Robot, Find My Keys: A machine learning model for robots to predict the location of objects in households
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Robot, Find My Keys: A machine learning model for robots to predict the location of objects in households

Researchers proposed a way for robots to find objects in households where things get moved around. Andrey Kurenkov and colleagues at Stanford University introduced Node Edge Predictor, a model that learned to predict where objects were located in houses.

December 6, 20233 min read
Seeing Darker-Skinned Pedestrians: Children and people with darker skin face higher street risks with object detectors, research finds.
Machine Learning Research

Seeing Darker-Skinned Pedestrians: Children and people with darker skin face higher street risks with object detectors, research finds.

In a study, models used to detect people walking on streets and sidewalks performed less well on adults with darker skin and children of all skin tones.

December 6, 20232 min read
Seeing Darker-Skinned Pedestrians: Children and people with darker skin face higher street risks with object detectors, research finds.
Machine Learning Research

Seeing Darker-Skinned Pedestrians: Children and people with darker skin face higher street risks with object detectors, research finds.

In a study, models used to detect people walking on streets and sidewalks performed less well on adults with darker skin and children of all skin tones.

December 6, 20232 min read
This Language Model Speaks Robot: PaLM-E, the model that improves robot control with large language model expertise
Machine Learning Research

This Language Model Speaks Robot: PaLM-E, the model that improves robot control with large language model expertise

A pretrained large language model has helped a robot resolve high-level commands into sequences of subtasks. It can do this more precisely with additional training — both on language-vision tasks and robotics tasks. 

November 29, 20233 min read
This Language Model Speaks Robot: PaLM-E, the model that improves robot control with large language model expertise
Machine Learning Research

This Language Model Speaks Robot: PaLM-E, the model that improves robot control with large language model expertise

A pretrained large language model has helped a robot resolve high-level commands into sequences of subtasks. It can do this more precisely with additional training — both on language-vision tasks and robotics tasks. 

November 29, 20233 min read
Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.
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Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.

The transformer architecture is astonishingly powerful but notoriously slow. Researchers have developed numerous tweaks to accelerate it — enough to warrant a look at how these alternatives work, their strengths, and their weaknesses.

November 22, 20233 min read
Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.
Machine Learning Research

Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.

The transformer architecture is astonishingly powerful but notoriously slow. Researchers have developed numerous tweaks to accelerate it — enough to warrant a look at how these alternatives work, their strengths, and their weaknesses.

November 22, 20233 min read
AI Builds Better Sorting Algorithms: AlphaDev, a new system for high-speed sorting of lists and numbers
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AI Builds Better Sorting Algorithms: AlphaDev, a new system for high-speed sorting of lists and numbers

Online sorting algorithms run trillions of times a day to organize lists according to users’ interests. New work found faster alternatives. Daniel J. Mankowitz and colleagues at Google developed AlphaDev, a system that learned to generate algorithms that sort three...

November 15, 20233 min read
AI Builds Better Sorting Algorithms: AlphaDev, a new system for high-speed sorting of lists and numbers
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AI Builds Better Sorting Algorithms: AlphaDev, a new system for high-speed sorting of lists and numbers

Online sorting algorithms run trillions of times a day to organize lists according to users’ interests. New work found faster alternatives. Daniel J. Mankowitz and colleagues at Google developed AlphaDev, a system that learned to generate algorithms that sort three...

November 15, 20233 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion
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Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion

Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...

November 8, 20232 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion
Machine Learning Research

Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion

Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...

November 8, 20232 min read
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
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The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.

Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...

November 8, 20232 min read
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
Machine Learning Research

The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.

Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...

November 8, 20232 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
Machine Learning Research

Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.

Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.

November 1, 20233 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
Machine Learning Research

Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.

Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.

November 1, 20233 min read

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