Kempner Institute at Harvard University
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The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at @Harvard University. RTs ≠ Endorsements
What is the #KempnerInstitute? Watch a short video feature to dive deeper into our mission and meet the researchers behind it: bit.ly/49ODO2K #AI #ML #NeuroAI #neuroscience @Harvard

excited to share our blog post on how to scale offline RL at test-time!
New in the #DeeperLearningBlog: Researchers from the #KempnerInstitute, @Cornell and @CMU_Robotics introduce a new method for improving offline RL by scaling-up test-time compute. kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/research/deepe… #AI #RL (1/2)
🚀 260+ teams have entered the CUREBench @NeurIPSConf 2025 Challenge! 🚀 curebench.ai Challenge Tracks: • Track 1: AI models relying solely on built-in memory • Track 2: AI systems that leverage external tools and resources Evaluation is by agentic judges…
Join the CUREBench @NeurIPSConf 2025 Challenge at curebench.ai for therapeutic reasoning! We are excited to see that 130+ teams have joined! @cziscience @MilkenInstitute @BiswasFamilyFdn @cziscience Rare as One program @harvardmed @BrighamWomens @HarvardDBMI
New in the #DeeperLearningBlog: #KempnerInstitute research fellow @t_andy_keller introduces the first flow equivariant neural networks, which reflect motion symmetries, greatly enhancing generalization and sequence modeling. bit.ly/451fQ48 #AI #NeuroAI
Check out the #KempnerInstitute's presentations at #ICML2025 today!

New in the #DeeperLearningBlog: #KempnerInstitute researchers @WangBinxu and @johnjvastola explain their work uncovering the linear Gaussian structure in diffusion models and the potential to use it to enhance performance. bit.ly/4lCauDv #AI #DiffusionModels
Here are today's #ICML2025 presentations from the #KempnerInstitute!

Congratulations to the authors of “Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions," which won an outstanding paper award at #ICML2025. This is leading work in AI from researchers out of UT Austin and Harvard University.
A team from #KempnerInstitute, @hseas & @UTCompSci has won a best paper award at #ICML2025 for work unlocking the potential of masked diffusion models. Congrats to @Jaeyeon_Kim_0, @shahkulin98, Vasilis Kontonis, @ShamKakade6 and @sitanch. kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/kempner-i… #AI
Excited to see that 130+ teams have already entered CUREBench @NeurIPSConf 2025 Challenge Start here: curebench.ai Evaluate AI deeply and broadly for therapeutics @GaoShanghua @cziscience @MilkenInstitute @BiswasFamilyFdn @cziscience Rare as One program @harvardmed…
📣 Competition launch alert! CUREBench competition at @NeurIPSConf 2025 Start here: curebench.ai Benchmarking AI for therapeutic reasoning, drug discovery, treatment planning, and therapeutic decision-making 🎯 Track 1: Develop AI models that rely on parametric…
Check out the #KempnerInstitute presentations at #ICML2025 today! #AI #LLMs

Trained on 2M+ interaction complexes, ATOMICA learns atomic-to-molecular embeddings of interaction interfaces @AdaFang_ In the latest preprint: 🎯 Wetlab tests of AI predictions: Experimental validation confirms heme binding for 5 ATOMICA-predicted sites in uncharacterized…
Introducing ATOMICA 💫 A model to universally represent molecular interactions (for proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, and ions) at an all-atom scale 🧵
Come check out recent work on history guided video diffusion tomorrow!
Come visit our #ICML2025 poster on Diffusion Forcing Transformer tomorrow! Stop by to chat about sequence/video diffusion, or anything related to generative and world models. I’ll be presenting with @du_yilun on Thursday, 4:30–7pm at West Hall B2-B3 (#W-205).
If you're attending #ICML2025, check out today's presentations from the #KempnerInstitute! #AI #NeuroAI

In case you're not at ICML, check out the talk @MasonKamb gave at the #KempnerInstitute's #NeuroAI2025 symposium: youtu.be/DP_kGt0-2cg #AI
I'm at ICML presenting this work! Come by on Tuesday to hear about/chat about combinatorial generalization and creativity in diffusion models. x.com/MasonKamb/stat…
Thrilled to announce the 2025 recipients of #KempnerInstitute Research Fellowships: Elom Amemastro, Ruojin Cai, David Clark, Alexandru Damian, William Dorrell, Mark Goldstein, Richard Hakim, Hadas Orgad, Gizem Ozdil, Gabriel Poesia, & Greta Tuckute! bit.ly/3IpzD5E

If you want to learn about @SuryaGanguli's work but can't make it to ICML, watch his talk from the #KempnerInstitute's #NeuroAI2025 symposium: youtu.be/jLmK0l5SKm4?si… #NeuroAI #neuroscience
Looking forward to attending #icml25 all week!
Enjoyed speaking with @NewYorker on what makes today’s AI better at therapeutic reasoning than past models To test reasoning models deeply and broadly, join our CUREBench competition at @NeurIPSConf 2025 Start here: curebench.ai
Repurposing drugs enhanced by A.I.? newyorker.com/culture/open-q… by @DhruvKhullar @DavidFajgenbaum @EveryCure
If you can't make it to ICML and want to learn more about @du_yilun's work, check out the great talk he gave at the #KempnerInstitute's #NeuroAI2025 symposium: youtube.com/watch?v=UKbLBO… #AI #NeuroAI
I'll be at @icmlconf! Will help present: - Scene Understanding with Generative Models (shorturl.at/JrvJL) - History-guided World Models (shorturl.at/lCkfc) - Adaptable World Models (shorturl.at/99Xmw) We'll also host a workshop on physical world models!
A team from #KempnerInstitute, @hseas & @UTCompSci has won a best paper award at #ICML2025 for work unlocking the potential of masked diffusion models. Congrats to @Jaeyeon_Kim_0, @shahkulin98, Vasilis Kontonis, @ShamKakade6 and @sitanch. kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/news/kempner-i… #AI