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by Synced 2019-12-11 1

AI Research

Stanford, Kyoto & Georgia Tech Model ‘Neutralizes’ Biased Language

Pryzant and other Stanford researchers partnered with researchers from Kyoto University and Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a novel natural language model that can identify and neutralize biased framings, presuppositions, attitudes, etc. in text.

by Synced 2019-12-10 Number of comments0

AI Industry

Japanese Unicorn Preferred Networks Migrates Its DL Platform to PyTorch

Preferred Networks is migrating its deep learning research platform from its own open source framework Chainer to PyTorch.

by Synced 2019-12-09 1

AI Research

Playing Space Invaders Blind | RL & Cross Modality Transfer

Using cross-modality transfer techniques and reinforcement learning (RL), the researchers produced an agent that can play video games with only the game audio to guide it.

by Synced 2019-12-08 3

AI Conference

NeurIPS 2019 Opens; Outstanding Paper Awards and 2021 Conference Announced

In a blog post, the NeurIPS organizing committee announced the conference’s outstanding paper awards and other awards.

by Synced 2019-12-08 7

AI AI Weekly Conference

What to Expect at NeurIPS 2019; Google Founders Leave Alphabet; ML Maestro Michael I. Jordan Wins John von Neumann Medal

Synced Global AI Weekly December 8th

by Synced 2019-12-07 1

AI Conference

Vancouver SkyTrain Shutdown? Bad Timing for NeurIPS Attendees

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.

by Synced 2019-12-07 4

AI Industry

How Face Recognition Tech Is Driving the Short Video Trend

Face recognition will continue to play a big role as short video platforms develop functions to appeal to new target groups and provide more innovative, personalized and engaging content to users.

by Synced 2019-12-06 1

AI Research Weekly Papers

Weekly Papers | Fine-Grained Neural Architecture Search; Adversarial Examples Boost Image Recognition; Judea Pearl Lauds “Comprehensive, Delightful, Inspiring” Max Planck Paper, and More!

On Fridays, Synced selects seven studies from the last seven days that present topical, innovative or otherwise interesting or important research that we believe may be of special interest to our readers.

by Synced 2019-12-05 1

AI Research

King’s and University of Surrey | Deep Learning Improves Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure

This research demonstrated that deep learning can contribute to the traditional discipline with much better performance than existing methods.

by Synced 2019-12-04 7

AI Research

Personal Invisibility Cloak Stymies People Detectors

Researchers from Facebook AI and the University of Maryland have introduced a 21st century version — sweatshirts printed with adversarial examples that make the wearer undetectable to the AI-powered object detectors in today’s public surveillance systems.

by Synced 2019-12-03 3

AI Research

Deep Learning Model Morphs VTube Talking Heads With a Few Mouse Clicks

A Google researcher has released a deep neural network model that makes animating a VTube persona a little easier.

by Synced 2019-12-02 Number of comments0

AI Research

Can Simple Neuron Interactions Capture Complex Linguistic Phenomena?

Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tencent AI Lab and University of Macau have proposed a new neuron interaction based representation composition for NMT.

by Synced 2019-12-01 7

AI AI Weekly Research

CAH Black Friday AI Challenge; AI-Generated Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes; Go Master Lee Sedol Retires Because AI

Synced Global AI Weekly December 1st

by Synced 2019-11-30 5

AI Industry

Fighting Fire & Floods With Smart Emergency Systems

Simulation systems can play a valuable role in identifying and testing evacuation plans to enable individuals to promptly leave a dangerous area via the safest and fastest route.

by Synced 2019-11-29 4

AI Research

Weekly Papers | Multi-Label Deep Forest (MLDF); Huawei UK Critiques DeepMind α-Rank

Synced selects seven studies from the last seven days that present topical, innovative or otherwise interesting or important research that we believe may be of special interest to our readers.

by Synced 2019-11-29 10

Research

Tencent Open-Sources High-Performance Graph Computing Framework ‘Plato’

Tencent Graph Computing (TGraph) officially announced the release of Plato, an open source high-performance graph computing framework that meets the ultra-large-scale graph computing requirement of billion-level nodes.

by Synced 2019-11-28 6

AI Industry Research

Herring, Not Herring: Deep Learning Accelerates Detection and Classification of Underwater Species

The collaboration produced a deep learning framework for the automatic detection of schools of herring from echograms that outperforms traditional hand-crafted machine learning algorithms on precision, recall, and F1-score metrics.

by Synced 2019-11-27 1

AI Research

Google & Johns Hopkins University | Can Adversarial Examples Improve Image Recognition?

Rather than attempting to defend convolutional networks against them, the researchers introduce a novel enhanced adversarial training scheme, AdvProp, which treats adversarial examples as additional training examples to improve the accuracy of image classification models.

by Synced 2019-11-26 1

Research

MarioNETte: Few-Shot Identity Preservation in Facial Reenactment

Researchers from the South Korea-based tech company Hyperconnect recently proposed a new framework, MarioNETte, which aims to reenact target faces in a few-shot manner (from even a single image) while preserving identity without any fine-tuning.

by Synced 2019-11-25 5

AI Research

AI Helps Quantum Chemists Determine Molecular Wave Functions

An interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, and computer scientists have developed a deep learning algorithm that leverages fundamental quantum mechanics equations to accurately predict the quantum mechanical wave functions of molecules.

by Synced 2019-11-24 5

AI AI Weekly Research

Do Human Gamers Stand a Chance Against Trash-Talking AI Bots?

