Research Fellows David Clark and Binxu Wang will conclude their time at the Kempner Institute this month after making significant contributions to the Institute’s exploration of intelligence through r...

As Kempner Institute Research Fellows Wilka Carvalho, T. Anderson (Andy) Keller, and Gabriel Poesia conclude their fellowships this month, the Institute bids farewell to three scholars whose work has ...

Abstract. The term 5- to 7-year shift refers to the marked changes in behavior observed as children transition from preschool age to school age. In 1996, a

Many artificial intelligence systems work like solitary assistants. A human user gives an AI model a problem, and the model plans, reasons, and produces an answer on its own. But […]

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Haim Sompolinsky, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Physics in Residence, has been awarded the 2026 Dirac Medal, one of the most prestigious international honors in […]

Recurrent neural network framework could accelerate research into depression, memory disorders

The Kempner brings leading, early-stage postdoctoral scientists to Harvard to work on projects that advance the fundamental understanding of intelligence.

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Kempner Institute Accelerator Awards, a grant program...

Cambridge, MA — The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence today announced the names of 16 students chosen as the incoming 2026 cohort of Kempner graduate […]

The usefulness of a pretrained model depends not only on what it has learned, but also on its plasticity, i.e., its ability to keep learning. However, despite its importance for […]

Please fill out this form if you're interested in attending our community event at CCN 2026! No sign-up required to join, but an RSVP helps us get a headcount. Time: Wednesday, 5th August 2026, 16:0...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the appointment of Nada Amin and Sitan Chen as associate […]

Allston, MA— How much can a simplified quadratic model actually reveal about large-scale deep-learning optimization behavior in the pretraining of large language models (LLMs)? Quite a lot, says Kempn...

A paper by Kempner Institute researchers has received an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention at ICML 2026, the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, held July 6–11, 2026, in Seoul, South ...

This workshop will convene researchers from artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive science, and related disciplines to examine the principles governing learning and training dynamics across ...

Making the leap from curious undergraduate student to bona fide scientist requires learning how to ask the right questions, and access to the tools and techniques necessary to find answers. […]

Open-source resource poised to propel research on how nervous systems work

Allston, MA — Research Fellows Naomi Saphra and Alex Damian conclude their fellowships at the Kempner today and will soon begin new faculty appointments at Boston University and MIT, respectively. […]

We find that adversarial prompt-injection attacks on large language models can amplify attack success rate from the slow polynomial growth observed without injection to exponential growth with the num...

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the 2026 cohort of scholars awarded placement in the Kempner Institute Post-Baccalaureate P...

Understanding how specific neurons contribute to behavior is one of neuroscience’s central challenges. A new study of grooming behavior in fruit flies, recently published in Nature Communications, sho...

The Harvard assistant professor of physics and applied math won the grant for cutting-edge neuroscience research.

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Designing the computer chips that power modern electronics has long depended on a combination of mathematical optimization and human visual intuition. Experienced chip designers often rely on spatial ...

Multi-Modal Manipulation via Policy Consensus

Cambridge, MA — On May 21, researchers, students, fellows, and faculty from across the Kempner Institute community gathered at Harvard’s David Rubenstein Treehouse in Allston for the institute’s third...

Cambridge, MA — The Kempner Institute is pleased to announce its third cohort of undergraduate summer researchers selected for KRANIUM, a 9-week intensive summer research program in intelligence for H...

Allston, MA — The Kempner Institute recently hosted its inaugural Post-Baccalaureate Capstone Event, celebrating the first four scholars as they near completion of the Kempner Post-Baccalaureate Progr...