From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities
Machine Learning Research

From Sequences to Symbols: Transformers Extend AI's Mathematical Capabilities

Given a sequence of numbers, neural networks have proven adept at discovering a mathematical expression that generates it. New work uses transformers to extend that success to a further class of expressions.

April 13, 20222 min read
Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data
Machine Learning Research

Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data

When a model trains too much, it can overfit, or memorize, the training data, which reduces its ability to analyze similar-but-different inputs. But what if training continues? New work found that overfitting isn’t the end of the line.

April 6, 20222 min read
Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data
Machine Learning Research

Learning After Overfitting: Transformers Continue Learning After Overfitting Data

When a model trains too much, it can overfit, or memorize, the training data, which reduces its ability to analyze similar-but-different inputs. But what if training continues? New work found that overfitting isn’t the end of the line.

April 6, 20222 min read
Stock-Trading Test Bed: AI system simulates stock market performance.
Machine Learning Research

Stock-Trading Test Bed: AI system simulates stock market performance.

If you buy or sell stocks, it’s handy to test your strategy before you put real money at risk. Researchers devised a fresh approach to simulating market behavior.

March 23, 20223 min read
Stock-Trading Test Bed: AI system simulates stock market performance.
Machine Learning Research

Stock-Trading Test Bed: AI system simulates stock market performance.

If you buy or sell stocks, it’s handy to test your strategy before you put real money at risk. Researchers devised a fresh approach to simulating market behavior.

March 23, 20223 min read
Who Needs Training? Graph neural network selects optimal weights for image tasks.
Machine Learning Research

Who Needs Training? Graph neural network selects optimal weights for image tasks.

When you’re training a neural network, it takes a lot of computation to optimize its weights using an iterative algorithm like stochastic gradient descent. Wouldn’t it be great to compute the best parameter values in one pass? A new method takes a substantial step in that direction.

March 16, 20223 min read
Who Needs Training? Graph neural network selects optimal weights for image tasks.
Machine Learning Research

Who Needs Training? Graph neural network selects optimal weights for image tasks.

When you’re training a neural network, it takes a lot of computation to optimize its weights using an iterative algorithm like stochastic gradient descent. Wouldn’t it be great to compute the best parameter values in one pass? A new method takes a substantial step in that direction.

March 16, 20223 min read
Coordinating Robot Limbs: Machine learning improves robot dog reaction time.
Machine Learning Research

Coordinating Robot Limbs: Machine learning improves robot dog reaction time.

A dog doesn’t think twice about fetching a tennis ball, but an autonomous robot typically suffers from delays between perception and action. A new machine-learning model helped a quadruped robot coordinate its sensors and actuators.

March 9, 20222 min read
Coordinating Robot Limbs: Machine learning improves robot dog reaction time.
Machine Learning Research

Coordinating Robot Limbs: Machine learning improves robot dog reaction time.

A dog doesn’t think twice about fetching a tennis ball, but an autonomous robot typically suffers from delays between perception and action. A new machine-learning model helped a quadruped robot coordinate its sensors and actuators.

March 9, 20222 min read
Weather Forecast by GAN: GAN improves short-term rainfall predictions.
Machine Learning Research

Weather Forecast by GAN: GAN improves short-term rainfall predictions.

A new deep learning technique increased the precision of short-term rainfall forecasts. Researchers developed the Deep Generative Model of Radar (DGMR) to predict amounts of precipitation up to two hours in advance.

March 2, 20222 min read
Weather Forecast by GAN: GAN improves short-term rainfall predictions.
Machine Learning Research

Weather Forecast by GAN: GAN improves short-term rainfall predictions.

A new deep learning technique increased the precision of short-term rainfall forecasts. Researchers developed the Deep Generative Model of Radar (DGMR) to predict amounts of precipitation up to two hours in advance.

March 2, 20222 min read
Fine-Tune Your Fine-Tuning: New method optimizes training for few shot NLP models.
Machine Learning Research

Fine-Tune Your Fine-Tuning: New method optimizes training for few shot NLP models.

Let’s say you have a pretrained language model and a small amount of data to fine-tune it to answer yes-or-no questions. Should you fine-tune it to classify yes/no or to fill in missing words — both viable approaches that are likely to yield different results?

February 23, 20223 min read
Fine-Tune Your Fine-Tuning: New method optimizes training for few shot NLP models.
Machine Learning Research

Fine-Tune Your Fine-Tuning: New method optimizes training for few shot NLP models.

Let’s say you have a pretrained language model and a small amount of data to fine-tune it to answer yes-or-no questions. Should you fine-tune it to classify yes/no or to fill in missing words — both viable approaches that are likely to yield different results?

February 23, 20223 min read
To Flow or Not to Flow: Building more efficient networked machine learning.
Machine Learning Research

To Flow or Not to Flow: Building more efficient networked machine learning.

Networked software is often built using a service-oriented architecture, but networked machine learning applications may be easier to manage using a different programming style.

February 16, 20222 min read
To Flow or Not to Flow: Building more efficient networked machine learning.
Machine Learning Research

To Flow or Not to Flow: Building more efficient networked machine learning.

Networked software is often built using a service-oriented architecture, but networked machine learning applications may be easier to manage using a different programming style.

February 16, 20222 min read

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