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AIhub monthly digest: November 2021 – avoiding hype, musical dissonance, and AI thanksgiving
Lucy Smith
30 Nov 2021
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
A first-principles theory of neural network generalization
BAIR blog
22 Nov 2021
Find out more about research trying to shed light on the workings of deep neural networks.
Compression, transduction, and creation: a unified framework for evaluating natural language generation
ML@CMU
18 Nov 2021
Our framework classifies language generation tasks into compression, transduction, and creation.
Natural language processing model for African languages
University of Waterloo
17 Nov 2021
AfriBERTa model enables computers to analyse text in African languages for many useful tasks.
Machine learning for climate science and Earth observation – a webinar from Climate Change AI
Lucy Smith
16 Nov 2021
Hear from Maike Sonnewald and Gustau Camps-Valls, as they talk about trustworthy AI for climate analysis and physics-aware machine learning.
Making RL tractable by learning more informative reward functions: example-based control, meta-learning, and normalized maximum likelihood
BAIR blog
15 Nov 2021
This article presents MURAL, a method for learning uncertainty-aware rewards for RL.
Analysing ice hockey videos with deep learning
University of Waterloo
12 Nov 2021
Identifying players by their sweater numbers using multi-task learning.
PICO: Pragmatic compression for human-in-the-loop decision-making
BAIR blog
05 Nov 2021
In this post, we outline a pragmatic compression algorithm called PICO.
Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: October 2021
Lucy Smith
01 Nov 2021
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during October 2021.
Using imaging and machine learning tools to analyse features of plant leaves
University of Illinois
29 Oct 2021
Scientists have developed tools to discover attributes that contribute to water-use efficiency in crop plants during photosynthesis.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: October 2021 – life on land, foundation models and Beethoven’s 10th
Lucy Smith
27 Oct 2021
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Unsolved ML safety problems
BAIR blog
26 Oct 2021
We provide a new roadmap for ML Safety and aim to refine the technical problems that the field needs to address.
What bird is singing? Merlin Bird ID app offers instant answers
Cornell University
19 Oct 2021
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s free Merlin Bird ID app can identify bird sounds.
Distilling neural networks into wavelet models using interpretations
BAIR blog
18 Oct 2021
We propose a method which distills information from a trained DNN into a wavelet transform.
Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridges
The Conversation
12 Oct 2021
Using photographs and computer vision techniques to automatically detect the presence of bats on bridges.
How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony
The Conversation
08 Oct 2021
Find out more about the role of artificial intelligence in this project.
New digital tools to track illegal wildlife trade online
Horizon
07 Oct 2021
Using data from social media platforms in combination with machine learning methods to identify what species and wildlife products are traded online and what are the motives behind the trade.
AI tools for assessing zero-deforestation commitments in Vietnam
Louis Reymondin and Andres Perez-Uribe
06 Oct 2021
The Coffee Vision project is developing a smart monitoring tool to support the certification of sustainable coffee plots in Vietnam.
Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: September 2021
Lucy Smith
01 Oct 2021
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during September 2021.
What can I do here? Learning new skills by imagining visual affordances
BAIR blog
30 Sep 2021
Can we use an analogous strategy to a child learning in a robotic learning system?
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: September 2021 – AI100 report released, Tutorial Tuesdays, and haikus
Lucy Smith
28 Sep 2021
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Reducing the cost of localized named entity recognition
COMPRISE
27 Sep 2021
How are the COMPRISE project handling named entity recognition in their voice interaction technology?
The limitations of limited context for constituency parsing
ML@CMU
24 Sep 2021
We consider the representational power of two important frameworks for constituency parsing.
AI as an accelerator of the energy transition, opportunities for a carbon-free energy system
Mathijs de Weerdt
23 Sep 2021
Find out how the Netherlands aim to take major steps towards increasing renewable energy production and increased electrification.
Allocating fair shares of land
Edith Elkind
21 Sep 2021
We consider the problem of fair land allocation where, in addition to geometric constraints on the shapes of the individual pieces, we require the pieces to be separated.
Life below water focus series round-up: ocean ecosystems, marine litter and autonomous vehicles
Lucy Smith
17 Sep 2021
We summarise our focus series and highlight further interesting research in the field.
“Connection with the past”: using AI to help find and preserve Europe’s historical smells
Horizon
09 Sep 2021
An ambitious project aims to investigate how scents defined communities in the past.
Strategic instrumental variable regression: recovering causal relationships from strategic responses
ML@CMU
08 Sep 2021
How can we infer causal relationships in data while employing a decision-making model?
Researchers develop real-time lyric generation technology to inspire song writing
University of Waterloo
06 Sep 2021
LyricJam, a real-time system that uses machine learning to generate lyric lines for live instrumental music.
Energy as a fundamental right
Finding the optimum amount of free electricity to tackle energy poverty.
Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: August 2021
Lucy Smith
01 Sep 2021
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during August 2021.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: August 2021 – IJCAI, RoboCupJunior, and happy birthday to arXiv
Lucy Smith
31 Aug 2021
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
#IJCAI2021 invited talks round-up 2: system two deep learning, and knowledge representation for generalisation
Lucy Smith
27 Aug 2021
In the second in our series of summaries of the invited talks from IJCAI2021, we cover the talks by Yoshua Bengio and Michael Thielscher.
#IJCAI2021 invited talks round-up 1: fairness in multiwinner voting, and combining AI and robotics to augment human abilities
Lucy Smith
25 Aug 2021
In the first in our series of summaries of the invited talks from IJCAI2021, we cover the talks by Edith Elkind and Masahiro Fujita.
Universal weakly supervised segmentation by pixel-to-segment contrastive learning
BAIR blog
17 Aug 2021
Can a machine learn from a few labeled pixels to predict every pixel in a new image?
Machine learning technique to help keep your personal data your own
Pursuit, University of Melbourne
16 Aug 2021
A new machine learning model puts ‘noise’ into personal images to stop artificial intelligence programs from exploiting and misusing your data.
