2019 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact
As part of our year-end series, Synced spotlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2019.
Year: 2019
2019 in Review: 10 Brilliant AI Apps
As 2019 comes to an end, Synced takes a look back at the year’s bumper crop of AI-powered products, spotlighting 10 new apps that we believe present brilliant ideas, innovative design and unique functionalities.
Tencent AI ‘Juewu’ Beats Top MOBA Gamers
In a recent paper Tencent AI Lab researchers present a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach to handle the complex action control of agents in MOBA 1v1 games.
Dr. Max Welling on Federated Learning and Bayesian Thinking
Dr. Welling shares his views on FL, the importance of distributed learning, and the Bayesian aspects of the domain.
2019 In Review: 10 Open-Sourced AI Datasets
In the conclusion to our year-end series, Synced spotlights ten datasets that were open-sourced in 2019.
Facebook PointRend: Rendering Image Segmentation
Facebook AI Research team has introduced a new “point-based rendering” neural network module with an iterative subdivision algorithm that can integrate SOTA image segmentation models.
2019 in Review: 10 Essential AI YouTube Channels
Synced has selected 10 AI-oriented YouTube channels we hope might provide our readers a cozy little holiday binge-watching session.
Deep Learning Pioneers Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio Elected as AAAI-20 Fellows
The AAAI has announced the election of ten AAAI 2020 Fellows — including AI pioneers and 2018 Turing Award Winners Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio.
CMU Senior Develops World’s First Classical Chinese Programming Language
Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Lingdong Huang has developed ‘Wenyan-Lang,’ a programming language based on Chinese hanzi characters and the wenyan classical Chinese grammar system.
2019 in AI | Year-End Recaps From Synced, Stanford, Reddit & More!
Synced Global AI Weekly December 22nd
Here’s To Drinking Safely With AI!
There is increasing attention on machine learning, deep learning, IoT and computer vision technologies in attempts to reduce the damage done by alcohol and improve the safety of drinkers.
ICLR 2020 Accepted Papers Announced
The ICLR 2020 conference programme chairs finally put the selection process behind them, announcing 687 out of 2594 papers had made it to ICLR 2020 — a 26.5 percent acceptance rate.
If Data is the New Oil, How to Determine Its Value?
A team of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, ETH, Zhejiang University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign set out to put a price on data in the context of machine learning in their 2019 research papers.
NeurIPS 2019｜Amii, Mila, and Vector Researchers Discuss AI in Canada and More
At the NeurIPS 2019 conference CIFAR introduced its new AI Chairs and a new grant program, and hosted the panel discussion Foundations in Machine Learning, where researchers from Mila, Amii and the Vector brainstormed on their work, looked at machine learning trends and offered advice to students.
12-in-1: Facebook AI’s New Framework Tackles Multiple Vision-and-Language Tasks
The model reduces the number of parameters from some 3 billion to 270 million while improving task performance by an average of 2.05 points.
2019 in Review: 10 AI Failures
Synced 10 AI Failures of 2019
Visual Dialogue State Tracking Improves Question Generation
Researchers from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication have introduced a novel visual dialogue state tracking (VDST) model that’s got pretty good at the similar, visual dialogue guessing game “GuessWhat?!”
PyTorch Deep Learning Framework: Speed + Usability
A new paper from original PyTorch developers explores the inspiration behind the library, and makes the case for its unique marriage of speed and usability.
NeurIPS 2019 Roundup: Outstanding Papers, Featured Talks, Facts and Figures
Synced Global AI Weekly December 15th
Attention Please! Remastering Vintage Films With Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba and Waseda University in Japan recently introduced a single framework designed to tackle an entire range of remastering tasks for films that have been converted to digital data.
Weekly Papers | Praising PyTorch; Improving Lip Reading; Generating Structured Text and More
Every Friday Synced selects seven recent studies that present topical, innovative or otherwise interesting or important research we believe may be of interest to our readers.
