ICML 2020 Announces Accepted Papers
A total of 1,088 papers out of 4,990 submissions made it to the prestigious machine learning conference.
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COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps – How Good Is Good Enough?
23 respected machine learning researchers propose that personalized peer-to-peer contact tracing through mobile apps has the potential to shift the paradigm of Covid-19 community spread.
How About Letting AI Take Care of Weather Forecasting?
With AI models gaining power and momentum across a number of industries in recent years, meteorological researchers are now applying the tech in satellite data processing, nowcasting, typhoon and extreme weather forecasting and other business and environmental analytics areas.
DeepMind Says Syntactic Biases ‘Helped BERT Do Better’
Researchers add syntactic biases to determine whether and where they can help BERT achieve better understanding.
KDD 2020 Opens Registration for 26th Annual Conference With Fully Virtual Program
ACM SIGKDD Will Tap Cutting-Edge Technology to Bring Together the Leading Voices in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
OpenAI Unveils 175 Billion Parameter GPT-3 Language Model
OpenAI announced the upgraded GPT-3 with a whopping 175 billion parameters.
Facebook AI’s DETR Applies Transformers to CV Tasks
Facebook this week released Detection Transformers (DETR), a new approach for object detection and panoptic segmentation tasks that uses a completely different architecture than previous object detection systems.
Bengio-Backed Startup Korbit Introduces STEM Intelligent Tutoring System
Canadian education technology startup Korbit Technologies has introduced a personalized AI-powered learning experience that it says can help all students learn faster and better in a cost-effective way.
Google Introduces BLEURT – a BERT-Based NLG Evaluation Metric
Google Research team proposes the automatic metric BLEURT which is based on the highly successful Google language model BERT.
Former Microsoft AI Head Harry Shum Joins Intelligent Local News Startup News Break as Chairman
Former Microsoft executive vice president of Artificial Intelligence and Research Harry Shum (Shen Xiangyang) has been appointed chairman of the board of the Silicon Valley startup News Break.
Introducing Paddle Quantum: How Baidu’s Deep Learning Platform PaddlePaddle Empowers Quantum Computing
Paddle Quantum is developed based on Baidu’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, which has become the first and unique deep learning platform in China that supports quantum machine learning.
New LaTeX.CSS Library Enables Websites to Look Like LaTeX Docs
Zurich-based student and aspiring full-stack software engineer Vincent Dörig has taken LaTeX to the website level with his GitHub project LaTeX.css.
NVIDIA’s GameGAN Uses AI to Recreate Pac-Man and Other Game Environments
GameGAN, a generative model that learns to visually imitate video game environments by ingesting screenplay and keyboard actions during training.
Breakthrough Colourization Technique Enables Instance-Aware Treatment of Multiple Objects
The research team proposes that colourization performance can be improved dramatically at the instance level for a few reasons.
Tsinghua & UC Berkeley | A New Meta-Baseline for Few-Shot Learning
A new simple baseline for few-shot learning that achieves state-of-the-art performance.
ICLR 2020 | A Look at Three Interesting Papers on the Robustness of Neural Networks
A look at three ICLR papers to look at that fall under the topic of robustness
Researchers Discover Near-Ideal Photon Sources in Silicon Quantum Photonics
The team introduces photon sources fabricated in silicon that meet a variety of requirements for scalable quantum photonics: high purity, high heralding efficiency, and high indistinguishability.
Cross-domain Correspondence Learning for Exemplar-based Image Translation
We present a general framework for exemplar-based image translation, which synthesizes a photo-realistic image from the input in a distinct domain, given an exemplar image.
Microsoft Build 2020 | World Top-5 Supercomputer With OpenAI, Microsoft Turing Models, Responsible ML Capabilities in AI Systems
The 48-hour digital event kicked off yesterday, and the company wasted no time making impactful announcements that included a new supercomputer, a family of large AI models, and a Responsible ML on Microsoft Azure initiative.
