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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.
A unifying, game-theoretic framework for imitation learning
ML@CMU
13 Aug 2021
In this post we explore imitation learning and consider online, offline, and interactive methods.
The surprising effectiveness of PPO in cooperative multi-agent games
BAIR blog
06 Aug 2021
A study of cooperative multi-agent tasks, in which a group of agents is trying to optimize a shared reward function.
Protecting user privacy with voice conversion
COMPRISE
04 Aug 2021
The COMPRISE project team discuss how to preserve privacy in automatic speech recognition systems.
Artificial intelligence speeds land-use classification
EPFL
03 Aug 2021
Method can distinguish complex land categories using infrared images and colour photos.
Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: July 2021
Lucy Smith
02 Aug 2021
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during July 2021.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: July 2021 – ICML, protein folding for all, and AI Song Contest winner announced
Lucy Smith
29 Jul 2021
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Use of AI to fight COVID-19 risks harming “disadvantaged groups”, experts warn
University of Cambridge
28 Jul 2021
Rapid deployment of AI to tackle coronavirus must still go through ethical checks and balances.
#ICML2021 invited talk round-up 2: randomized controlled trials, encoding speech, and molecular science
Lucy Smith
27 Jul 2021
In our second round-up, we summarise the talks from Esther Duflo, Edward Chang and Cecilia Clementi.
Document grounded generation
ML@CMU
26 Jul 2021
A method for generating text when given a context and a source document.
#ICML2021 invited talk round-up 1: drug discovery and cryospheric science
Lucy Smith
21 Jul 2021
In this post, we summarise the first two invited talks from ICML, given by Daphne Koller and Xiao Cunde.
