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

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

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
Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.
MIT

Image Generation Transformed: New research combines GANs with transformers.

A recent generative adversarial network (GAN) produced more coherent images using modified transformers that replaced fully connected layers with convolutional layers. A new GAN achieved a similar end using transformers in their original form.

April 14, 20212 min read
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
MIT

Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
MIT

Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read
Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
MIT

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.
MIT

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
The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.
MIT

The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.

A neural network learned to read the genes of viruses as though they were text. That could enable researchers to page ahead for potentially dangerous mutations. Researchers at MIT trained a language model to predict mutations that would enable infectious viruses to become even more virulent.

January 27, 20212 min read
The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.
MIT

The Language of Viruses: Researchers trained a neural net to predict viruses in DNA.

A neural network learned to read the genes of viruses as though they were text. That could enable researchers to page ahead for potentially dangerous mutations. Researchers at MIT trained a language model to predict mutations that would enable infectious viruses to become even more virulent.

January 27, 20212 min read
Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI
MIT

Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI

Machine learning is helping to design energy cells that charge faster and last longer. Battery developers are using ML algorithms to devise new chemicals, components, and charging techniques faster than traditional techniques allow.

October 21, 20201 min read
Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI
MIT

Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI

Machine learning is helping to design energy cells that charge faster and last longer. Battery developers are using ML algorithms to devise new chemicals, components, and charging techniques faster than traditional techniques allow.

October 21, 20201 min read
What One Neuron Knows: How convolutional neural network layers recognize objects.
MIT

What One Neuron Knows: How convolutional neural network layers recognize objects.

How does a convolutional neural network recognize a photo of a ski resort? New research shows that it bases its classification on specific neurons that recognize snow, mountains, trees, and houses.

October 21, 20203 min read
What One Neuron Knows: How convolutional neural network layers recognize objects.
MIT

What One Neuron Knows: How convolutional neural network layers recognize objects.

How does a convolutional neural network recognize a photo of a ski resort? New research shows that it bases its classification on specific neurons that recognize snow, mountains, trees, and houses.

October 21, 20203 min read
The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes
MIT

The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes

Deepfakes have gone mainstream, allowing celebrities to star in commercials without setting foot in a film studio. A new method helps determine whether such endorsements — and other images produced by generative adversarial networks — are authentic.

September 30, 20202 min read
The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes
MIT

The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes

Deepfakes have gone mainstream, allowing celebrities to star in commercials without setting foot in a film studio. A new method helps determine whether such endorsements — and other images produced by generative adversarial networks — are authentic.

September 30, 20202 min read

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