Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation
Google

Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation

Training a model to separate the objects in a picture typically requires labeled images for best results. Recent work upped the ante for training without labels.

January 11, 20232 min read
Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages
Google

Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages

Recent work showed that models for multilingual machine translation can increase the number of languages they translate by scraping the web for pairs of equivalent sentences in different languages. A new study radically expanded the language repertoire through training on untranslated web text.

November 2, 20223 min read
Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages
Google

Massively Multilingual Translation: Machine Learning Model Trained to Translate 1,000 Languages

Recent work showed that models for multilingual machine translation can increase the number of languages they translate by scraping the web for pairs of equivalent sentences in different languages. A new study radically expanded the language repertoire through training on untranslated web text.

November 2, 20223 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
Google

Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
Google

Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions
Google

Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

September 28, 20222 min read
Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions
Google

Parsing Commands Into Actions: NLP Helps Google Robot Understand Spoken Instructions

A new method enables robots to respond helpfully to verbal commands by pairing a natural language model with a repertoire of existing skills.

September 28, 20222 min read
Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners
Google

Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners

French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools

September 7, 20221 min read
Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners
Google

Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners

French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools

September 7, 20221 min read
Misinformation Recognition: Google Updated its Search Engine to Minimize Disinformation
Google

Misinformation Recognition: Google Updated its Search Engine to Minimize Disinformation

Google updated the Multitask Unified model its search algorithm to respond to the flood of misinformation on the web.

August 31, 20221 min read
Misinformation Recognition: Google Updated its Search Engine to Minimize Disinformation
Google

Misinformation Recognition: Google Updated its Search Engine to Minimize Disinformation

Google updated the Multitask Unified model its search algorithm to respond to the flood of misinformation on the web.

August 31, 20221 min read
Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles
Google

Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.

August 17, 20222 min read
Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles
Google

Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.

August 17, 20222 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Google

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Google

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read

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