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MIT scientists completed one of the most demanding calculations in fusion science: predicting the temperature and density profiles of a magnetically confined plasma via first-principles simulation of plasma turbulence. The researchers used an optimization methodology developed for machine learning to dramatically reduce the CPU time required while maintaining the accuracy of the solution.