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Large Population Models: Orchestrating a Billion Agents

Our world stands at the cusp of an unprecedented transformation. As billions of AI agents begin to augment human society, we face a fundame…
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MIT Kumbhathon: A City-Stack Powered by Decentralized AI

​A City-Stack Powered by Decentralized AIOverviewMIT Kumbhathon, hosted at the MIT Media Lab, is pioneering a revolutionary approach t…
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Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Data Markets

The acquisition of training data is crucial for machine learning applications. Data markets can increase the supply of data, particularly i…
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Improving OpenCBDC resilience through smart contract runtime hardening and privacy-preserving limits

There are some security risks in PArSEC as is – namely, embedding a general-purpose language exposes the system and Lua smart contracts hav…
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Preserving Privacy in CBDC with Deutsche Bundesbank

We are conducting collaborative research on design and engineering options for a hypothetical central bank digital currency. The work may i…
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A Model and Estimation of Bitcoin Transaction Fees

Bitcoin miners compete to earn a block reward by applying hashrate to solve a puzzle set by the code. Equilibrium hashrate is a function of…
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Evaluating the Practical Privacy of Whirlpool CoinJoins

Bitcoin is the leading public permissionless digital currency. Bitcoin uses a public ledger to achieve strong security properties and doubl…
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Decentralized AI

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
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Bitcoin Security in Absence of Block Rewards

In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
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Measuring, Auditing, and Improving Bitcoin-Core’s Kitchen Sink Random Number Generator

Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
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Remaking City by Community-based Social Innovation

The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
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Zero-knowledge (ZK) Tax

zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
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Fora Data Set

This project collates and explores public data from 200+ facilitated dialogues that occurred through the Fora platform in the last several …
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Conversation Dynamics

Making visible dynamics within conversations enables us to see conversation quality, dynamics between participants, the impact of facilitat…
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Conversation Chains

Using natural language processing and machine learning, we discover emergent themes and patterns within our dialogue data set. Exploring ho…
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The speed of news in Twitter versus radio

We examine whether and how the speed of spread and decay of news events differ between social media and broadcast media based on a sample o…
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Data Provenance for AI

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
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Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
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Theme | AI Collaboration + Decision Making

Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
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▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
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Secure DNA

A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
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Detecting and Mapping Transparent or Mirror-like Surfaces with Lidar

Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
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Interactive Stories for Learning AI and Programming in Preschool

Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
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Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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Bitcoin Security Initiative

Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
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OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
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Catalan.ai

OverviewMost SMBs make pricing decisions using intuition and inefficient methods (the old school way), yielding sub-par sales. However, wit…
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Large Language Models for Automated Sensemaking

In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
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Divergences in Following Patterns between Influential Twitter Users and their Audiences

Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
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Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
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The Atlas of Opportunity

The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
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Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT)

The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
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Computational Privacy for Computer Vision

Computer Vision applications are making a remarkable impact on society and advancing progress in Machine Learning. Our project aims to desi…
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Task-Agnostic Data Valuation

Data is the main fuel of the modern world, enabling artificial intelligence and driving technological growth. The demand for data has grown…
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Posthoc Privacy guarantees for neural network queries

Cloud based machine learning inference is an emerging paradigm where users query with their data to a service provider who runs a ML model …
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ADESS: A Proof of Work Blockchain Protocol Modification to Deter Double-Spend Attacks

A principal vulnerability of a proof-of-work ("PoW") blockchain is that an attacker can re-write the history of transactions by forking a p…
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Targeted Nakamoto: A Bitcoin Protocol to Balance Network Security and Energy Consumption

In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network vu…
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
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Decentralized Social Systems

A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…