Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays
Machine Learning Research

Human-Level X-Ray Diagnosis: A research summary of CheXbert for labeling chest x-rays

Like nurses who can’t decipher a doctor’s handwriting, machine learning models can’t decipher medical scans — without labels. Conveniently, natural language models can read medical records to extract labels for X-ray images.

May 20, 20202 min read
Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.
Machine Learning Research

Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.

Human teachers can teach more effectively by adjusting their methods in response to student feedback. It turns out that teacher networks can do the same.

May 13, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
Machine Learning Research

Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.
Machine Learning Research

Flexible Teachers, Smarter Students: Meta Pseudo Labels improves knowledge distillation.

Human teachers can teach more effectively by adjusting their methods in response to student feedback. It turns out that teacher networks can do the same.

May 13, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
Machine Learning Research

Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.
Machine Learning Research

RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.

Which comes first, training a reinforcement learning model or extracting high-quality features? New work avoids this chicken-or-egg dilemma by doing both simultaneously.

May 6, 20201 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
Machine Learning Research

Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.
Machine Learning Research

RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.

Which comes first, training a reinforcement learning model or extracting high-quality features? New work avoids this chicken-or-egg dilemma by doing both simultaneously.

May 6, 20201 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
Machine Learning Research

Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes

AI’s ability to produce synthetic pictures that fool humans into believing they’re real has spurred a race to build neural networks that can tell the difference. Recent research achieved encouraging results.

May 6, 20202 min read
Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.
Machine Learning Research

Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.

Your body disturbs Wi-Fi signals as you move through them. New research takes advantage of the effect to recognize the presence of people. Yang Liu and colleagues at Syracuse University detected people in a room with a Wi-Fi router by analyzing the signal.

April 29, 20202 min read
Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.
Machine Learning Research

Room With a View: AI detects humans from Wi-Fi disturbances.

Your body disturbs Wi-Fi signals as you move through them. New research takes advantage of the effect to recognize the presence of people. Yang Liu and colleagues at Syracuse University detected people in a room with a Wi-Fi router by analyzing the signal.

April 29, 20202 min read
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
Machine Learning Research

Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.

Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.

April 29, 20202 min read
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
Machine Learning Research

Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.

Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.

April 29, 20202 min read
Moderating the ML Roller Coaster: A technique to avoid double descent in AI
Machine Learning Research

Moderating the ML Roller Coaster: A technique to avoid double descent in AI

Wait a minute — we added training data, and our model’s performance got worse?! New research offers a way to avoid so-called double descent.

April 22, 20202 min read
Preserving Detail in Image Inputs: Better image compression for computer vision datasets
Machine Learning Research

Preserving Detail in Image Inputs: Better image compression for computer vision datasets

Given real-world constraints on memory and processing time, images are often downsampled before they’re fed into a neural network. But the process removes fine details, and that degrades accuracy. A new technique squeezes images with less compromise.

April 22, 20202 min read

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