ICLR 2021 Announces List of Accepted Papers
Of the 2997 submissions, 860 papers have made it to ICLR 2021, for an acceptance rate of 28.7 percent — slightly higher than last year’s 26.5 percent.
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For Its Latest Trick, OpenAI’s GPT-3 Generates Images From Text Captions
OpenAI has trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Failures
This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of “Artificial Intelligence Failures.” Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that we can create better AI systems in the future.
2020 in Review: 8 New AI Regulatory Proposals from Governments
As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Tools Tackling COVID-19
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered efforts that contributed to the fight against COVID-19 in 2020.
2020 in Review: 10 Nonfiction Books AI Experts Enjoyed Reading
Synced has compiled a list of nonfiction books that notable AI researchers and engineers have recommended on Twitter over the last 12 months.
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Art Projects
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered art projects that inspired and entertained us in 2020.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Podcasts You Need to Know
Synced has selected 10 AI-related podcasts for readers to check out over the holiday season.
Heidelberg University Researchers Combine CNNs and Transformers to Synthesize High-Resolution Images
Researchers combine the effectiveness of the inductive bias in CNNs with the expressivity of transformers to model and synthesize high resolution images.
‘We Can Do It’ – Geoffrey Hinton and UBC, UT, Google & UVic Team Propose Unsupervised Capsule Architecture for 3D Point Clouds
In the new paper Canonical Capsules: Unsupervised Capsules in Canonical Pose, Turing Award Honoree Dr. Geoffrey Hinton and a team of researchers propose an architecture for unsupervised learning with 3D point clouds based on capsules.
2020 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2020.
NeurIPS 2020 | Teaching Transformers New Tricks
This year, 22 Transformer-related research papers were accepted by NeurIPS, the world’s most prestigious machine learning conference. Synced has selected ten of these works to showcase the latest Transformer trends.
Mila Proposes New Inductive Biases to Boost Deep Learning
Yoshua Bengio and Anirudh Goyal from Mila - Quebec AI Institute delve into human and non-human animal intelligence and how it can inform deep learning.
Depix AI Recovers Pixelized Passwords, Earns 10K GitHub Stars
“Depix” is a new AI-powered tool that can easily undo pixelization to enable recovery of the information therein.
This Pizza Does Not Exist: StyleGAN2-Based Model Generates Photo-Realistic Pizza Images
The new AI-powered Multi-Ingredient Pizza Generator (MPG) can deliver all these mouth-watering pies and many more.
‘ImHex’ Tops GitHub Trending Repos With 1600 Stars in 24 Hours!
ImHex’s creator says his trending hex editor is aimed at “Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eyesight when working at 3 AM.”
DeepMind Augments, Salutes the JAX Library Ecosystem
Google DeepMind has added Jraph to the JAX ecosystem, the machine learning framework will also appear in a NeurIPS 2020 Spotlight.
Open AI’s GPT-3 Paper Shares NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award With Works from Politecnico di Milano, CMU and UC Berkeley
OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT-3 language model paper, a no-regret learning dynamics study from Politecnico di Milano & Carnegie Mellon University, and a UC Berkeley work on data summarization have been named the NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award winners.
AAAI 2021 Announces Paper Totals – ‘Amazingly High Technical Level’
AAAI 2021 received a record-high 9034 submissions and over 7911 papers went to review and a total of 1692 papers made it, for an acceptance rate of 21 percent
NVIDIA Neural Talking-Head Synthesis Makes Video Conferencing 10x More Bandwidth Efficient
The approach dramatically reduces bandwidth requirements by sending only a keypoint representation [of faces] and reconstructing the source video on the receiver side with the help of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to synthesize the talking heads.
Princeton Student’s AI Model Generates Chinese Landscape Paintings That Fool Human Evaluators
A Princeton student designed a GAN framework for Chinese landscape painting generation that is so effective most humans can’t distinguish its works from the real thing.
