This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Machine Learning Research

This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers

Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?

November 17, 20211 min read
This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers
Machine Learning Research

This Chatbot Does Its Research: Facebook Chatbot Uses the Internet to Inform its Answers

Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?

November 17, 20211 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Machine Learning Research

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
Machine Learning Research

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
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
Machine Learning Research

Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video
Machine Learning Research

Richer Video Representations: Pretraining Method Improves AI's Ability to Understand Video

To understand a movie scene, viewers often must remember or infer previous events and extrapolate potential consequences. New work improved a model’s ability to do the same.

November 3, 20212 min read
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
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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
Machine Learning Research

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
Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
Machine Learning Research

Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers

The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces

October 13, 20211 min read
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
Machine Learning Research

Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 20212 min read
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
Machine Learning Research

Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 20212 min read
Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
Machine Learning Research

Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers

The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces

October 13, 20211 min read
Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data
Machine Learning Research

Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data

Models trained using supervised learning struggle to classify inputs that differ substantially from most of their training data. A new method helps them recognize such outliers.

October 6, 20212 min read
Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data
Machine Learning Research

Oddball Recognition: New Method Identifies Outliers in AI Training Data

Models trained using supervised learning struggle to classify inputs that differ substantially from most of their training data. A new method helps them recognize such outliers.

October 6, 20212 min read
More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems
Machine Learning Research

More Thinking Solves Harder Problems: AI Can Learn From Simple Tasks to Solve Hard Problems

In machine learning, an easy task and a more difficult version of the same task — say, a maze that covers a smaller or larger area — often are learned separately.

September 29, 20212 min read

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