A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
Google

A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
Google

A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read
Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners
Google

Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners

A computer vision system is helping to keep runners with impaired vision on track.What’s new: A prototype smartphone app developed by Google translates camera images into audio signals.

December 9, 20202 min read
Prosperity of the Commons: Tools from MLCommons for improved model development
Google

Prosperity of the Commons: Tools from MLCommons for improved model development

A new consortium of companies, schools, and research labs is building open tools for next-generation machine learning. MLCommons aims to foster innovation in machine learning by developing new benchmarks, datasets, and best practices.

December 9, 20201 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
Google

The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.

The latest pretrained language models have shown a remarkable ability to learn facts. A new study drills down on issues of scale, showing that such models might learn the approximate weight of a dog or cost of an apple, at least to the right order of magnitude.

December 9, 20202 min read
Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners
Google

Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners

A computer vision system is helping to keep runners with impaired vision on track.What’s new: A prototype smartphone app developed by Google translates camera images into audio signals.

December 9, 20202 min read
Prosperity of the Commons: Tools from MLCommons for improved model development
Google

Prosperity of the Commons: Tools from MLCommons for improved model development

A new consortium of companies, schools, and research labs is building open tools for next-generation machine learning. MLCommons aims to foster innovation in machine learning by developing new benchmarks, datasets, and best practices.

December 9, 20201 min read
The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.
Google

The Measure of a Muppet: How NLP models learn attributes of pretrained embeddings.

The latest pretrained language models have shown a remarkable ability to learn facts. A new study drills down on issues of scale, showing that such models might learn the approximate weight of a dog or cost of an apple, at least to the right order of magnitude.

December 9, 20202 min read
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
Google

Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.

Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.

October 21, 20202 min read
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
Google

Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.

Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.

October 21, 20202 min read
Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly
Google

Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly

A typical GAN’s output doesn’t necessarily reflect the data distribution of its training set. Instead, GANs are prone to modeling the majority of the training distribution, sometimes ignoring rare attributes — say, faces that represent minority populations.

September 30, 20202 min read
Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly
Google

Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly

A typical GAN’s output doesn’t necessarily reflect the data distribution of its training set. Instead, GANs are prone to modeling the majority of the training distribution, sometimes ignoring rare attributes — say, faces that represent minority populations.

September 30, 20202 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
Google

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

August 5, 20201 min read
Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.
Google

Built for Speed: Nvidia topped MLPerf's training benchmarks in 2020.

Chips specially designed for AI are becoming much faster at training neural networks, judging from recent trials. MLPerf, an organization that’s developing standards for hardware performance in machine learning tasks, released results from its third benchmark competition.

August 5, 20201 min read
Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.
Google

Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.

When the chips are down, humans can track critical details without being distracted by irrelevancies. New research helps reinforcement learning models similarly focus on the most important details.

July 29, 20202 min read

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