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by Synced 2020-02-22 2

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Volunteer Drone Teams Organize for COVID-19 Disinfection

Total disinfection coverage of DJI agricultural drones exceeds 600 million square meters across more than 1,000 villages.

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AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

A look at The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning

Bayesian inference meanwhile leverages Bayes’ theorem to update the probability of a hypothesis as additional data becomes available. How can Bayesian inference benefit deep learning models?

by Synced 2020-02-21 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

DeepMind Releases New JAX Libraries for Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

DeepMind announced yesterday the release of Haiku and RLax — new JAX libraries designed for neural networks and reinforcement learning respectively.

by Synced 2020-02-20 2

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Introduction to Deep Learning for Graphs and Where It May Be Heading

Researchers from Italy’s University of Pisa present a clear and engaging tutorial on the main concepts and building blocks involved in neural architectures for graphs.

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Anime-zing GANILLA for Ghibli Style Image Transfer

Researchers have proposed a novel generator network specialized on the illustrations in children’s books.

by Synced 2020-02-19 9

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Geoffrey Hinton & Google Brain Unsupervised Learning Algorithm Improves SOTA Accuracy on ImageNet by 7%

Researchers have proposed a simple but powerful “SimCLR” framework for contrastive learning of visual representations.

by Synced 2020-02-18 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Up Close and Personal With BERT – Google’s Epoch-Making Language Model

A recent Google Brain paper looks into Google’s hugely successful transformer network — BERT — and how it represents linguistic information internally.

by Synced 2020-02-17 4

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Allen Institute’s New ‘Computer Vision Explorer’ Lets Researchers Demo SOTA CV Models

The tool enables researchers to try, compare, and evaluate models to decide which work best on their datasets or for their research purposes.

by Synced 2020-02-16 3

AI AI Weekly Global

AAAI 2020 Best Papers; Turing Award Winners See a Turning Point for Deep Learning; MIT Reveals Voting App Vulnerabilities

Synced Global AI Weekly February 16th

by Synced 2020-02-15 2

AI Industry Smart Living

How AI Is Changing Your Kitchen

Thanks to AI technologies such as image recognition and machine learning, people can now save time, food and money in the kitchen while discovering creative and tasty recipes and even generating their own new and personalized flavours.

by Synced 2020-02-14 3

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

‘ClearGrasp’ Helps Robots See and Grasp Transparent Objects

Google teamed up with researchers from Synthesis AI and Columbia University to introduce a deep learning approach called ClearGrasp as a first step to teaching machines how to “see” transparent materials.

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AI Research

What’s Happening Down There? New Aerial Video Event Recognition Dataset and DL Benchmark

The study introduces an Event Recognition in Aerial video (ERA) dataset comprising 2,866 aerial videos collected from YouTube and annotated with labels from 25 different classes corresponding to an event that can be seen unfolding over a period of five seconds.

by Synced 2020-02-13 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Google Brain & CMU Semi-Supervised ‘Noisy Student’ Achieves 88.4% Top-1 Accuracy on ImageNet

Researchers from Google Brain and Carnegie Mellon University have released models trained with a semi-supervised learning method called “Noisy Student” that achieve 88.4 percent top-1 accuracy on ImageNet.

by Synced 2020-02-12 Number of comments0

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Unsupervised Approach for GAN Interpretability Through Semantic Direction Discovery

Researchers have introduced the first unsupervised learning approach for identifying interpretable semantic directions in the latent space of generative adversarial network (GAN) models.

by Synced 2020-02-12 9

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

17 Billion Parameters! Microsoft DeepSpeed Breeds World’s Largest NLP Model

Deep learning models are getting larger and larger to meet the demand for better and better performance. Meanwhile, the timeContinue Reading

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Beyond SPADE: Introducing Semantic Region-Adaptive Normalization for Image Synthesis

Researchers introduced semantic region-adaptive normalization (SEAN), a simple but effective building block for conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN).

by Synced 2020-02-10 5

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

AAAI 2020 | A Turning Point for Deep Learning? Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio Might Have Different Approaches

The Godfathers of AI and 2018 ACM Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio shared a stage in New York on Sunday night at an event organized by the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020).

by Synced 2020-02-10 2

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Research

Facebook Open-Sources PyTorch3D CV Library

In a bid to simplify 3D deep learning and improve processing performance and efficiency, Facebook recently introduced an open-source framework for 3D computer vision.

by Synced 2020-02-09 10

AI AI Weekly Global Research

Research Roundup: Science & Technology Versus the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Synced Global AI Weekly February 9th

by Synced 2020-02-08 7

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Battling the Coronavirus: Alibaba and Baidu AI Accelerate Vaccine and Drug R&D

The crucial step now is to develop matching vaccines and drugs to uproot its existence, and China’s big tech companies have stepped up to help.

by Synced 2020-02-07 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research Share My Research

Batchboost: Regularization for Stabilizing Training With Resistance to Underfitting & Overfitting

