Streamlined Robot Training: Robots trained in lo-fi simulation perform better in reality.
Machine Learning Research

Streamlined Robot Training: Robots trained in lo-fi simulation perform better in reality.

Autonomous robots trained to navigate in a simulation often struggle in the real world. New work helps bridge the gap in a counterintuitive way.

February 22, 20232 min read
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
Machine Learning Research

Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.

Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.

February 15, 20232 min read
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
Machine Learning Research

Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.

Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.

February 15, 20232 min read
He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.
Machine Learning Research

He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.

As AI-generated text and images capture the world’s attention, music is catching up. Andrea Agostinelli, Timo I. Denk, and colleagues at Google and Sorbonne Université introduced MusicLM, a system that generates music from text descriptions.

February 8, 20233 min read
He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.
Machine Learning Research

He Who Types the Prompt Calls the Tune: Google introduces an AI that generates music from text.

As AI-generated text and images capture the world’s attention, music is catching up. Andrea Agostinelli, Timo I. Denk, and colleagues at Google and Sorbonne Université introduced MusicLM, a system that generates music from text descriptions.

February 8, 20233 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
Machine Learning Research

Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.
Machine Learning Research

Language Models Defy Logic: Large NLP models struggle with logical reasoning.

Who would disagree that, if all people are mortal and Socrates is a person, Socrates must be mortal? GPT-3, for one. Recent work shows that bigger language models are not necessarily better when it comes to logical reasoning.

February 1, 20232 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
Machine Learning Research

Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
Machine Learning Research

Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Segmented Images, No Labeled Data: Improved unsupervised learning for semantic segmentation
Machine Learning Research

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

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
Precision-Guided Image Generation: Better text-to-image results with latent diffusion
Machine Learning Research

Precision-Guided Image Generation: Better text-to-image results with latent diffusion

Typical text-to-image generators can generate pictures of a cat, but not your cat. That’s because it’s hard to describe in a text prompt precisely all the things that distinguish your pet from other members of the same species.

January 4, 20232 min read
Precision-Guided Image Generation: Better text-to-image results with latent diffusion
Machine Learning Research

Precision-Guided Image Generation: Better text-to-image results with latent diffusion

Typical text-to-image generators can generate pictures of a cat, but not your cat. That’s because it’s hard to describe in a text prompt precisely all the things that distinguish your pet from other members of the same species.

January 4, 20232 min read
One Model Does It All: Multi-task AI models got more sophisticated in 2022.
Machine Learning Research

One Model Does It All: Multi-task AI models got more sophisticated in 2022.

Individual deep learning models proved their mettle in hundreds of tasks. The scope of multi-task models expanded dramatically in the past year.

December 21, 20222 min read
One Model Does It All: Multi-task AI models got more sophisticated in 2022.
Machine Learning Research

One Model Does It All: Multi-task AI models got more sophisticated in 2022.

Individual deep learning models proved their mettle in hundreds of tasks. The scope of multi-task models expanded dramatically in the past year.

December 21, 20222 min read

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