Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery
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Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery

Computer vision systems are scanning satellite photos to track construction on the Earth’s surface — an exercise in behavior recognition on a global scale.

July 6, 20223 min read
Who Was That Masked Input? Pretraining Method Improves Computer Vision Performance
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Who Was That Masked Input? Pretraining Method Improves Computer Vision Performance

Researchers have shown that it’s possible to train a computer vision model effectively on around 66 percent of the pixels in each training image. New work used 25 percent, saving computation and boosting performance to boot.

July 6, 20222 min read
Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery
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Tracking Changes on Earth’s Surface: AI Tracks Land Change from Satellite Imagery

Computer vision systems are scanning satellite photos to track construction on the Earth’s surface — an exercise in behavior recognition on a global scale.

July 6, 20223 min read
Who Was That Masked Input? Pretraining Method Improves Computer Vision Performance
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Who Was That Masked Input? Pretraining Method Improves Computer Vision Performance

Researchers have shown that it’s possible to train a computer vision model effectively on around 66 percent of the pixels in each training image. New work used 25 percent, saving computation and boosting performance to boot.

July 6, 20222 min read
Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People

People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.

June 22, 20222 min read
Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People
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Deep Doo-Doo: AI App Diagnoses Poop Better Than People

People who suffer from gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome are number two when it comes to describing the characteristics of their own poop.

June 22, 20222 min read
K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained
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K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained

If you’re standing close to others at a party, it’s likely you have something in common. This is the idea behind using k-means clustering to split data points into groups. Whether the groups formed via human agency or some other force, this algorithm will find them.

May 25, 20222 min read
K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained
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K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained

If you’re standing close to others at a party, it’s likely you have something in common. This is the idea behind using k-means clustering to split data points into groups. Whether the groups formed via human agency or some other force, this algorithm will find them.

May 25, 20222 min read
Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained
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Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained

What kind of beast was Aristotle? The philosopher's follower Porphyry, who lived in Syria during the third century, came up with a logical way to answer the question...

May 25, 20223 min read
Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained
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Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained

What kind of beast was Aristotle? The philosopher's follower Porphyry, who lived in Syria during the third century, came up with a logical way to answer the question...

May 25, 20223 min read
Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data
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Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data

Vision Transformer (ViT) outperformed convolutional neural networks in image classification, but it required more training data. New work enabled ViT and its variants to outperform other architectures with less training data.

May 4, 20222 min read
Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data
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Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data

Vision Transformer (ViT) outperformed convolutional neural networks in image classification, but it required more training data. New work enabled ViT and its variants to outperform other architectures with less training data.

May 4, 20222 min read
Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.
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Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.

Most U.S. state agencies use AI without limits or oversight. An investigative report probed reasons why efforts to rein them in have made little headway. Since 2018, nearly every proposed bill aimed at studying or controlling how state agencies use automated decision systems.

February 2, 20222 min read
Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.
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Roadblocks to Regulation: Why laws to regulate AI usually fail.

Most U.S. state agencies use AI without limits or oversight. An investigative report probed reasons why efforts to rein them in have made little headway. Since 2018, nearly every proposed bill aimed at studying or controlling how state agencies use automated decision systems.

February 2, 20222 min read
Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More
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Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More

In 2021, transformers were harnessed to discover drugs, recognize speech, and paint pictures — and much more.

December 22, 20212 min read

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