Batchboost is a simple technique to accelerate ML model training by adaptively feeding mini-batches with artificial samples which are created by mixing two examples from the previous step – in favor of pairing those that produce the difficult one.

by Synced 2020-02-07 1

Global Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Nature Bid to Boost Paper Review Transparency Applauded by ML Researchers

Leading scientific publication Nature announced it is launching a trial starting this week that will give authors of newly published papers the option of appending contents of the discussions they’ve had with and reports they’ve received from their reviewers.

by Synced 2020-02-06 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Sing Along! Japanese Researchers Develop Multispeaker Corpus for Singing Voice Synthesis

In an effort to enrich resources for multispeaker singing-voice synthesis, a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has developed a Japanese multispeaker singing-voice corpus.

by Synced 2020-02-06 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Radioactive Data: Facebook AI Knows Where You Got Your Training Dataset

Researchers proposed a “radioactive data” technique for subtly marking images in a dataset to help researchers later determine whether they were used to train a particular model.

by Synced 2020-02-05 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Machine Unlearning: Fighting for the Right to Be Forgotten

In a new paper, researchers from the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, and University of Wisconsin-Madison propose SISA training, a new framework that helps models “unlearn” information by reducing number of updates that need to be computed when data points are removed.

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Using Rotation, Translation, and Cropping to Boost Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning Models

In a new paper, researchers from the New York University and Modl.ai, a company applying machine learning to game developing, suggest that simple spacial processing methods such as rotation, translation and cropping could help increase model generality.

by Synced 2020-02-04 10

AI Asia Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Baidu Open-Sources RNA Prediction Algorithm for 2019 Novel Coronavirus

The tool can significantly accelerate the prediction time of a virus’s RNA secondary structure, affording frontline researchers an opportunity to better understand the virus and develop targeting vaccines in a time of crisis.

by Synced 2020-02-03 3

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Facebook HiPlot ‘Makes Understanding High Dimensional Data Easy’

Facebook’s new HiPlot is a lightweight interactive visualization tool that takes this further, using parallel plots to discover correlations and patterns in such high-dimensional data.

by Synced 2020-02-03 2

AI Others Research Tech Blog

A Look at ‘Escaping From Saddle Points on Riemannian Manifolds’

A new paper from the University of Washington Seattle and the University of California, Berkeley looks at saddle points on Riemannian Manifolds. In this article Synced takes a deep dive into this important research.

by Synced 2020-02-02 4

AI AI Weekly Global Research

AI Tackles the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Anemia and More; OpenAI Switches to PyTorch

Synced Global AI Weekly February 2nd

by Synced 2020-02-01 2

AI Industry Smart Living

Pet Retail Market Chases Smart Products

Advancements in machine learning in recent years have enabled a number of novel offerings in the pet retail market, pushing smart pet products sales to US$565 million in 2018.

by Synced 2020-01-31 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

DeepMind & UCL Introduce New Model and Test Set for Inference

Now, DeepMind and University College London (UCL) have introduced a new deep network called MEMO which matches SOTA results on Facebook’s bAbI dataset for testing text understanding and reasoning, and is the first and only architecture capable of solving long sequence novel reasoning tasks.

by Synced 2020-01-30 3

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Scientists Use DL and Other Tools for 2019 Novel Coronavirus Host and Infectivity Prediction

A new study suggests human-to-human transmission of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) may have started as early as mid December, 2019.

by Synced 2020-01-30 7

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Meet Meena: A Truly Chatty Chatbot

One of a new breed of open-domain chatbots designed to engage in conversations across any topic, Meena’s free and natural conversational abilities are closing the gap on human performance.

by Synced 2020-01-29 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Facebook AI mBART: The Tower of Babel’s Silicon Solution

Facebook AI researchers have further developed the BART model with the introduction of mBART.

by Synced 2020-01-29 5

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

AraNet: New Deep Learning Toolkit for Arabic Social Media

A team of researchers from the Natural Language Processing Lab at the University of British Columbia in Canada have proposed AraNet, a deep learning toolkit designed for Arabic social media processing.

by Synced 2020-01-28 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

New Study Suggests Self-Attention Layers Could Replace Convolutional Layers on Vision Tasks

Inspired by the performance of attention mechanisms in NLP, researchers have explored the possibility of applying them to vision tasks.

by Synced 2020-01-28 4

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Can AlphaZero Leap From Go & Chess to Quantum Computing?

A new study suggests DeepMind’s amazing game-playing algorithm AlphaZero could help unlock the power and potential of quantum computing.

by Synced 2020-01-27 2

AI Global Industry

Next Generation ArXiv and the Economics of Open Access Publishing

Making science accessible for all is a wonderful and enriching proposal. Unfortunately the execution is not that easy — and nobody knows this better than the team that pioneered arXiv, the world’s largest free scientific paper repository.

by Synced 2020-01-27 19

Nature Language Tech Research Smart Living

Say Woof? AI in Animal Language Translation

No matter whether we’re sharing our lives with beloved household pets or protecting wildlife in a remote location, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could somehow lift the language barrier that has impeded interspecies communication for millennia?