Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
UC Berkeley

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
UC Berkeley

Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
A Privacy Threat Revealed: How researchers cracked InstaHide for computer vision.
UC Berkeley

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.
UC Berkeley

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
Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations
UC Berkeley

Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations

Computer simulations do a good job of modeling physical systems from traffic patterns to rocket engines, but they can take a long time to run. New work takes advantage of deep learning to speed them up.

December 16, 20202 min read
Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations
UC Berkeley

Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations

Computer simulations do a good job of modeling physical systems from traffic patterns to rocket engines, but they can take a long time to run. New work takes advantage of deep learning to speed them up.

December 16, 20202 min read
Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly
UC Berkeley

Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly

A typical GAN’s output doesn’t necessarily reflect the data distribution of its training set. Instead, GANs are prone to modeling the majority of the training distribution, sometimes ignoring rare attributes — say, faces that represent minority populations.

September 30, 20202 min read
Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly
UC Berkeley

Making GANs More Inclusive: A technique to help GANs represent their datasets fairly

A typical GAN’s output doesn’t necessarily reflect the data distribution of its training set. Instead, GANs are prone to modeling the majority of the training distribution, sometimes ignoring rare attributes — say, faces that represent minority populations.

September 30, 20202 min read
Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes
UC Berkeley

Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes

People who take driving lessons during daytime don’t need instruction in driving at night. They recognize that the difference doesn’t disturb their knowledge of how to drive. Similarly, a new reinforcement learning method manages superficial variations in the environment without re-training.

August 19, 20202 min read
Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes
UC Berkeley

Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes

People who take driving lessons during daytime don’t need instruction in driving at night. They recognize that the difference doesn’t disturb their knowledge of how to drive. Similarly, a new reinforcement learning method manages superficial variations in the environment without re-training.

August 19, 20202 min read
Visual Strategies for RL: Plan2Vec helps reinforcement learning with complex tasks.
UC Berkeley

Visual Strategies for RL: Plan2Vec helps reinforcement learning with complex tasks.

Reinforcement learning can beat humans at video games, but humans are better at coming up with strategies to master more complex tasks. New work enables neural networks to connect the dots.

June 10, 20202 min read
Visual Strategies for RL: Plan2Vec helps reinforcement learning with complex tasks.
UC Berkeley

Visual Strategies for RL: Plan2Vec helps reinforcement learning with complex tasks.

Reinforcement learning can beat humans at video games, but humans are better at coming up with strategies to master more complex tasks. New work enables neural networks to connect the dots.

June 10, 20202 min read
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
UC Berkeley

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
Fake Detector: Using a discriminator network to spot deepfakes
UC Berkeley

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
Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.
UC Berkeley

Transformers Transformed: Research improves transformer efficiency with Reformer.

Transformer networks have revolutionized natural language processing, but they hog processor cycles and memory. New research demonstrates a more frugal variation.

March 4, 20202 min read

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