AI Technology & Industry Review
First-hand coverages on newest academic and industry conferences in machine intelligence.
The BAAI Conference 2022 kicked off on May 31 in Beijing and ran through June 2. AI experts, industry leaders, young talents and international delegates joined the virtual gathering and live stream for three busy days of high-level keynotes, tech talks, parallel forums and networking.
The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) kicked off today as a virtual conference. The organizing committee announced the Best Paper Awards and Runners Up during this morning’s opening ceremony.
The CoRL 2020 Best System Paper Award was presented today to Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University College London for their paper SMARTS: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Training School for Autonomous Driving.
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
Top Data Scientists Honored for Advanced Research and Applied Data Science in the Field of Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining
VR and AR will converge to combine the real and virtual, as Facebook Reality Labs researchers, developers, and engineers aim to change how we see the world.
The 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) kicked off on Sunday as a fully online conference. In the Conference Opening Session this morning, the ECCV organizing committee announced the conference’s paper submission stats and Best Paper selections.
However, as Reddit users pointed out, the conference title is an acronym for International Conference on Robotics and Applications, which is one-word slip from the well-known top IEEE ICRA – International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Talks, panels and papers dedicated to addressing social inequities and improving inclusivity in data science and artificial intelligence
The NeurIPS 2020 paper reviews were sent out last Friday, starting the author response phase.
NeurIPS desk-rejects (papers passed over without review) has become “a super noisy process,” complains a post in the Reddit Machine Learning group.
The acceptance rate of 21.8 percent is slightly lower than 2019’s 22.6 percent (774 accepted papers from 3,424 submissions).
Organizers of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) today announced their Best Paper Awards.
Organizers of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) have announced this year’s Test of Time award, which goes to a team from the California Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Saarland University.
Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) hosts MLOps, Production & Engineering 2020 through an interactive conference to enable attendees the opportunity to virtually engage with speakers and establish a stronger network within the AI community.
Today, organizers of the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) announced extending the paper submission deadline by 48 hours.
A total of 1,088 papers out of 4,990 submissions made it to the prestigious machine learning conference.
ACM SIGKDD Will Tap Cutting-Edge Technology to Bring Together the Leading Voices in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
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.
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.
EMNLP 2020 will be held entirely online from November 16 to 18 due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19.
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford computer science professor and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI), shared her thoughts on possible AI technologies that could help care for the seniors during the coronavirus pandemic
The paper acceptance rate fell to approximately 22 percent from 25 percent in 2019 and 29.6 percent in 2018.
Synced Global AI Weekly January 12th
Dr. Welling shares his views on FL, the importance of distributed learning, and the Bayesian aspects of the domain.
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.
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.
Synced Global AI Weekly December 15th
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.
In a blog post, the NeurIPS organizing committee announced the conference’s outstanding paper awards and other awards.
Synced Global AI Weekly December 8th
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.
Although convolutional neural networks have reached Superman level on image classification tasks, adversarial examples remain the kryptonite that can mysteriously defeat even SOTA models.
In fact, the accuracy of results in few-shot learning, both with and without labeled data, is very high.
Although Japan’s declining and aging population has done little to stimulate the domestic fashion industry, AI is getting very positive reviews from the country’s still massive JP¥9 trillion (US$83 billion) apparel market.
Precup discussed the latest developments in the field: “Reinforcement learning allows autonomous agents to learn how to act in a stochastic, unknown environment, with which they can interact.”
Featuring 100+ models, new mobile inference engine, and frameworks for graph & federated learning
The new Intel products strengthen the company’s growing portfolio of AI solutions, which is expected to generate more than US$3.5 billion in revenue in 2019.
AAAI-20 welcomes submissions on mainstream AI topics and related areas and reported a record-high number of over 8,800 submissions — a thousand more than last year.
The message from Microsoft is clear: the company is investing in knowledge, which it believes will become one of the most important assets of any organization.