Beyond the Bounding Box: RPDet and RepPoints for object detection, explained
Machine Learning Research

Beyond the Bounding Box: RPDet and RepPoints for object detection, explained

Computer vision models typically draw bounding boxes around objects they spot, but those rectangles are a crude approximation of an object’s outline. A new method finds keypoints on an object’s perimeter to produce state-of-the-art object classification.

November 20, 20192 min read
Beyond the Bounding Box: RPDet and RepPoints for object detection, explained
Machine Learning Research

Beyond the Bounding Box: RPDet and RepPoints for object detection, explained

Computer vision models typically draw bounding boxes around objects they spot, but those rectangles are a crude approximation of an object’s outline. A new method finds keypoints on an object’s perimeter to produce state-of-the-art object classification.

November 20, 20192 min read
Nose Job: AI predicts smell by analyzing a molecule's structure.
Machine Learning Research

Nose Job: AI predicts smell by analyzing a molecule's structure.

Predicting a molecule’s aroma is hard because slight changes in structure lead to huge shifts in perception. Good thing deep learning is developing a sense of smell.

November 20, 20192 min read
Finer Tuning
Machine Learning Research

Finer Tuning

A word-embedding model typically learns vector representations from a large, general-purpose corpus like Google News. But to make the resulting vectors useful in a specialized domain, they must be fine-tuned on a smaller, domain-specific dataset. Researchers offer a more accurate method.

November 13, 20192 min read
Convolution Revolution
Machine Learning Research

Convolution Revolution

Looking at images, people see outlines before the details within them. A replacement for the traditional convolutional layer decomposes images based on this distinction between coarse and fine features.

November 13, 20192 min read
Finer Tuning
Machine Learning Research

Finer Tuning

A word-embedding model typically learns vector representations from a large, general-purpose corpus like Google News. But to make the resulting vectors useful in a specialized domain, they must be fine-tuned on a smaller, domain-specific dataset. Researchers offer a more accurate method.

November 13, 20192 min read
Convolution Revolution
Machine Learning Research

Convolution Revolution

Looking at images, people see outlines before the details within them. A replacement for the traditional convolutional layer decomposes images based on this distinction between coarse and fine features.

November 13, 20192 min read
Unfinished Artwork? No More
Machine Learning Research

Unfinished Artwork? No More

Generative networks can embroider sentences into stories and melodies into full-fledged arrangements. A new model does something similar with drawings.

November 6, 20192 min read
Robotic Control, Easy as Apple Pie
Machine Learning Research

Robotic Control, Easy as Apple Pie

Robots designed to assist people with disabilities have become more capable, but they’ve also become harder to control. New research offers a way to operate such complex mechanical systems more intuitively.

November 6, 20192 min read
Robotic Control, Easy as Apple Pie
Machine Learning Research

Robotic Control, Easy as Apple Pie

Robots designed to assist people with disabilities have become more capable, but they’ve also become harder to control. New research offers a way to operate such complex mechanical systems more intuitively.

November 6, 20192 min read
Unfinished Artwork? No More
Machine Learning Research

Unfinished Artwork? No More

Generative networks can embroider sentences into stories and melodies into full-fledged arrangements. A new model does something similar with drawings.

November 6, 20192 min read
Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes
Machine Learning Research

Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes

Weak supervision is the practice of assigning likely labels to unlabeled data using a variety of simple labeling functions. Then supervised methods can be used on top of the now-labeled data.

October 23, 20192 min read
How Neural Networks Generalize
Machine Learning Research

How Neural Networks Generalize

Humans understand the world by abstraction: If you grasp the concept of grabbing a stick, then you’ll also comprehend grabbing a ball. New work explores deep learning agents’ ability to do the same thing — an important aspect of their ability to generalize.

October 23, 20192 min read
How Neural Networks Generalize
Machine Learning Research

How Neural Networks Generalize

Humans understand the world by abstraction: If you grasp the concept of grabbing a stick, then you’ll also comprehend grabbing a ball. New work explores deep learning agents’ ability to do the same thing — an important aspect of their ability to generalize.

October 23, 20192 min read
Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes
Machine Learning Research

Cracking Open Doctors’ Notes

Weak supervision is the practice of assigning likely labels to unlabeled data using a variety of simple labeling functions. Then supervised methods can be used on top of the now-labeled data.

October 23, 20192 min read

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