Neural Network AI is the Future of the Translation Industry
Recent advances in deep learning, also known as using neural machine learning, has proven to achieve state of the art results in machine translation.
ACL 2020 Announces Its 779 Accepted Papers
Organizers of the 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Sunday announced the list of accepted papers for the world-leading natural language processing (NLP) conference.
Google Introduces ‘Meta-Dataset’ Benchmark for Few-Shot Learning
Google AI researchers introduce Meta-Dataset, a large-scale and diverse benchmark for measuring the ability of few-shot classification models.
Facebook’s Highly Efficient New Real-Time Text-To-Speech System Runs on CPUs
To deliver human-level voices to its platform’s billions of users while maintaining strict compute efficiency, Facebook AI researchers have deployed a new neural TTS system that works on CPU servers.
Bringing Old Photos Back to Life
The proposed method outperforms supervised methods and unsupervised translation methods on restoring real photos.
How AI Is Transforming Financial Reimbursement
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are now widely used in tasks such as reimbursement specifications, automated financial statement generation, and content extraction.
Self-Supervised ‘Plan2Explore’ RL Agent Achieves SOTA Zero-Shot and Adaptation Performance
Enter Plan2Explore — a self-supervised RL agent designed to quickly generalize to unseen tasks in a zero or few-shot manner.
Google ‘Data Echoing’ Accelerates Neural Network Training
A “data echoing” technique that enables these time-consuming upstream training stages to also benefit from accelerators.
Jensen Huang Serves Up the A100: NVIDIA’s Hot New Ampere Data Centre GPU
The A100 represents the largest leap in performance across the company’s eight GPU generations - a boost of up to 20x over its predecessors.
Nifty Online Tool Animates Your Actions in Real Time
The delightful program can animate a 2D avatar in real-time from a webcam video stream input and has garnered 3,700 GitHub stars since its release.
Japanese Unicorn Preferred Networks Releases First PyTorch Library
Japanese artificial intelligence startup Preferred Networks (PFN) today debuted its PyTorch library pytorch-pfn-extras (PPE).
Google Brain’s DRL Helps Robots ‘Think While Moving’
The proposed concurrent DRL algorithm enables robots to take a broader and more long-term view of tasks and behaviours, and decide on their next action before the current one is completed.
New Baidu Algorithms Boost mRNA Vaccine Development for SARS-COV-2
LinearDesign, an efficient algorithm for optimized mRNA sequence design.
Cooperation Instead of Competition: Harvard & Microsoft Research Optimizes AI-Human Teamwork
A new paper explores the potentially richer optimizations that could result from a spirit of human-machine teamwork built on complementarity.
House-GAN: Relational Generative Adversarial Networks for Graph-constrained House Layout Generation
This paper proposes a novel graph-constrained generative adversarial network, whose generator and discriminator are built upon relational architecture.
GitHub Announces ‘Codespaces’ for In-Browser Coding
Codespaces is an in-browser integrated development environment (IDE) that lets users type their code directly on a GitHub website page.
AI2 & UW Researchers Propose ‘TL;DR’ Paper Summarization Task
A team from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Washington this week introduced TLDR generation, a new automatic summarization task for scientific papers.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Walks Away from Toronto Smart City Project
Google affiliated company Sidewalk Labs announced today that it is no longer pursuing the development of Toronto’s Quayside smart city project.
Epic-Kitchens | Largest Egocentric Video Dataset Gets New Baselines
Researchers from the University of Bristol, the University of Toronto and the University of Catania explain how they created Epic-Kitchens and introduce new baselines that emphasize the multimodal nature of the largest such egocentric video benchmark.
New TTNet Table Tennis Model Accelerates DL in Sports Analysis
A team of researchers from Russian AI startup OSAI recently introduced the real-time neural network TTNet, designed for processing high-resolution table tennis videos with both temporal and spatial data.
ICLR 2020 | Virtual Conference Openly Available Online; No Best Paper Awards This Year
ICLR 2020 accepted 687 out of 2,594 papers and drew over 5,600 participants from nearly 90 countries.