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by Synced 2019-08-14 1

AI Research

Does Deep Learning Still Need Backpropagation?

Now, researchers from the Victoria University of Wellington School of Engineering and Computer Science have introduced the HSIC (Hilbert-Schemidt independence criterion) bottleneck as an alternative to backpropagation for finding good representations.

by Synced 2019-08-13 3

AI Research

New Snip Smartphone App Converts Math Screenshots Into LaTeX

Not so long ago, mathematics students and researchers had to spend a tedious amount of time writing out equations in the technical and scientific documentation typesetting system LaTeX.

by Synced 2019-08-12 3

AI Research

PyTorch 1.2 Supports Transformer and Tensorboard; Summer Hackathon Announced

PyTorch v1.2 brings the machine learning community further improvements, including official support for Transformer, TensorBoard, and more.

by Synced 2019-08-12 1

AI Research

Tencent-backed Video App Kuaishou Is Turning Chinese Country Folk Into Hollywood Directors

Thanks to social video app Kuaishou and its plug-and-play tools, even rural Chinese with cheap smartphones are quickly and easily producing short videos featuring Hollywood-style special effects.

by Synced 2019-08-11 2

Research

DeepMind Loses $572M; KDD 2019 Best Papers; AI for Wildlife Conservation

Synced Global AI Weekly August 11st

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AI Industry

AI Provides Solutions for the Japanese Fishing Industry

This article looks at three Japanese cases where AI is being applied either in large-scale aquaculture or to improve yields in traditional capture fishing.

by Synced 2019-08-09 1

AI Research

Google AI & DeepMind Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning Understands Every Video Frame

Frame-by-frame fine-grained labeling is however a time-consuming task. To tackle this problem, researchers from Google AI and DeepMind have introduced a novel self-supervised learning method called Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning (TCC).

by Synced 2019-08-09 Number of comments0

AI Research

Semantic Based Adversarial Examples Fool Face Recognition

Researchers have proposed a new adversarial attack approach, SemanticAdv, which generates adversarial perturbations by manipulating not pixels but rather an image’s semantic attributes.

by Synced 2019-08-09 4

AI Research

AI Analyzes Chess Commentary to Learn to Play Chess

What if an AI could learn to play Chess based only on human game commentary? That interesting task has been tackled by SentiMATE, a new Chess algorithm proposed by University College London.

by Synced 2019-08-08 Number of comments0

AI Asia Research

South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face

Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classic Japanese-style anime face.

by Synced 2019-08-07 2

AI China Research

Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset

In a bid to combine anime and cartoon culture with machine learning, a research team from China’s leading video streaming service iQIYI has introduced a novel large unconstrained cartoon dataset they call “iCartoonFace.”

by Synced 2019-08-06 1

Conference Research

KDD 2019 Announces Best Paper Awards

KDD 2019 features both a Research track and an Applied Data Science (ADS) track, and today organizers announced their Best Paper Awards.

by Synced 2019-08-06 Number of comments0

AI China Industry

Tencent AI Trounces Pro Team in China’s #1 Mobile Game

China’s largest game-maker Tencent recently took a huge leap when its homegrown AI system Wukong AI (绝悟) trounced a human pro team in China’s most popular mobile game Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), aka Arena of Valor.

by Synced 2019-08-05 4

AI Research

Harvard Researchers Benchmark TPU, GPU & CPU for Deep Learning

Because training deep learning models requires intensive computation, AI researchers are always on the lookout for new and better hardware and software platforms for their increasingly sophisticated models.

by Synced 2019-08-04 Number of comments0

AI AI Weekly Conference Research

ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0

Synced Global AI Weekly August 4th

by Synced 2019-08-03 7

AI Industry

AI & New Retail: Recent Developments and Future Trends

The traditional retail industry is facing challenges as the rapid development and continuous improvement of AI tools and techniques ushers in the era of New Retail.

by Synced 2019-08-02 Number of comments0

AI Interview Research

Facebook AI Memory Layer Boosts Network Capacity by a Billion Parameters

Recently, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) researchers introduced a structured memory layer which can be easily integrated into a neural network to greatly expand network capacity and the number of parameters without significantly changing calculation cost.

by Synced 2019-08-01 Number of comments0

AI Research

Robot Masters String Puppetry

A group of researchers from ETH Zurich have introduced a robotic system that can perform animation of real-world string puppets, aka marionettes.

by Synced 2019-08-01 1

AI Conference Research

ACL 2019 | Best Papers Announced

The ACL 2019 organizing committee announced its eight paper awards: Best Long Paper, Best Short Paper, Best Demo Paper, and five Outstanding Paper awards.

by Synced 2019-07-31 11

AI Research

Nature Cover Story | Chinese Team’s ‘Tianjic Chip’ Bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience in Pursuit of AGI

Today, respected scientific journal Nature boosted the case for AGI with a cover story on a new research paper, Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, which aims to stimulate AGI development by adopting generalized hardware platforms.

by Synced 2019-07-31 2

AI Industry

Greening AI | New AI2 Initiative Promotes Model Efficiency

Researchers at the Seattle Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have proposed a Green AI initiative designed to make future AI research more energy efficient.

