AI Tackles the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Anemia and More; OpenAI Switches to PyTorch
Synced Global AI Weekly February 2nd
Tag: technology
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.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook AI mBART: The Tower of Babel’s Silicon Solution
Facebook AI researchers have further developed the BART model with the introduction of mBART.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft ImageBERT | Cross-modal Pretraining with Large-scale Image-Text Data
A recent paper published by Microsoft researchers proposes a new vision-language pretrained model for image-text joint embedding, ImageBERT, which which achieves SOTA performance on both the MSCOCO and Flickr30k datasets.
AI Headhunters & Tech Trends in Global Talent Recruitment
Over 80 percent of corporate survey respondents expect to see an increased use of technology in recruiting sourcing/outreach, candidate screening, and applications, while most also see the tech being used in candidate assessment and compensation package generation.
NLPR, SenseTime & NTU Accelerate Automatic Video Portrait Editing
Researchers from Beijing’s National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), SenseTime Research, and Nanyang Technological University have taken the tech one step further with a new framework that enables totally arbitrary audio-video translation.
Hallo! Hallo! KU Leuven & TU Berlin Introduce ‘RobBERT,’ a SOTA Dutch BERT
A group of researchers from The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and The Technical University of Berlin recently introduced a Dutch RoBERTa-based language model, RobBERT.
Google FixMatch: SOTA Performance on Semi-Supervised Learning Benchmarks
A team from Google Research introduced FixMatch, an algorithm that combines two common SSL methods for deep networks: pseudo-labeling (aka self-training) and consistency regularization.
Autonomous Learning Library Simplifies Intelligent Agent Creation
The Autonomous Learning Library is a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) library for PyTorch that streamlines the building and evaluation of novel reinforcement learning agents.
Google Introduces Flax: A Neural Network Library for JAX
Google recently introduce Flax - a neural network library for JAX that is designed for flexibility.
3DPeople | First Dataset to Map Clothing Geometry
A team of researchers from Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial and Harvard University recently introduced 3DPeople, a large-scale comprehensive dataset with specific geometric shapes of clothes that is suitable for many computer vision tasks involving clothed humans.
Give Your Apps a New Interface With Neural Style Transfer!
To enable both content creators and end users to seriously restyle their apps’ interfaces while maintaining content detail clarity essential to their usability, researchers from Stanford have proposed ImagineNet, a novel and powerful new tool for interface customisation.
Meet the Living Robot; PigeonBot With Real Feathers; DeepMind Introduces AlphaFold; PyTorch 1.4 Released
Synced Global AI Weekly January 19th
Do Mice Use Distributional RL? DeepMind Says Yes
DeepMind researchers have uncovered parallels between how brains react to dopamine and the trending AI theory of distributional reinforcement learning.
Three Papers in the Eye of the ‘AI Breast Cancer Detection’ Storm
A trio of AI detecting breast cancer papers from Google, NYU, and DeepHealth have triggered huge discussions. What are the breakthroughs? Is AI truly beating radiologists? Where exactly are we right now?
EmotionCues: AI Knows Whether Students Are Paying Attention
A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Harbin Engineering University has adopted facial recognition technology to analyze students’ emotions in the classroom through a visual analytics system called “EmotionCues.”
Fujitsu ‘Actlyzer’ Delivers AI-Powered, Video-Based Behavioural Analysis
The Fujitsu Laboratories and R&D Center behavioural analysis technology identifies suspicious activity by analysing complex combinations of human actions and movements — and does so with minimal training data.
AWS Introduces Open Source AutoML Toolkit ‘AutoGluon’
AutoGluon is designed to be an easy-to-use and easy-to-extend AutoML toolkit, suitable for both machine learning beginners and experts.
Introducing ‘DiffTaichi’ – A Differentiable Programming Language Tailored for Physical Simulation
Researchers have proposed DiffTaichi, a new differentiable programming language based on Taichi and specially tailored for building high-performance differentiable physical simulators.
AI Listens to Panda Love Sounds, Predicts Mating Success
Researchers trained a neural network, CGANet (Convolution module, bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit module, Attention module), to automate the mating success prediction process for pandas based on their vocal sounds.
CES 2020 Roundup: Tech Giants, Future Mobility, Smart Home and More
Synced Global AI Weekly January 12th
Facebook Open-Sources PySlowFast Codebase for Video Understanding
FAIR as now open-sourced PySlowFast, along with a pretrained model library and a pledge to continue adding cutting-edge resources to the project.
PracticalAI 2.0 | ‘Learn, Explore and Build’ ML Models Online
PracticalAI recently released “practicalAI 2.0,” a platform that includes illustrative machine learning lessons in TensorFlow 2.0 + Keras and has garnered over 23k stars on GitHub.
SLM Lab: New RL Research Benchmark & Software Framework
In an effort to sustain RL’s momentum, a team of researchers from Machine Zone, Google Brain, and California Institute of Technology have introduced a new software framework and benchmark for reproducible reinforcement learning research.
Microsoft Releases NNI V1.3 for AutoML Algorithms and Training
To help users design and tune machine learning models, neural network architectures or complex system parameters in an efficient and automatic way, in 2017 Microsoft Research began developing its Neural Network Intelligence (NNI) AutoML toolkit, open-sourcing v1.0 version in 2018.
Microsoft & Peking University FaceShifter: High Fidelity, Occlusion Aware Face Swapping
A new study from Peking University and Microsoft Research Asia proposes a novel two-phase framework, FaceShifter, that aims for high-fidelity and occlusion-aware face exchange.
Facebook AI | Text-Based Generation of Interactive Worlds
Researchers recently proposed a new machine learning method for worldbuilding based on content from LIGHT, a research environment open-sourced by Facebook comprising crowd-sourced game locations, characters, and objects, etc.
Google & UC Berkeley ‘Reformer’ Runs 64K Sequences on One GPU
A recent paper accepted by ICLR 2020 proposes a new transformer model called “Reformer” which achieves impressive performance even when running on only a single GPU.
The Decade of Deep Learning; AI Experts’ Hopes for 2020; AI Beats Doctors at Cancer Diagnosis?
Synced Global AI Weekly January 5th
China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI
The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.
Gaussian Error Linear Unit Activates Neural Networks Beyond ReLU
Results of the various experiments show GELU consistently has the best performance compared with ReLU and ELU, and can be considered a viable alternative to previous nonlinear approaches.
Google Releases ALBERT V2 & Chinese-Language Models
Google has now released a major V2 ALBERT update and open-sourced Chinese ALBERT models.