China’s GPT-3? BAAI Introduces Superscale Intelligence Model …
WEBMar 23, 2021 — The BAAI research team summarizes some of Wu Dao 1.0’s key contributions: Wu Dao – Wen Yuan introduces the open-source Chinese pretraining model (CPM). Based on CPM, the CPM-Distill model reduces language confusion by 38 percent and achieves better results on downstream tasks. Wu Dao – Wen Lan is the first Chinese generic multimodal ...
A Look at Recent Advances in Google Translate | Synced
WEBJun 10, 2020 — Incorporating these new advances, Google’s latest model scores an average five-point increase on BLEU compared to the previous GNMT model — with the class of 50 low-resources languages achieving an average seven-point boost. The researchers note that there is still much room for improvement in the quality of automatic translation for ...
Superior Alternatives to MLPs? Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks …
WEBMay 6, 2024 — Multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) stand as the bedrock of contemporary deep learning architectures, serving as indispensable components in various machine learning applications. Leveraging the expressive power conferred by the universal approximation theorem, MLPs excel in approximating nonlinear functions, embodying a default choice for many tasks. However, despite their widespread adoption ...
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Art Projects | Synced
WEBDec 23, 2020 — AI has become increasingly capable of generating impressive artworks across a wide range of styles and forms, from abstract painting to prose writing, film scores, and even operas. Many researchers spent much of 2020 at home, where, apparently, many explored AI’s creative potential. As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI ...
Microsoft’s BEiT-3 Foundation Model: A ‘Big Convergence of …
WEBAug 30, 2022 — In the new paper Image as a Foreign Language: BEiT Pretraining for All Vision and Vision-Language Tasks, a Microsoft research team presents BEiT-3, a general-purpose state-of-the-art multimodal foundation model for both vision and vision-language tasks that advances the big convergence of backbone …
Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0 | Synced
WEBFeb 22, 2019 — Facebook AI Chief Yann LeCun introduced his now-famous “cake analogy” at NIPS 2016: “If intelligence is a cake, the bulk of the cake is unsupervised learning, the icing on the cake is supervised learning, and the cherry on the cake is reinforcement learning (RL).”The quip rippled across the AI community and confirmed LeCun a strong advocate of unsupervised learning, a machine learning ...
CMU’s DensePose From WiFi: An Affordable, Accessible and …
WEBJan 17, 2023 — DensePose was introduced in 2018 and aims to map human pixels in an RGB image to the 3D surface of the human body. Synced has previously covered additional research on the use of WiFi signals for human pose and action recognition through walls and the associated risks of such technologies. This new paper focuses on a …
Geoffrey Hinton’s Forward-Forward Algorithm Charts a New Path …
WEBDec 8, 2022 — The FF algorithm is inspired by Boltzmann machines (Hinton and Sejnowski, 1986) and Noise Contrastive Estimation (Gutmann and Hyvärinen, 2010). It aims to replace the forward and backward passes of backpropagation with two forward passes: a positive pass that operates on real data and adjusts weights “to …
Are Patches All You Need? New Study Proposes Patches Are …
WEBOct 12, 2021 — Vision transformer architectures (ViTs) have achieved compelling performance across many computer vision tasks, often outperforming classical convolutional architectures. A question arises: Is the impressive performance of ViTs due to their powerful transformer architecture and attention mechanisms, or is there some other factor that gives ViTs their edge? In the paper Patches Are All You Need,
AI-Powered ‘Genderify’ Platform Shut Down After Bias-Based …
WEBJul 30, 2020 — Comments 31. Just hours after making waves and triggering a backlash on social media, Genderify — an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address — has been completely shut down. Launched last week on the new-product showcase …