2a library. With simple @agent and @skill decorators, you can define your…
Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology | MIT News
On May 6, MIT AgeLab’s Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium, part of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, celebrated 10 years of its global academic-industry collaboration. AVT was founded with the aim of developing new data that contribute to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and insurers’ real-world understanding of how drivers use and respond to…
OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM4: Ultra-Efficient Language Models for Edge Devices with Sparse Attention and Fast Inference
The Need for Efficient On-Device Language Models Large language models have become integral to AI systems, enabling tasks like multilingual translation, virtual assistance, and automated reasoning through transformer-based architectures. While highly capable, these models are typically large, requiring powerful cloud infrastructure for training and inference. This reliance leads to latency, high costs, and privacy…