Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Unsupervised Learning

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

March 31, 20212 min read
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Unsupervised Learning

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

March 31, 20212 min read
Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.
Unsupervised Learning

Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.

Social biases are well documented in decisions made by supervised models trained on ImageNet’s labels. But they also crept into the output of unsupervised models pretrained on the same dataset.

November 18, 20202 min read
Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.
Unsupervised Learning

Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.

Social biases are well documented in decisions made by supervised models trained on ImageNet’s labels. But they also crept into the output of unsupervised models pretrained on the same dataset.

November 18, 20202 min read
Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels
Unsupervised Learning

Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels

Large models pretrained in an unsupervised fashion and then fine-tuned on a smaller corpus of labeled data have achieved spectacular results in natural language processing. New research pushes forward with a similar approach to computer vision.

September 9, 20202 min read
Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels
Unsupervised Learning

Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels

Large models pretrained in an unsupervised fashion and then fine-tuned on a smaller corpus of labeled data have achieved spectacular results in natural language processing. New research pushes forward with a similar approach to computer vision.

September 9, 20202 min read
Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.
Unsupervised Learning

Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.

Natural language processing lately has come to resemble an arms race, as the big AI companies build models that encompass ever larger numbers of parameters. Microsoft recently held the record — but not for long.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Unsupervised Learning

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Unsupervised Learning

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.
Unsupervised Learning

Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.

Natural language processing lately has come to resemble an arms race, as the big AI companies build models that encompass ever larger numbers of parameters. Microsoft recently held the record — but not for long.

June 17, 20202 min read
Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.
Unsupervised Learning

Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.

The ocean contains distinct ecosystems, but they’re much harder to see than terrestrial forests or savannas. A new model helps scientists better understand patterns of undersea life, which is threatened by pollution, invasive species, and warming temperatures.

June 10, 20201 min read
Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.
Unsupervised Learning

Underwater Atlas: Deep learning helps scientists map undersea ecosystems.

The ocean contains distinct ecosystems, but they’re much harder to see than terrestrial forests or savannas. A new model helps scientists better understand patterns of undersea life, which is threatened by pollution, invasive species, and warming temperatures.

June 10, 20201 min read
Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones
Unsupervised Learning

Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones

Deep learning promises to help emergency responders find their way through disaster zones. MIT researchers developed a tool that maps where hurricanes and other calamities have wiped out roads, helping to show aid workers the fastest ways to get to people in need.

April 29, 20201 min read
Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones
Unsupervised Learning

Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones

Deep learning promises to help emergency responders find their way through disaster zones. MIT researchers developed a tool that maps where hurricanes and other calamities have wiped out roads, helping to show aid workers the fastest ways to get to people in need.

April 29, 20201 min read
Better Than Backprop: Greedy InfoMax trains AI without end-to-end backpropagation.
Unsupervised Learning

Better Than Backprop: Greedy InfoMax trains AI without end-to-end backpropagation.

End-to-end backpropagation and labeled data are the peanut butter and chocolate of deep learning. However, recent work suggests that neither is necessary to train effective neural networks to represent complex data.

January 22, 20202 min read

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