A new computational method facilitates the dense placement of objects inside a rigid container.

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.

Researchers develop an algorithm that decides when a “student” machine should follow its teacher, and when it should learn on its own.

The role-playing game “On the Plane” simulates xenophobia to foster greater understanding and reflection via virtual experiences.

MIT researchers are discovering which parts of the brain are engaged when a person evaluates a computer program.

Researchers make headway in solving a longstanding problem of balancing curious “exploration” versus “exploitation” of known pathways in reinforcement learning.

“Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution.