ICML Announces Best Paper Awards; What to Expect at CVPR 2019
Synced Global AI Weekly June 16th
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The Online Dating Industry Loves Artificial Intelligence
Instead of having users simply swipe through headshots, many new dating apps and online platforms are leveraging artificial intelligence to introduce a variety of novel approaches to smart matchmaking.
AI for Good, AI for Gender Equality
The more than 2,000 participants from over 120 countries were here for the *AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva 2019* — four days of presentations and discussions on how to make the world a better place for children to grow up in by leveraging the emerging power of machine learning.
Peeking Inside DNNs With Information Theory
Deep learning model performance has taken huge strides, allowing researchers to tackle tasks which were simply not possible for machines less than a decade ago.
Google TensorNetwork Library Dramatically Accelerates ML & Physics Tasks
In a joint effort with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Alphabet (Google) X, Google AI researchers recently announced a new open source library, TensorNetwork, which can greatly improve the efficiency of tensor calculations for tensor network algorithms.
Are Weights Really Important to Neural Networks?
Architecture and weights are two essential considerations for artificial neural networks. Architecture is akin to the innate human brain, and contains the neural network’s initial settings such as hyperparameters, layers, node connections (or wiring), etc.
RingNet | 3D Face Estimation Without 3D Supervision
In a new paper accepted at CVPR 2019, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems introduce RingNet, an end-to-end trainable network which learns to compute 3D face shape from a single face image without 3D supervision.
ICML 2019 | Google, ETH Zurich, MPI-IS, Cambridge & PROWLER.io Share Best Paper Honours
The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) kicked off Monday in California. The ICML is one of the world’s two top conferences in ML and AI (the other being NeurIPS).
New Facebook PyTorch Hub Facilitates Reproducibility Testing
In a bid to provide a smoother reproduction experience, Facebook has announced the beta release of PyTorch Hub, a new pretrained model repository designed to facilitate research reproducibility testing.
New DeepMind Unsupervised Image Model Challenges AlexNet
A new paper from Google’s UK-based research company DeepMind addresses this with a model based on Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) that outperforms the fully-supervised AlexNet model in Top-1 and Top-5 accuracy on ImageNet.
BatchNorm + Dropout = DNN Success!
A group of researchers from Tencent Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Nankai University recently combined two commonly used techniques — Batch Normalization (BatchNorm) and Dropout — into an Independent Component (IC) layer inserted before each weight layer to make inputs more independent*.
Chatbots, AI Generated Fake Faces & Carbon Footprints — What’s Hot on Reddit?
Synced Global AI Weekly June 9th
DeepMind & Google Brain Open Source HLE Framework for ‘Hanabi’
A favourite is the collaborative card game Hanabi, which won the 2013 Spiel des Jahres and 2013 Fairplay À la Carte Award. The game has now drawn the attention of AI researchers.
Google Announces TensorFlow 2.0 Beta
Google today announced the release of the Beta version of TensorFlow 2.0. The new version of the world’s most popular open source machine learning library is being welcomed by developers.
VisualData: A Search Engine for Computer Vision Datasets
Building large datasets is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task which challenges entities with limited budgets. There are hundreds of open visual datasets out there, but searching across them and their millions of entries is not a simple task.
DeepMind AI Reaches Human-Level Performance in Quake III Arena
DeepMind is a trailblazer in the trending computer vs humans gaming research space. Following milestone victories against human pros on the board game Go and video game StarCraft II, the Google-owned research company has now pitted their new AI system against humans in the first-person shooter multiplayer video game Quake III Arena.
Going Beyond GAN? New DeepMind VAE Model Generates High Fidelity Human Faces
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become AI researchers’ “go-to” technique for generating photo-realistic synthetic images. Now, DeepMind researchers say that there may be a better option.
AI Beatbox and Self-Awareness: A Night of Artistic Intelligence
Hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, UN staff and curious locals listened, watched and tapped their feet as London-born composer and human beatboxer Reeps One “battled” against an AI-powered real-time music generator trained on his own riffs.
Google AI ‘EfficientNets’ Improve CNN Scaling
Might there be a more efficient approach to scaling up CNNs to improve accuracy? Researchers from Google AI say “yes” and have proposed a new model scaling method in their ICML 2019 paper EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks.
CapsAttacks: Testing Adversarial Attacks on Capsule Networks
Researchers from Technische Universität Wien, Austria, and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, explored adversarial attacks on Capsule Networks, proposing an algorithm which automatically generates targeted adversarial examples in black-box attack scenarios.
UC Berkeley’s RL-Powered SOLAR Accelerates Robotic Learning
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) has introduced a new reinforcement learning (RL) method, Stochastic Optimal Control with Latent Representations (SOLAR), which can help robots quickly learn tasks such as stacking blocks or pushing objects from visual inputs.
IEEE Reverses Huawei Paper Review Restrictions
In a new statement issued late Sunday, the world’s largest technical professional organization the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced it is lifting restrictions it had imposed scarcely a week ago on editorial and peer reviews involving employees of Chinese tech communication giant Huawei.
‘Hot’ Papers from Google Brain, DeepMind and Facebook AI
Synced Global AI Weekly June 2nd
Grandma’s Robot: How AI Is Revolutionizing Elder Care
By 2050 almost one-in-four humans will be aged 60 years and older, double today’s share. Moreover, the number of people aged 80 years and older will quadruple. This demographic shift is opening new vistas for AI technologies in elders’ daily healthcare management, and as a useful tool for healthcare professionals and institutions treating seniors.
RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2019
The two-day RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2019 gathered more than 60 speakers from top AI labs such as MIT CSAIL, Uber AI Labs, Adobe Research and other experts from the AI healthcare industry who provided high-level deep learning technical discussions and industry application insights.
AI Restores Photos of ’90s Hong Kong Film Stars
Earlier this month restored images of iconic Hong Kong film stars like Bridget Lin and Joey Wong began circulating on Chinese social media. An AI-enabled touch-up process revealed distinct facial contours and features in old and fuzzy or low-res photos, revisiting the comely visages that made the public fall in love with these ’90s stars.
ML Community Raises Inclusivity Concerns After IEEE Bars Huawei Paper Reviewers
The world’s biggest technical professional organization, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) issued a statement on May 22 that forbids its colleagues from Huawei and 68 of its affiliates from reviewing or accessing non-public papers submitted by other persons for publications.
Ask AI: Is Bob Dylan an Author or a Songwriter?
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab recently proposed a new model that incorporates knowledge graphs (KG) into training on large-scale corpora for language representation.
AMD, Intel, Arm, and NVIDIA Put Their Chips on the Table at Computex 2019
The top semiconductor and hardware companies have arrived in Taipei, Taiwan for Computex 2019. The world’s biggest computer show is a preferred stage for the likes of AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Arm to showcase their latest chip designs.
DeepMind Proposes a Novel Way to Improve GANs Using Gradient Information
Compressed Sensing’s ability to exploit the structure of natural images and recover an image from limited random measurements have made it an elegant framework for recovering sparse signals from compressed measurements.
Geoffrey Hinton Leads Google Brain Representation Similarity Index Research Aiming to Understand Neural Networks
A Google Brain research team led by Turing Award recipient Geoffrey Hinton recently published a paper that presents an effective method for measuring the similarity of representations learned by deep neural networks.
Five Powerful Robots You Shouldn’t Miss
Synced Global AI Weekly May 26th
Facial Recognition in Identity Verification
Facial recognition is a major class of biometric technology which is increasing its market share while expanding its applications across multiple industries.
Paper Submissions Break NeurIPS 2019 Paper Submission System
The Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) that leading machine learning conference NeurIPS 2019 uses to process academic paper submissions failed in the countdown to yesterdays’s 1 p.m. PT submission deadline.
Moving Camera, Moving People: Google AI’s Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
Google AI has introduced a deep learning based approach that generates depth prediction from videos where both camera and subject are in motion.
Samsung AI Makes the Mona Lisa ‘Speak’
Imagine the lips forming the Mona Lisa’s famous smile were to part, and she began “speaking” to you. This is not some sci-fi fantasy or a 3D face animation, it’s an effect achieved by researchers from Samsung AI lab and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, who used adversarial learning to generate a photorealistic talking head model.
ACM Announces Best Doctoral Paper
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the recipient of its 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Chelsea Finn, a PhD student from UC Berkeley, took the top honour with her paper Learning to Learn with Gradients.
NeurIPS 2019 Will Host Minecraft Reinforcement Learning Competition
A group of AI experts from top US universities is organizing a sample-efficient reinforcement learning competition, MineRL, which will start on June 1, 2019. The organizers want to increase group participation in reinforcement learning and are encouraging people to “play to benefit science”.
Computer Graphics + Computer Vision = TensorFlow Graphics
Google’s deep learning TensorFlow platform has added Differentiable Graphics Layers with TensorFlow Graphics, a combination of computer graphics and computer vision. Google says TensorFlow Graphics can solve data labeling challenges for complex 3D vision tasks by leveraging a self-supervised training approach.
Facebook Open-Sources Pythia for Vision and Language Multimodal AI Models
Facebook announced today that it is open-sourcing Pythia, a deep learning framework for vision and language multimodal research framework that enables researchers to “more easily build, reproduce, and benchmark AI models.”