Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
Machine Learning Research

Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers

ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.

August 31, 20222 min read
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
Machine Learning Research

Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers

ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.

August 31, 20222 min read
What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties
Machine Learning Research

What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties

The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.

August 24, 20222 min read
Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes
Machine Learning Research

Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes

When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.

August 24, 20222 min read
What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties
Machine Learning Research

What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties

The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.

August 24, 20222 min read
Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes
Machine Learning Research

Taming Spurious Correlations: New Technique Helps AI Avoid Classification Mistakes

When a neural network learns image labels, it may confuse a background item for the labeled object. New research avoids such mistakes.

August 24, 20222 min read
Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles
Machine Learning Research

Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.

August 17, 20222 min read
Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles
Machine Learning Research

Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.

August 17, 20222 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Machine Learning Research

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Machine Learning Research

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read
Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models
Machine Learning Research

Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models

A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.

August 3, 20222 min read
Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models
Machine Learning Research

Choose the Right Annotators: Jury-Learning Helps Remove Bias from NLP Models

A new machine learning method attempts to account for biases that may be held by certain subsets of labelers.

August 3, 20222 min read
Learning From Metadata: Descriptive Text Improves Performance for AI Image Classification Systems
Machine Learning Research

Learning From Metadata: Descriptive Text Improves Performance for AI Image Classification Systems

Images in the wild may not come with labels, but they often include metadata. A new training method takes advantage of this information to improve contrastive learning.

July 29, 20222 min read
Learning From Metadata: Descriptive Text Improves Performance for AI Image Classification Systems
Machine Learning Research

Learning From Metadata: Descriptive Text Improves Performance for AI Image Classification Systems

Images in the wild may not come with labels, but they often include metadata. A new training method takes advantage of this information to improve contrastive learning.

July 29, 20222 min read
Humanized Training for Robot Arms: New Research Improves Robot Performance and Adaptability
Machine Learning Research

Humanized Training for Robot Arms: New Research Improves Robot Performance and Adaptability

Robots trained via reinforcement learning usually study videos of robots performing the task at hand. A new approach used videos of humans to pre-train robotic arms.

July 29, 20222 min read

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