Challenge On! Tech Giants Unite to Fight Deepfakes With AI
At NeurIPS 2019 this week Facebook unveiled its Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC), along with a new deepfake-specific dataset containing more than 100,000 videos.
NeurIPS 2019 | The Numbers
The world’s most prestigious machine learning conference wraps up in Vancouver this weekend. Synced takes a look at the numbers associated with NeurIPS 2019.
KDD 2020 Opens Call for Research and Applied Data Science Paper Submissions
ACM SIGKDD Invites Industry and Academic Experts to Submit Advancements in Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning for 26th Annual Conference in San Diego
AI Reimagines Ancient Chinese Poetry
Due to the nuanced character choices and other unique literal and aesthetical characteristics, automatic generation of Chinese poetry is challenging for AI, and high-quality poems can hardly be generated by end-to-end methods.
Baidu’s Pre-training Model ERNIE Achieves New NLP Benchmark Record
ERNIE has achieved new state-of-the-art performance on GLUE and become the world’s first model to score over 90 in terms of the macro-average score (90.1).
Stanford, Kyoto & Georgia Tech Model ‘Neutralizes’ Biased Language
Pryzant and other Stanford researchers partnered with researchers from Kyoto University and Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a novel natural language model that can identify and neutralize biased framings, presuppositions, attitudes, etc. in text.
Japanese Unicorn Preferred Networks Migrates Its DL Platform to PyTorch
Preferred Networks is migrating its deep learning research platform from its own open source framework Chainer to PyTorch.
Playing Space Invaders Blind | RL & Cross Modality Transfer
Using cross-modality transfer techniques and reinforcement learning (RL), the researchers produced an agent that can play video games with only the game audio to guide it.
NeurIPS 2019 Opens; Outstanding Paper Awards and 2021 Conference Announced
In a blog post, the NeurIPS organizing committee announced the conference’s outstanding paper awards and other awards.
What to Expect at NeurIPS 2019; Google Founders Leave Alphabet; ML Maestro Michael I. Jordan Wins John von Neumann Medal
Synced Global AI Weekly December 8th
Vancouver SkyTrain Shutdown? Bad Timing for NeurIPS Attendees
The City of Vancouver is expecting a traffic spike next week with finals approaching and thousands of attendees pouring into the Convention Center from December 8 to 14 for top-tier AI conference NeurIPS 2019.
How Face Recognition Tech Is Driving the Short Video Trend
Face recognition will continue to play a big role as short video platforms develop functions to appeal to new target groups and provide more innovative, personalized and engaging content to users.
Weekly Papers | Fine-Grained Neural Architecture Search; Adversarial Examples Boost Image Recognition; Judea Pearl Lauds “Comprehensive, Delightful, Inspiring” Max Planck Paper, and More!
On Fridays, Synced selects seven studies from the last seven days that present topical, innovative or otherwise interesting or important research that we believe may be of special interest to our readers.
King’s and University of Surrey | Deep Learning Improves Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure
This research demonstrated that deep learning can contribute to the traditional discipline with much better performance than existing methods.
Personal Invisibility Cloak Stymies People Detectors
Researchers from Facebook AI and the University of Maryland have introduced a 21st century version — sweatshirts printed with adversarial examples that make the wearer undetectable to the AI-powered object detectors in today’s public surveillance systems.
Deep Learning Model Morphs VTube Talking Heads With a Few Mouse Clicks
A Google researcher has released a deep neural network model that makes animating a VTube persona a little easier.
Can Simple Neuron Interactions Capture Complex Linguistic Phenomena?
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tencent AI Lab and University of Macau have proposed a new neuron interaction based representation composition for NMT.
CAH Black Friday AI Challenge; AI-Generated Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes; Go Master Lee Sedol Retires Because AI
Synced Global AI Weekly December 1st
Fighting Fire & Floods With Smart Emergency Systems
Simulation systems can play a valuable role in identifying and testing evacuation plans to enable individuals to promptly leave a dangerous area via the safest and fastest route.