‘Biology’s ImageNet Moment’ – DeepMind Says Its AlphaFold Has Cracked a 50-Year-Old Biology Challenge
Google’s UK-based lab and research company DeepMind says its AlphaFold AI system has solved the protein folding problem, a grand challenge that has vexed the biology research community for half a century.
Do We Really Need Green Screens for High-Quality Real-Time Human Matting?
Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong and SenseTime propose a lightweight matting objective decomposition network (MODNet) that can smoothly process real-time human matting from a single input image with diverse and dynamic backgrounds.
University of Alberta U^2-Net: Generating Realistic Pencil Portraits Using Salient Object Detection
University of Alberta recently proposed U^2-Net, a novel deep network architecture that achieves very competitive performance in salient object detection.
Impersonator++ Human Image Synthesis – Smarten Up Your Dance Moves!
A new AI-powered image synthesis framework makes “learning” to moonwalk or drop Blackpink dance moves a snap.
Facebook Building Automatic Differentiation System for Kotlin Programming Language
Facebook AI is building an automatic differentiation system for the Kotlin programming language and developing a system for tensor typing.
EMNLP 2020 Best Paper Award Goes to UC Berkeley Team
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020) kicked off on Monday as a virtual conference.
DeepMind Open-Sources Lab2D: Environmental Design for Multi-Agent RL Research
A new DeepMind scalable environment simulator takes a digital approach to the question, enabling the examination of environmental factors on AI agents.
Google & DeepMind Debut Benchmark for Long-Range Transformers
Google Research and DeepMind debut Long-Range Arena (LRA) benchmark for Transformer research on tasks with long sequence lengths.
Google Brain Paper Demystifies Learned Optimizers
Google Brain ICLR 2021 submission analyzes learned optimizers’ performance advantage over well-tuned baseline optimizers.
Amazon Alexa AI’s ‘Language Model Is All You Need’ Explores NLU as QA
Amazon Alexa AI paper asks whether NLU problems could be mapped to question-answering (QA) problems using transfer learning.
German Startup’s “AI Expert Roadmap” Gets 3.5k GitHub Stars
A new AI Expert Roadmap developed by German software company AMAI is garnering keen interest from aspiring AI professionals around the world.
Google, OpenAI & DeepMind: Shared Task Behaviour Priors Can Boost RL and Generalization
In a new paper, researchers from Google, OpenAI, and DeepMind introduce “behaviour priors,” a framework designed to capture common movement and interaction patterns that are shared across a set of related tasks or contexts.
Facebook AI Says Class Selectivity In Neurons May Impair DNN Performance
Facebook AI says DNNs can perform well without class specific neurons and overreliance on intuition-based methods for understanding DNNs can be misleading.
DeepMind Introduces Algorithms for Causal Reasoning in Probability Trees
Probability trees may have been around for decades, but they have received little attention from the AI and ML community.
Amazon’s BERT Optimal Subset: 7.9x Faster & 6.3x Smaller Than BERT
Amazon extracts an optimal subset of architectural parameters for BERT architecture by applying recent breakthroughs in algorithms for neural architecture search.
AI Halloween Avatars! StyleGAN2 Generator Reveals Your Inner Zombie
Now, just in time for costume season, another indie developer has taken facial image transfer tech to the opposite end of the cuteness spectrum, building a zombie generator.
A Look at Google’s Efforts to Earn Public Trust Through ML Fairness and Responsible AI
“Trust in AI systems is becoming, if not already, the biggest barrier for enterprises — as they start to move from exploring AI or potentially piloting or doing some proof of concept works into deploying AI into a production system”
ICLR 2021 Submission | ‘Lambda Networks’ Achieve SOTA Accuracy, Save Massive Memory
ICLR 2021 submission proposes LambdaNetworks, a transformer-specific method that reduces costs of modeling long-range interactions for CV and other applications.
Google Open-Sources 3D System That Shows How Places Looked in the Past
Google AI recently launched the open-source browser-based toolset “rǝ,” which was created to enable the exploration of city transitions from 1800 to 2000 virtually in a three-dimensional view.