AI Versus the Garbage Heap: How Amazon uses AI to cut waste.
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AI Versus the Garbage Heap: How Amazon uses AI to cut waste.

Amazon reported long-term success using machine learning to shrink its environmental footprint. The online retailer developed a system that fuses product descriptions, images, and structured data to decide how an item should be packed for shipping.

January 12, 20222 min read
A Deeper Look at Graphs: Graph Neural Networks Work Better With More Layers
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A Deeper Look at Graphs: Graph Neural Networks Work Better With More Layers

New research shows that drastically increasing the number of layers in a graph neural networks improves its performance on large datasets.

December 1, 20212 min read
A Deeper Look at Graphs: Graph Neural Networks Work Better With More Layers
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A Deeper Look at Graphs: Graph Neural Networks Work Better With More Layers

New research shows that drastically increasing the number of layers in a graph neural networks improves its performance on large datasets.

December 1, 20212 min read
Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
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Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug

Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.

December 1, 20212 min read
Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug
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Which Drug Helps Your Depression?: AI System Matches Patients With the Right Depression Drug

Deep learning can predict how patients will respond to two antidepressant medicines.

December 1, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
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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
Vanilla Neural Network

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
Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
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Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills

Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).

September 15, 20212 min read
Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
Vanilla Neural Network

Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills

Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).

September 15, 20212 min read
Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
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Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers

The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google

September 8, 20212 min read
Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers
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Perceptrons Are All You Need: Google Brain's Multi-Layer Perceptron Rivals Transformers

The paper that introduced the transformer famously declared, “Attention is all you need.” To the contrary, new work shows you may not need transformer-style attention at all.What’s new: Hanxiao Liu and colleagues at Google

September 8, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
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Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.
Vanilla Neural Network

Sharper Attention: NLP transformer technique for more Efficient token usage.

Self-attention enables transformer networks to track relationships between distant tokens — such as text characters — in long sequences, but the computational resources required grow quadratically with input size.

August 11, 20212 min read
Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.
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Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.

The activation function known as ReLU builds complex nonlinear functions across layers of a neural network, making functions that outline flat faces and sharp edges. But how much of the world breaks down into perfect polyhedra?

August 5, 20212 min read
Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.
Vanilla Neural Network

Upgrade for ReLU: The sin(x) activation function is an alternative to ReLU.

The activation function known as ReLU builds complex nonlinear functions across layers of a neural network, making functions that outline flat faces and sharp edges. But how much of the world breaks down into perfect polyhedra?

August 5, 20212 min read

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