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Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.
ResNeXt

Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.

For children, associating a word with a picture that illustrates it helps them learn the word’s meaning. Research aims to do something similar for machine learning models. Researchers improved a BERT model’s performance on some language tasks by training it on a large dataset of image-word pairs.

February 10, 20212 min read
Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.
ResNeXt

Better Language Through Vision: Study improved Bert performance using visual tokens.

For children, associating a word with a picture that illustrates it helps them learn the word’s meaning. Research aims to do something similar for machine learning models. Researchers improved a BERT model’s performance on some language tasks by training it on a large dataset of image-word pairs.

February 10, 20212 min read
Every Picture Tells a Story: Facebook expands automated alternative text.
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Facebook expands automated alternative text.

Facebook expanded a system of vision, language, and speech models designed to open the social network to users who are visually impaired. A Facebook service that describes photos in a synthesized voice now recognizes 1,200 visual concepts — 10 times more than the previous version.

January 27, 20212 min read
Every Picture Tells a Story: Facebook expands automated alternative text.
ResNeXt

Every Picture Tells a Story: Facebook expands automated alternative text.

Facebook expanded a system of vision, language, and speech models designed to open the social network to users who are visually impaired. A Facebook service that describes photos in a synthesized voice now recognizes 1,200 visual concepts — 10 times more than the previous version.

January 27, 20212 min read

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