by Synced 2019-07-30 Number of comments0

AI Research

Baidu’s ERNIE 2.0 Beats BERT and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks

Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.

by Synced 2019-07-29 3

AI Research

Julia Computing & MIT Introduce Differentiable Programming System Bridging AI and Science

A research team from Julia Computing and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose that extensive scientific computing and machine learning domains both require linear algebra support on their underlying structures.

by Synced 2019-07-29 Number of comments0

Research

New Multilingual Video Description Dataset VATEX Receives Three Strong Accepts at ICCV

This paper presents a new large-scale multilingual video description dataset, covering over 41,250 videos and 825,000 captions in both Chinese and English.

by Synced 2019-07-29 Number of comments0

AI Conference

Neural Architects: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?

The Neural Architects Workshop gathers experts and researchers in the field of deep neural network (DNN) design to share their insights and experiences working in this domain.

by Synced 2019-07-28 1

AI AI Weekly

Waymo Teams Up With DeepMind; Lyft Shares Large-Scale Dataset

Synced Global AI Weekly July 28th

by Synced 2019-07-27 6

AI Industry Self Driving

Cars, Cockpits, & Intelligent Pilot

A hot topic today is Intelligent Pilot Systems, an automotive driving concept comprising a smart vehicle assistant that enables a user to interact with the vehicle via voice; and intelligent mechanized function control for car entertainment, safety, autonomous driving and navigation.

by Synced 2019-07-26 Number of comments0

AI Industry

Huawei’s First 5G Phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, Hits the Chinese Market

The wait is over. This morning Huawei released its first 5G phone, the Mate 20 X 5G, in China. The phone was launched earlier this year in Switzerland and several other countries.

by Synced 2019-07-26 Number of comments0

AI Research

Animated Selfies and Other AI Image Processing Magic

The new AI-powered Animate feature on Meitu’s signature selfie app brings still pictures to life with floral auras, resplendent butterflies, flowing hair, petal bursts, flame nebulas, fireworks and more.

by Synced 2019-07-25 7

AI AIoT Asia China Research

Alibaba Is Open-Sourcing Its Powerful New RISC-V Processor for 5G and AI

Alibaba’s chip subsidiary Pingtouge (平头哥) yesterday introduced its first product, an RISC-V (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processor.

by Synced 2019-07-25 9

AI Research

Meet Your AI-Generated Dream Anime Girl

Do you dream of Asuna Yuuki? Do you long to escape to a fantasy world with a beautiful anime partner? If so there’s a new artificial intelligence system just for you — the “Waifu Vending Machine” can create a highly customized anime companion in minutes.

by Synced 2019-07-24 Number of comments0

AI Research

Has BERT Been Cheating? Researchers Say it Exploits ‘Spurious Statistical Cues’

Since Google Research introduced its Bidirectional Transformer (BERT) in 2018 the model has gained unprecedented popularity among researchers. Now, a group of researchers from the National Cheng Kung University Tainan in Taiwan are challenging BERT’s efficacy.

by Synced 2019-07-24 5

AI Industry

Robot Music Through the Ages

With recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation in machines, robots are advancing into previously unexplored industries such as music and entertainment.

by Synced 2019-07-23 2

AI Industry

2019 Google Scholar Metrics Released, CVPR Cracks the Top Ten

Estimates peg the total number of academic papers and other scholarly literature indexed on the Google Scholar at almost 400 million, making it the world’s largest such database.

by Synced 2019-07-23 Number of comments0

AI Conference

Few-Shot and Federated Learning Among Trending Topics Discussed at Top Chinese AI Conference Shibei·GMIS 2019

The Shibei·GMIS 2019 Global Machine Intelligence Summit, a top-tier Chinese artificial intelligence conference, took place July 19 – 20 at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Parkview.

by Synced 2019-07-23 Number of comments0

AI Research

Google BlazeFace Performs Submillisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs

Google researchers have introduced a new face detection framework called BlazeFace, adapted from the Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) framework and optimized for inference on mobile GPUs.

by Synced 2019-07-22 Number of comments0

AI Research

Natural Adversarial Examples Slash Image Classification Accuracy by 90%

Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Universities of Washington and Chicago have released a set of natural adversarial examples, which they call “ImageNet-A.”

by Synced 2019-07-21 1

AI AI Weekly

AI Summer Fun! Pizza, Pooches & Cool Apps

Synced Global AI Weekly July 21st

by Synced 2019-07-20 3

AI Asia Global News Industry

One Year Countdown: Readying AI Security for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

This time next year an expected 10 million foreign visitors and millions of Japanese from Hokkaido to Okinawa will converge on the Tokyo Metropolis for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.

by Synced 2019-07-19 Number of comments0

AI Research

Google Brain & CMU Advance Unsupervised Data Augmentation for Semi-Supervised Learning

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Google Brain have now proposed an unsupervised data augmentation (UDA) technique that significantly improves semi-supervised learning (SSL) by conducting data augmentation on unlabeled data.