Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
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Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes

Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.

September 8, 20211 min read
Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes
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Solar System: AI Helps NASA Calibrate its Solar Telescopes

Astronomers may use deep learning to keep the sun in focus.What’s new: Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Catholic University of America, University of Oslo, and elsewhere developed a model that helps recalibrate a space telescope focused on the sun.

September 8, 20211 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
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Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read
Biomedical Treasure Chest: DeepMind open sources AlphaFold and protein databases.
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Biomedical Treasure Chest: DeepMind open sources AlphaFold and protein databases.

DeepMind opened access to AlphaFold, a model that finds the shapes of proteins, and to its output so far — a potential cornucopia for biomedical research. The research lab, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, made AlphaFold freely available.

August 4, 20212 min read
Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.
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Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.

Why use a complex model when a simple one will do? New work shows that the simplest multilayer neural network, with a small twist, can perform some tasks as well as today’s most sophisticated architectures.

August 4, 20212 min read
Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.

Why use a complex model when a simple one will do? New work shows that the simplest multilayer neural network, with a small twist, can perform some tasks as well as today’s most sophisticated architectures.

August 4, 20212 min read
Biomedical Treasure Chest: DeepMind open sources AlphaFold and protein databases.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Biomedical Treasure Chest: DeepMind open sources AlphaFold and protein databases.

DeepMind opened access to AlphaFold, a model that finds the shapes of proteins, and to its output so far — a potential cornucopia for biomedical research. The research lab, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, made AlphaFold freely available.

August 4, 20212 min read
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.

Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.

July 14, 20212 min read
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.

Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.

July 14, 20212 min read
Behavioral Cloning Shootout: AI learns to play Counter Strike  Global Offensive.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Behavioral Cloning Shootout: AI learns to play Counter Strike Global Offensive.

Neural networks have learned to play video games like Dota 2 via reinforcement learning by playing for the equivalent of thousands of years (compressed into far less time). In new work, an automated player learned not by playing for millennia but by watching a few days’ worth of recorded gameplay.

July 7, 20212 min read

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