GANs for Smaller Data: Training GANs on small data without overfitting
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GANs for Smaller Data: Training GANs on small data without overfitting

Trained on a small dataset, generative adversarial networks (GANs) tend to generate either replicas of the training data or noisy output. A new method spurs them to produce satisfying variations.

October 14, 20202 min read
The Geopolitics of Data: How data impacts military uses of AI
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The Geopolitics of Data: How data impacts military uses of AI

Some politicians and pundits believe that, in the AI era, the military with the most data wins. A new analysis disputes this notion. A report by Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology examines the relative strengths of the Chinese and U.S. militaries in AI.

September 9, 20202 min read
The Geopolitics of Data: How data impacts military uses of AI
Datasets

The Geopolitics of Data: How data impacts military uses of AI

Some politicians and pundits believe that, in the AI era, the military with the most data wins. A new analysis disputes this notion. A report by Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology examines the relative strengths of the Chinese and U.S. militaries in AI.

September 9, 20202 min read
Tiny Images, Outsized Biases: Why MIT withdrew the Tiny Images dataset
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Tiny Images, Outsized Biases: Why MIT withdrew the Tiny Images dataset

MIT withdrew a popular computer vision dataset after researchers found that it was rife with social bias. Researchers found racist, misogynistic, and demeaning labels among the nearly 80 million pictures in Tiny Images, a collection of 32-by-32 pixel color photos.

July 8, 20202 min read
Tiny Images, Outsized Biases: Why MIT withdrew the Tiny Images dataset
Datasets

Tiny Images, Outsized Biases: Why MIT withdrew the Tiny Images dataset

MIT withdrew a popular computer vision dataset after researchers found that it was rife with social bias. Researchers found racist, misogynistic, and demeaning labels among the nearly 80 million pictures in Tiny Images, a collection of 32-by-32 pixel color photos.

July 8, 20202 min read
Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes
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Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes

In any training dataset, some classes may have relatively few examples. A new technique can improve a trained model’s performance on such underrepresented classes. Researchers introduced a method that synthesizes extracted features of underrepresented classes.

June 10, 20202 min read
Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes
Datasets

Augmentation for Features: A technique for boosting underrepresented data classes

In any training dataset, some classes may have relatively few examples. A new technique can improve a trained model’s performance on such underrepresented classes. Researchers introduced a method that synthesizes extracted features of underrepresented classes.

June 10, 20202 min read
Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic
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Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic

The pandemic has forced self-driving car companies off the road. Now they’re moving forward by refining their mountains of training data. Self-driving cars typically collect real-world training data with two human operators onboard, but Covid-19 makes that unsafe at any speed.

June 3, 20201 min read
Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic
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Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic

The pandemic has forced self-driving car companies off the road. Now they’re moving forward by refining their mountains of training data. Self-driving cars typically collect real-world training data with two human operators onboard, but Covid-19 makes that unsafe at any speed.

June 3, 20201 min read
Goodbye Tourists, Hello Labelers: How Samasource kept its data labelers safe from Covid-19
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Goodbye Tourists, Hello Labelers: How Samasource kept its data labelers safe from Covid-19

Covid-19 has cost many workers their livelihood, but it has provided a lucky few on the lowest rungs of Africa’s machine learning industry with luxury suites.

June 3, 20202 min read
Goodbye Tourists, Hello Labelers: How Samasource kept its data labelers safe from Covid-19
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Goodbye Tourists, Hello Labelers: How Samasource kept its data labelers safe from Covid-19

Covid-19 has cost many workers their livelihood, but it has provided a lucky few on the lowest rungs of Africa’s machine learning industry with luxury suites.

June 3, 20202 min read
Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services
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Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services

When the world is panning for machine learning gold, it pays to help them dig through the data. Machine learning entrepreneurs can make their mark (and their fortune) building services that help other companies develop, deploy, and monitor AI, venture capitalist Rob Toews argues in Forbes.

April 1, 20201 min read
Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services
Datasets

Selling Shovels to Data Miners: A survey of AI business-to-business services

When the world is panning for machine learning gold, it pays to help them dig through the data. Machine learning entrepreneurs can make their mark (and their fortune) building services that help other companies develop, deploy, and monitor AI, venture capitalist Rob Toews argues in Forbes.

April 1, 20201 min read
Rightsizing Neural Nets: An equation for predicting optimal data and model size
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Rightsizing Neural Nets: An equation for predicting optimal data and model size

How much data do we want? More! How large should the model be? Bigger! How much more and how much bigger? New research estimates the impact of dataset and model sizes on neural network performance.

March 25, 20202 min read
Rightsizing Neural Nets: An equation for predicting optimal data and model size
Datasets

Rightsizing Neural Nets: An equation for predicting optimal data and model size

How much data do we want? More! How large should the model be? Bigger! How much more and how much bigger? New research estimates the impact of dataset and model sizes on neural network performance.

March 25, 20202 min read

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