High Accuracy, Low Compute
Machine Learning Research

High Accuracy, Low Compute

As neural networks have become more accurate, they’ve also ballooned in size and computational cost. That makes many state-of-the-art models impractical to run on phones and potentially smaller, less powerful devices.

October 16, 20192 min read
Two Steps to Better Summaries
Machine Learning Research

Two Steps to Better Summaries

Summarizing a document using original words is a longstanding problem for natural language processing. Researchers recently took a step toward human-level performance in this task, known as abstractive summarization, as opposed to extractive summarization.

October 16, 20191 min read
Two Steps to Better Summaries
Machine Learning Research

Two Steps to Better Summaries

Summarizing a document using original words is a longstanding problem for natural language processing. Researchers recently took a step toward human-level performance in this task, known as abstractive summarization, as opposed to extractive summarization.

October 16, 20191 min read
High Accuracy, Low Compute
Machine Learning Research

High Accuracy, Low Compute

As neural networks have become more accurate, they’ve also ballooned in size and computational cost. That makes many state-of-the-art models impractical to run on phones and potentially smaller, less powerful devices.

October 16, 20192 min read
Hidden Findings Revealed
Machine Learning Research

Hidden Findings Revealed

Drugs undergo rigorous experimentation and clinical trials to gain regulatory approval, while dietary supplements get less scrutiny. Even when a drug study reveals an interaction with supplements, the discovery tends to receive little attention.

October 9, 20192 min read
Hidden Findings Revealed
Machine Learning Research

Hidden Findings Revealed

Drugs undergo rigorous experimentation and clinical trials to gain regulatory approval, while dietary supplements get less scrutiny. Even when a drug study reveals an interaction with supplements, the discovery tends to receive little attention.

October 9, 20192 min read
Anonymous Faces
Machine Learning Research

Anonymous Faces

A number of countries restrict commercial use of personal data without consent unless they’re fully anonymized. A new paper proposes a way to anonymize images of faces, purportedly without degrading their usefulness in applications that rely on face recognition.

October 2, 20192 min read
Putting Text Generators on a Leash
Machine Learning Research

Putting Text Generators on a Leash

Despite dramatic recent progress, natural language generation remains an iffy proposition. Even users of the muscular GPT-2 text generator have to press the button a number of times to get sensible output. But researchers are figuring out how to exert greater control over generated text.

October 2, 20192 min read
Putting Text Generators on a Leash
Machine Learning Research

Putting Text Generators on a Leash

Despite dramatic recent progress, natural language generation remains an iffy proposition. Even users of the muscular GPT-2 text generator have to press the button a number of times to get sensible output. But researchers are figuring out how to exert greater control over generated text.

October 2, 20192 min read
Anonymous Faces
Machine Learning Research

Anonymous Faces

A number of countries restrict commercial use of personal data without consent unless they’re fully anonymized. A new paper proposes a way to anonymize images of faces, purportedly without degrading their usefulness in applications that rely on face recognition.

October 2, 20192 min read
The Long and Short of It
Machine Learning Research

The Long and Short of It

Not long ago, text-to-speech systems could read only a sentence at a time, and they were ranked according to their ability to accomplish that limited task. Now that they can orate entire books, we need new benchmarks.

September 25, 20191 min read
AI Knows Who Labeled the Data
Machine Learning Research

AI Knows Who Labeled the Data

The latest language models are great at answering questions about a given text passage. However, these models are also powerful enough to recognize an individual writer’s style, which can clue them in to the right answers. New research measures such annotator bias in several data sets.

September 25, 20192 min read
The Long and Short of It
Machine Learning Research

The Long and Short of It

Not long ago, text-to-speech systems could read only a sentence at a time, and they were ranked according to their ability to accomplish that limited task. Now that they can orate entire books, we need new benchmarks.

September 25, 20191 min read
AI Knows Who Labeled the Data
Machine Learning Research

AI Knows Who Labeled the Data

The latest language models are great at answering questions about a given text passage. However, these models are also powerful enough to recognize an individual writer’s style, which can clue them in to the right answers. New research measures such annotator bias in several data sets.

September 25, 20192 min read
Working Through Uncertainty
Machine Learning Research

Working Through Uncertainty

How to build robots that respond to novel situations? When prior experience is limited, enabling a model to describe its uncertainty can enable it to explore more avenues to success.

September 18, 20192 min read

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