Research Roundup: Science & Technology Versus the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Synced Global AI Weekly February 9th
Tag: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CES 2020 Roundup: Tech Giants, Future Mobility, Smart Home and More
Synced Global AI Weekly January 12th
2019 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact
As part of our year-end series, Synced spotlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2019.
ICLR 2020 Accepted Papers Announced
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.
NeurIPS 2019 Roundup: Outstanding Papers, Featured Talks, Facts and Figures
Synced Global AI Weekly December 15th
Weekly Papers | Praising PyTorch; Improving Lip Reading; Generating Structured Text and More
Every Friday Synced selects seven recent studies that present topical, innovative or otherwise interesting or important research we believe may be of interest to our readers.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Are Commercial Labs Stealing Academia’s AI Thunder?
Commercial research labs run by Google Research, DeepMind, and OpenAI are taking central stage in the artificial intelligence era. The eye-popping achievements of these massively-funded AI labs are constantly producing headlines in tech journals and even mainstream media.
OpenAI Guards Its ML Model Code & Data to Thwart Malicious Usage
The San Francisco-based AI non-profit however has raised eyebrows in the research community with its unusual decision to not release the language model’s code and training dataset. In a statement sent to Synced, OpenAI explained the choice was made to prevent malicious use: “it’s clear that the ability to generate synthetic text that is conditioned on specific subjects has the potential for significant abuse.”
Exciting Papers and Projects from Google
Synced Global AI Weekly February 10th