Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
Reinforcement Learning

Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world

Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.

December 29, 20213 min read
Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world
Reinforcement Learning

Wolfram Burgard: Train robots in the real world

Robots are tremendously useful machines, and I would like to see them applied to every task where they can do some good. Yet we don’t have enough programmers for all this hardware and all these tasks.

December 29, 20213 min read
Reinforcement Learning Transformed: Transformers succeed at reinforcemend learning tasks.
Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning Transformed: Transformers succeed at reinforcemend learning tasks.

Transformers have matched or exceeded earlier architectures in language modeling and image classification. New work shows they can achieve state-of-the-art results in some reinforcement learning tasks as well.

December 8, 20213 min read
Reinforcement Learning Transformed: Transformers succeed at reinforcemend learning tasks.
Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning Transformed: Transformers succeed at reinforcemend learning tasks.

Transformers have matched or exceeded earlier architectures in language modeling and image classification. New work shows they can achieve state-of-the-art results in some reinforcement learning tasks as well.

December 8, 20213 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Reinforcement Learning

Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Reinforcement Learning

Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
Reinforcement Learning

Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
Reinforcement Learning

Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Who Needs a Covid Test? AI Decides: Greek Border Patrol Used AI to Screen for Covid
Reinforcement Learning

Who Needs a Covid Test? AI Decides: Greek Border Patrol Used AI to Screen for Covid

Greece’s border agents last year had enough Covid tests to swab only 17 percent of people who sought to enter the country. They managed the shortage by using an AI system to flag high-risk visitors.

September 29, 20212 min read
Who Needs a Covid Test? AI Decides: Greek Border Patrol Used AI to Screen for Covid
Reinforcement Learning

Who Needs a Covid Test? AI Decides: Greek Border Patrol Used AI to Screen for Covid

Greece’s border agents last year had enough Covid tests to swab only 17 percent of people who sought to enter the country. They managed the shortage by using an AI system to flag high-risk visitors.

September 29, 20212 min read
Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
Reinforcement Learning

Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills

Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).

September 15, 20212 min read
Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
Reinforcement Learning

Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills

Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).

September 15, 20212 min read
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
Reinforcement Learning

Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants

A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.

August 25, 20212 min read
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
Reinforcement Learning

Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants

A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.

August 25, 20212 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
Reinforcement Learning

Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read

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