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    • Signaling at the Tumor-Immune Interface in Glioblastoma 

      D'Souza, Alicia D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating brain cancer, and the standard of care has not changed in over 20 years. GBM tumors are composed of a milieu of cancer cells and innate immune cells, which are co-opted by the cancer ...

    • SmellNet: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition 

      Feng, Dewei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      The ability of AI to sense and identify various substances based on their smell alone can have profound impacts on allergen detection (e.g., smelling gluten or peanuts in a cake), monitoring the manufacturing process, and ...

    • Towards Zero-Shot Pretrained Models for Efficient Black-Box Optimization 

      Meindl, Jamison Chivvis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Global optimization of expensive, derivative-free black-box functions requires extreme sample efficiency. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is the current state-of-the-art, its performance hinges on surrogate and acquisition ...