Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Machine Learning Research

Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Machine Learning Research

Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
Machine Learning Research

Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.

Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.

August 7, 20212 min read
Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.
Machine Learning Research

Smaller Models, Bigger Biases: Compressed face recognition models have stronger bias.

Compression methods like parameter pruning and quantization can shrink neural networks for use in devices like smartphones with little impact on accuracy — but they also exacerbate a network’s bias.

August 7, 20212 min read
Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.
Machine Learning Research

Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.

The activation function known as ReLU builds complex nonlinear functions across layers of a neural network, making functions that outline flat faces and sharp edges. But how much of the world breaks down into perfect polyhedra?

August 5, 20212 min read
Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.
Machine Learning Research

Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.

The activation function known as ReLU builds complex nonlinear functions across layers of a neural network, making functions that outline flat faces and sharp edges. But how much of the world breaks down into perfect polyhedra?

August 5, 20212 min read
Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.
Machine Learning Research

Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.

Why use a complex model when a simple one will do? New work shows that the simplest multilayer neural network, with a small twist, can perform some tasks as well as today’s most sophisticated architectures.

August 4, 20212 min read
Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.
Machine Learning Research

Revenge of the Perceptrons: Perceptrons do some AI tasks on par with complex AI.

Why use a complex model when a simple one will do? New work shows that the simplest multilayer neural network, with a small twist, can perform some tasks as well as today’s most sophisticated architectures.

August 4, 20212 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
Machine Learning Research

Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.
Machine Learning Research

Transformers Are Smarter Than You Think: Language transformers can do math, vision, and logic.

The transformer architecture has shown an uncanny ability to model not only language but also images and proteins. New research found that it can apply what it learns from the first domain to the others.

July 28, 20212 min read
One Network, Many Scenes: Combining NeRF with VAE to generate 3D scenes
Machine Learning Research

One Network, Many Scenes: Combining NeRF with VAE to generate 3D scenes

To reconstruct the 3D world behind a set of 2D images, machine learning systems usually require a dedicated neural network for each scene. New research enables a single trained network to generate 3D reconstructions of multiple scenes.

July 21, 20212 min read
One Network, Many Scenes: Combining NeRF with VAE to generate 3D scenes
Machine Learning Research

One Network, Many Scenes: Combining NeRF with VAE to generate 3D scenes

To reconstruct the 3D world behind a set of 2D images, machine learning systems usually require a dedicated neural network for each scene. New research enables a single trained network to generate 3D reconstructions of multiple scenes.

July 21, 20212 min read
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
Machine Learning Research

I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.

Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.

July 14, 20212 min read
I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.
Machine Learning Research

I Know It When I See It: Zero-shot detection for objects not in training data.

Object detectors typically detect only items that were labeled in their training data. A new method liberates them to locate and recognize a much wider variety of objects.

July 14, 20212 min read
Walking the Dog: Training a robot to walk over unsteady terrain with RL.
Machine Learning Research

Walking the Dog: Training a robot to walk over unsteady terrain with RL.

A reinforcement learning system enabled a four-legged robot to amble over unfamiliar, rapidly changing terrain.

July 14, 20211 min read

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