Synced Global AI Weekly November 24th

by Synced 2019-11-23 12

AI Industry

AI in the E-Commerce Industry

E-commerce is a fast-growing industry. In 2017, global retail e-commerce sales reached US$2.3 trillion, and e-retail revenue is expected to grow to US$4.88 trillion in 2021.

by Synced 2019-11-22 1

AI Research

Weekly Papers | Quoc V. Le and Kaiming He Look at Vision; Intelligence, Psychology and AI; Evolving the Hearthstone Meta and More!

Synced has surveyed last week’s crop of papers in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, computation and language, and beyond, and identified seven studies that we believe may be of special interest to our readers.

by Synced 2019-11-22 Number of comments0

AI Research

AI Is Tearing Up the Dancing Floor Again

For decades machines have been able to understand simple musical features like beats per minute. Now AI is boosting their abilities to the point that they can not only figure out what particular genre of music is playing, but also how to appropriately dance to it.

by Synced 2019-11-21 Number of comments0

AI Research

Voila! SOTA French Language Model ‘CamemBERT’ Debuts

Now, a team from Facebook AI Research, Inria, and Sorbonne Université have released CamemBERT, essentially a French version of Google AI’s game-changing pretrained language model BERT.

by Synced 2019-11-21 Number of comments0

AI Conference Research

Google Brain’s Nicholas Frosst on Adversarial Examples and Emotional Responses

Although convolutional neural networks have reached Superman level on image classification tasks, adversarial examples remain the kryptonite that can mysteriously defeat even SOTA models.

by Synced 2019-11-20 Number of comments0

AI Research

Big RNNs Achieve SOTA Performance in Video Prediction

It’s not as easy as one might imagine to train an AI model to accurately predict what a human will do next, even when they are interacting with a relatively simple object like a ball.

by Synced 2019-11-19 Number of comments0

AI Research

Can Bots Surpass the ‘Realism’ of Human Dialogue?

Microsoft’s new tunable gigaword-scale neural network DialogGPT is a virtual master of conversation that outperforms strong baseline systems in generating relevant and context-consistent responses and attains near human level performance in conversational response generation tasks.

by Synced 2019-11-18 Number of comments0

AI Conference

Google Brain’s Hugo Larochelle on Few-Shot Learning

In fact, the accuracy of results in few-shot learning, both with and without labeled data, is very high.

by Synced 2019-11-18 1

AI China Industry

Huawei Tops ETH Zurich 2019 Smartphone Deep Learning Rankings

In an effort to benchmark deep learning on smartphones in the Android ecosystem, researchers from the ETH Zurich Computer Vision Lab last year developed an AI Benchmark application to measure the AI readiness of more than 200 Android devices and 100 mobile SoCs collected in the wild.

by Synced 2019-11-17 1

AI AI Weekly

Google Health Data Backlash; Microsoft Head of AI and Research Splits; Bengio vs Marcus in Christmas Debate

Synced Global AI Weekly November 17th

by Synced 2019-11-16 8

AI Asia Conference

AI Struts Down the Japanese Fashion Runway

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.

by Synced 2019-11-15 Number of comments0

AI Conference

DeepMind Research Lead Doina Precup On Reinforcement Learning

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.”

by Synced 2019-11-15 Number of comments0

AI Conference Industry

Baidu PaddlePaddle Releases 21 New Capabilities to Accelerate Industry-Grade Model Development

Featuring 100+ models, new mobile inference engine, and frameworks for graph & federated learning

by Synced 2019-11-15 Number of comments0

Research

Weekly Papers | EMNLP 2019 Best Paper; Facebook XLM-R and More!

Synced surveyed last week’s crop of machine learning papers and identified seven that we believe may be of special interest to our readers.

by Synced 2019-11-14 7

AI Research

Japanese Scientist Insists His Robot Twin Is Not Creepy

In an exclusive interview with Synced, the 56-year-old professor shared his thoughts on humanoids, human nature, human-robot interaction, knowledge and intelligence.

by Synced 2019-11-14 3

AI Conference United States

Intel AI Summit 2019 | Chip Giant Accelerates AI at the Edge

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.

by Synced 2019-11-13 9

AI Industry

Head of Microsoft AI and Research Harry Shum Is Leaving the Company

Microsoft Executive Vice President Harry Shum (Shen Xiangyang), the head of Microsoft AI and Research, will leave the tech giant in early 2020.

by Synced 2019-11-13 1

AI Conference

AAAI 2020 Reports Record-High Paper Submissions

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.

by Synced 2019-11-12 1

AI Industry

Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019: ‘The Power of Industry’

The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is “the power of industry” and the selection process will key in on AI companies’ products, application cases and industry landings — with the most noteworthy companies chosen based on real and objective industry performance.