‘SketchTransfer’ Draws Understanding From Detail Invariance
A team of researchers from Mila and Google Brain believe simple pencil sketches could help AI models generalize to a better understanding of unseen images.
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Happy AI New Year! Global Researchers Reflect on 2019, Talk Trends for 2020
To welcome 2020 with some fresh AI perspectives, Synced spoke with global researchers from Google Brain, Sony AI, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial (formerly known as Alipay) and other organizations.
Vision-Based AI Model Solves Sudoku at a Glance
Although “Sudoku“ grid-based number puzzles are no match for today’s artificial intelligence systems, a novel approach to the challenge is trending on GitHub due to its practical integration of computer vision technologies.
2019 in Review: 10 Brilliant AI Apps
As 2019 comes to an end, Synced takes a look back at the year’s bumper crop of AI-powered products, spotlighting 10 new apps that we believe present brilliant ideas, innovative design and unique functionalities.
Tencent AI ‘Juewu’ Beats Top MOBA Gamers
In a recent paper Tencent AI Lab researchers present a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach to handle the complex action control of agents in MOBA 1v1 games.
2019 In Review: 10 Open-Sourced AI Datasets
In the conclusion to our year-end series, Synced spotlights ten datasets that were open-sourced in 2019.
Facebook PointRend: Rendering Image Segmentation
Facebook AI Research team has introduced a new “point-based rendering” neural network module with an iterative subdivision algorithm that can integrate SOTA image segmentation models.
Deep Learning Pioneers Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio Elected as AAAI-20 Fellows
The AAAI has announced the election of ten AAAI 2020 Fellows — including AI pioneers and 2018 Turing Award Winners Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio.
CMU Senior Develops World’s First Classical Chinese Programming Language
Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Lingdong Huang has developed ‘Wenyan-Lang,’ a programming language based on Chinese hanzi characters and the wenyan classical Chinese grammar system.
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｜Amii, Mila, and Vector Researchers Discuss AI in Canada and More
At the NeurIPS 2019 conference CIFAR introduced its new AI Chairs and a new grant program, and hosted the panel discussion Foundations in Machine Learning, where researchers from Mila, Amii and the Vector brainstormed on their work, looked at machine learning trends and offered advice to students.
12-in-1: Facebook AI’s New Framework Tackles Multiple Vision-and-Language Tasks
The model reduces the number of parameters from some 3 billion to 270 million while improving task performance by an average of 2.05 points.
2019 in Review: 10 AI Failures
Synced 10 AI Failures of 2019
Visual Dialogue State Tracking Improves Question Generation
Researchers from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication have introduced a novel visual dialogue state tracking (VDST) model that’s got pretty good at the similar, visual dialogue guessing game “GuessWhat?!”
PyTorch Deep Learning Framework: Speed + Usability
A new paper from original PyTorch developers explores the inspiration behind the library, and makes the case for its unique marriage of speed and usability.
NeurIPS 2019 Roundup: Outstanding Papers, Featured Talks, Facts and Figures
Synced Global AI Weekly December 15th
Challenge On! Tech Giants Unite to Fight Deepfakes With AI
At NeurIPS 2019 this week Facebook unveiled its Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC), along with a new deepfake-specific dataset containing more than 100,000 videos.
NeurIPS 2019 | The Numbers
The world’s most prestigious machine learning conference wraps up in Vancouver this weekend. Synced takes a look at the numbers associated with NeurIPS 2019.
AI Reimagines Ancient Chinese Poetry
Due to the nuanced character choices and other unique literal and aesthetical characteristics, automatic generation of Chinese poetry is challenging for AI, and high-quality poems can hardly be generated by end-to-end methods.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CAH Black Friday AI Challenge; AI-Generated Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes; Go Master Lee Sedol Retires Because AI
Synced Global AI Weekly December 1st
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do Human Gamers Stand a Chance Against Trash-Talking AI Bots?
Synced Global AI Weekly November 24th
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.
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.
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.
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.