Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.
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Facing Failure to Generalize: Why some AI models exhibit underspecification.

The same models trained on the same data may show the same performance in the lab, and yet respond very differently to data they haven’t seen before. New work finds this inconsistency to be pervasive.

February 17, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
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How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.
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Shortcut to Cancer Treatment: AI suggests breast cancer therapies based on tumor-tissue slides.

Doctors who treat breast cancer typically use a quick, inexpensive tumor-tissue stain test to diagnose the illness and a slower, more costly one to determine treatment. A new neural network could help doctors to go straight from diagnosis to treatment.

February 10, 20212 min read
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Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
ResNet

Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
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A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
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A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.

With access to a trained model, an attacker can use a reconstruction attack to approximate its training data. A method called InstaHide recently won acclaim for promising to make such examples unrecognizable to human eyes while retaining their utility for training.

February 3, 20212 min read
Striding Toward the Minimum: A faster way to optimize the loss function for deep learning.
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Striding Toward the Minimum: A faster way to optimize the loss function for deep learning.

When you’re training a deep learning model, it can take days for an optimization algorithm to minimize the loss function. A new approach could save time.

January 13, 20212 min read
Striding Toward the Minimum: A faster way to optimize the loss function for deep learning.
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Striding Toward the Minimum: A faster way to optimize the loss function for deep learning.

When you’re training a deep learning model, it can take days for an optimization algorithm to minimize the loss function. A new approach could save time.

January 13, 20212 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
ResNet

Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
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Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
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Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read
Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.
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Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.

The incessant rhythm of a heartbeat could be the key to distinguishing real videos from deepfakes. DeepRhythm detects deepfakes using an approach inspired by the science of measuring minute changes on the skin’s surface due to blood circulation.

November 4, 20201 min read

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