{"id":150353,"date":"2022-11-16T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/mit-solved-a-century-old-differential-equation-to-break-liquid-ais-computational-bottleneck"},"modified":"2022-11-16T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:24:02","slug":"mit-solved-a-century-old-differential-equation-to-break-liquid-ais-computational-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/mit-solved-a-century-old-differential-equation-to-break-liquid-ais-computational-bottleneck","title":{"rendered":"MIT solved a century-old differential equation to break \u2018liquid\u2019 AI\u2019s computational bottleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-solved-a-century-old-differential-equation-to-break-liquid-ais-computational-bottleneck.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, MIT developed an AI\/ML algorithm capable of learning and adapting to new information while on the job, not just during its initial training phase. These <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2021\/machine-learning-adapts-0128\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cliquid\u201d neural networks<\/a> (in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Lee<\/a> sense) literally play 4D chess \u2014 their models requiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influxdata.com\/what-is-time-series-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">time-series data<\/a> to operate \u2014 which makes them ideal for use in time-sensitive tasks like pacemaker monitoring, weather forecasting, investment forecasting, or autonomous vehicle navigation. But, the problem is that data throughput has become a bottleneck, and scaling these systems has become prohibitively expensive, computationally speaking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJMwBwFj5nQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, MIT researchers announced that they have devised a solution to that restriction, not by widening the data pipeline but by solving a differential equation that has stumped mathematicians since 1907. Specifically, the team solved, \u201cthe differential equation behind the interaction of two neurons through synapses\u2026 to unlock a new type of fast and efficient artificial intelligence algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new machine learning models we call \u2018CfC\u2019s\u2019 [closed-form Continuous-time] replace the differential equation defining the computation of the neuron with a closed form approximation, preserving the beautiful properties of liquid networks without the need for numerical integration,\u201d MIT professor and CSAIL Director Daniela Rus said in a Tuesday press statement. \u201cCfC models are causal, compact, explainable, and efficient to train and predict. They open the way to trustworthy machine learning for safety-critical applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, MIT developed an AI\/ML algorithm capable of learning and adapting to new information while on the job, not just during its initial training phase. These \u201cliquid\u201d neural networks (in the Bruce Lee sense) literally play 4D chess \u2014 their models requiring time-series data to operate \u2014 which makes them ideal for use in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}