Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations
Unsupervised Learning

Long-Haul Chatbot: Facebook Chatbot is Able to Carry on Long Conversations

Facebook released a chatbot that summarizes dialog on the fly and uses the summary to generate further repartee.

November 24, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Unsupervised Learning

Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
Unsupervised Learning

Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
Unsupervised Learning

Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers

The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces

October 13, 20211 min read
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
Unsupervised Learning

Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 20212 min read
Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data
Unsupervised Learning

Crawl the Web, Absorb the Bias: NLP Models Absorb Biases from Web Training Data

The emerging generation of trillion-parameter models needs datasets of billions of examples, but the most readily available source of examples on that scale — the web — is polluted with bias and antisocial expressions. A new study examines the issue.

October 13, 20212 min read
Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers
Unsupervised Learning

Transformer Speed-Up Sped Up: How to Speed Up Image Transformers

The transformer architecture is notoriously inefficient when processing long sequences — a problem in processing images, which are essentially long sequences of pixels. One way around this is to break up input images and process the pieces

October 13, 20211 min read
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
Unsupervised Learning

Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants

A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.

August 25, 20212 min read
Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants
Unsupervised Learning

Weak Foundations Make Weak Models: Foundation AI Models Pass Flaws to Fine-Tuned Variants

A new study examines a major strain of recent research: huge models pretrained on immense quantities of uncurated, unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a smaller, curated corpus.

August 25, 20212 min read
More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations
Unsupervised Learning

More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations

Pretraining methods generate basic representations for later fine-tuning, but they’re prone to certain issues that can throw them off-kilter. New work proposes a solution.

August 25, 20212 min read
More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations
Unsupervised Learning

More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations

Pretraining methods generate basic representations for later fine-tuning, but they’re prone to certain issues that can throw them off-kilter. New work proposes a solution.

August 25, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Unsupervised Learning

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Unsupervised Learning

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
Unsupervised Learning

Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.

It’s well established that pretraining a model on a large dataset improves performance on fine-tuned tasks. In sufficient quantity and paired with a big model, even data scraped from the internet at random can contribute to the performance boost.

April 7, 20212 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
Unsupervised Learning

Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.

It’s well established that pretraining a model on a large dataset improves performance on fine-tuned tasks. In sufficient quantity and paired with a big model, even data scraped from the internet at random can contribute to the performance boost.

April 7, 20212 min read

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