Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.
ImageNet

Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.

Key machine learning datasets are riddled with mistakes. Several benchmark datasets are shot through with incorrect labels. On average, 3.4 percent of examples in 10 commonly used datasets are mislabeled and the detrimental impact of such errors rises with model size.

April 14, 20212 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
ImageNet

Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.

It’s well established that pretraining a model on a large dataset improves performance on fine-tuned tasks. In sufficient quantity and paired with a big model, even data scraped from the internet at random can contribute to the performance boost.

April 7, 20212 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
ImageNet

Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.

It’s well established that pretraining a model on a large dataset improves performance on fine-tuned tasks. In sufficient quantity and paired with a big model, even data scraped from the internet at random can contribute to the performance boost.

April 7, 20212 min read
De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.
ImageNet

De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.

ImageNet now comes with privacy protection.What’s new: The team that manages the machine learning community’s go-to image dataset blurred all the human faces pictured in it and tested how models trained on the modified images on a variety of image recognition tasks.

April 7, 20212 min read
De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.
ImageNet

De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.

ImageNet now comes with privacy protection.What’s new: The team that manages the machine learning community’s go-to image dataset blurred all the human faces pictured in it and tested how models trained on the modified images on a variety of image recognition tasks.

April 7, 20212 min read
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
ImageNet

ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.

It’s commonly assumed that models pretrained to achieve high performance on ImageNet will perform better on other visual tasks after fine-tuning. But is it always true? A new study reached surprising conclusions.

March 10, 20212 min read
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
ImageNet

ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.

It’s commonly assumed that models pretrained to achieve high performance on ImageNet will perform better on other visual tasks after fine-tuning. But is it always true? A new study reached surprising conclusions.

March 10, 20212 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
ImageNet

Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

February 17, 20212 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
ImageNet

Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

February 17, 20212 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
ImageNet

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.
ImageNet

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
Representing the Underrepresented: Many important AI datasets contain bias.
ImageNet

Representing the Underrepresented: Many important AI datasets contain bias.

Some of deep learning’s bedrock datasets came under scrutiny as researchers combed them for built-in biases. Researchers found that popular datasets impart biases against socially marginalized groups to trained models due to the ways the datasets were compiled, labeled, and used.

December 23, 20202 min read
Representing the Underrepresented: Many important AI datasets contain bias.
ImageNet

Representing the Underrepresented: Many important AI datasets contain bias.

Some of deep learning’s bedrock datasets came under scrutiny as researchers combed them for built-in biases. Researchers found that popular datasets impart biases against socially marginalized groups to trained models due to the ways the datasets were compiled, labeled, and used.

December 23, 20202 min read
Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.
ImageNet

Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.

Social biases are well documented in decisions made by supervised models trained on ImageNet’s labels. But they also crept into the output of unsupervised models pretrained on the same dataset.

November 18, 20202 min read
Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.
ImageNet

Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.

Social biases are well documented in decisions made by supervised models trained on ImageNet’s labels. But they also crept into the output of unsupervised models pretrained on the same dataset.

November 18, 20202 min read

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