Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking Intelligence

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, “Repeat After Me: Transformers are Better than State Space Models at Copying, authors Samy Jelassi, David Brandfonbrener, Sham Kakade and Eran Malach show the improved efficiency of State Space Models sacrifices some core capabilities for modern LLMs.

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New research programs in intelligence for Harvard undergraduates

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Building Models of the Brain to Take Them Apart

Computational neuroscientist probes how the brain learns, remembers, and decides

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

Dr. Max 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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