Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.
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Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.

Neural networks revealed both how hard Covid-19 has hit the Chinese economy, and hopeful signs that a renaissance may be underway. Researchers analyzed satellite imagery, GPS signals, and social media to get a multifaceted view of the pandemic’s impact.

March 25, 20202 min read
Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.
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Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.

Neural networks revealed both how hard Covid-19 has hit the Chinese economy, and hopeful signs that a renaissance may be underway. Researchers analyzed satellite imagery, GPS signals, and social media to get a multifaceted view of the pandemic’s impact.

March 25, 20202 min read
Rightsizing Neural Nets: An equation for predicting optimal data and model size
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Rightsizing Neural Nets: An equation for predicting optimal data and model size

How much data do we want? More! How large should the model be? Bigger! How much more and how much bigger? New research estimates the impact of dataset and model sizes on neural network performance.

March 25, 20202 min read
X Marks the Dataset: Radioacive data helps trace a model's training corpus.
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X Marks the Dataset: Radioacive data helps trace a model's training corpus.

Which dataset was used to train a given model? A new method makes it possible to see traces of the training corpus in a model’s output.

March 18, 20202 min read
Self-Supervised Simplicity: Image classification with simple contrastive learning (SimCLR)
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Self-Supervised Simplicity: Image classification with simple contrastive learning (SimCLR)

A simple linear classifier paired with a self-supervised feature extractor outperformed a supervised deep learning model on ImageNet, according to new research.

March 18, 20202 min read
AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.
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AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.

Machine learning thrives on data, but information about the novel coronavirus and the illness it produces has been either thin or hard to access. Now researchers are pooling resources to share everything we do know.

March 18, 20202 min read
The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.
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The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.

Machine learning promises to streamline handling of tomorrow’s bureaucratic drudgery — and, it turns out, that of 2,500 years ago. Computer vision is helping researchers at the University of Chicago translate a massive collection of ancient records inscribed on clay tablets.

March 18, 20201 min read
AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.
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AI Takes on Coronavirus: CORD-19 is a free dataset of 30,000 coronavirus articles.

Machine learning thrives on data, but information about the novel coronavirus and the illness it produces has been either thin or hard to access. Now researchers are pooling resources to share everything we do know.

March 18, 20202 min read
The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.
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The King’s Moleskine: AI tool helps archaeologists translate clay tablets.

Machine learning promises to streamline handling of tomorrow’s bureaucratic drudgery — and, it turns out, that of 2,500 years ago. Computer vision is helping researchers at the University of Chicago translate a massive collection of ancient records inscribed on clay tablets.

March 18, 20201 min read
Self-Supervised Simplicity: Image classification with simple contrastive learning (SimCLR)
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Self-Supervised Simplicity: Image classification with simple contrastive learning (SimCLR)

A simple linear classifier paired with a self-supervised feature extractor outperformed a supervised deep learning model on ImageNet, according to new research.

March 18, 20202 min read
X Marks the Dataset: Radioacive data helps trace a model's training corpus.
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X Marks the Dataset: Radioacive data helps trace a model's training corpus.

Which dataset was used to train a given model? A new method makes it possible to see traces of the training corpus in a model’s output.

March 18, 20202 min read
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
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Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques

In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.

March 11, 20202 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
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Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques
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Less Labels, More Learning: Improved small data performance with combined techniques

In small data settings where labels are scarce, semi-supervised learning can train models by using a small number of labeled examples and a larger set of unlabeled examples. A new method outperforms earlier techniques.

March 11, 20202 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
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Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read

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