Chinese tech giant Tencent has proposed to acquire all of the Sogou’s outstanding ordinary shares for a cash price of US$9 per share. | Continue reading
New research from UK based AI company and research lab DeepMind is enabling AI agents to perceive dynamic real-world environments more like humans do. | Continue reading
Researchers introduce a joint Spatial-Temporal Transformer Network (STTN) to tackle such video inpainting challenges. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a new technique for self-supervised training of convolutional networks used for image classification and other computer vision tasks. | Continue reading
Google researchers propose an “AutoML-Zero” approach designed to automatically search for machine learning (ML) algorithms from scratch, requiring minimal human expertise or input. | Continue reading
A team of Google researchers recently proposed a novel “complete and label” domain adaptation approach. | Continue reading
This paper carefully engineers artificial-language learning experiments to replicate sources of information infants learn from and under what conditions. | Continue reading
NVIDIA researchers propose a novel vid2vid framework that utilizes all past generated frames during rendering. | Continue reading
Microsoft announced it would spin off its chatbot business XiaoIce, with all associated technologies licensed to a newly formed independent company. | Continue reading
NeurIPS desk-rejects (papers passed over without review) has become “a super noisy process,” complains a post in the Reddit Machine Learning group. | Continue reading
TaBERT-powered neural semantic parsers showed performance improvements on the challenging benchmark WikiTableQuestions and demonstrated competitive performance on the text-to-SQL dataset Spider. | Continue reading
Researchers proposed a Taylor Expansion Policy Optimization (TayPO) framework that combines two leading algorithmic improvement methods. | Continue reading
The acceptance rate of 21.8 percent is slightly lower than 2019’s 22.6 percent (774 accepted papers from 3,424 submissions). | Continue reading
To promote fairer ML systems, the team introduced a collaborative causal theory formation that incorporates diverse stakeholder perspectives for discovering and considering societal context. | Continue reading
The post highlights perceived peer-review problems, the reproducibility crisis, and ethics and diversity issues. | Continue reading
Researchers propose a neuro-symbolic hybrid approach to address the challenge of creativity in generative art. | Continue reading
Organizers of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) today announced their Best Paper Awards. | Continue reading
The proposed method generalizes well across various degrees of eye openness, different identities, and combinations of eye and lower facial expressions. | Continue reading
There are one trillion synapses in a cubic centimeter of the brain. If there is such a thing as General AI, it would probably require one trillion synapses. | Continue reading
Leading US universities engaged in AI research have joined tech giants in backing legislation aimed at establishing a roadmap for the creation of a national AI research cloud. | Continue reading
Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit from Twitter after getting involved in a long and often acrimonious dispute regarding racial biases in AI. | Continue reading
Synced presents 13 comprehensive case studies and 74 use cases in five main application scenarios to demonstrate how AI has assisted and can continue to assist in efforts to roll back COVID-19. | Continue reading
A team of researchers from New York University, Flatiron Institute and Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a new method that extracts symbolic representations from deep learning models by in… | Continue reading
The researchers introduce sinusoidal representation networks (SIRENs) as a method for leveraging periodic activation functions for implicit neural representations. | Continue reading
DeepMind researchers released several new models and a tutorial for their dm_control software stack for physics-based simulation and reinforcement learning environments using MuJoCo physics. | Continue reading
Google Brain in Zürich and DeepMind London researchers believe one of the world’s most popular image databases may need a makeover. | Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement today during his keynote speech opening the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2020). | Continue reading
GitHub recently introduced a series of free and open-source GitHub Actions that merge data science and machine learning workflows with a software development workflow. | Continue reading
Large transformer-based language models trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent images without the use of labels. | Continue reading
Researchers have proposed a novel framework that learns fast and dynamic character interactions. | Continue reading
Covariant last month secured a US$40 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures to push its total funding to US$67 million. | Continue reading
The 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) has announced its best paper awards. | Continue reading
Facebook and Kaggle are facing an online backlash after the apparent winners of the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) were disqualified. | Continue reading
Advanced computer vision technology is supercharging virtual and augmented reality, one of the latest milestones in video game design. | Continue reading
Google AI researchers report on recent efforts and progress in the field of language translation, especially with resource-poor languages. | Continue reading
DeepMind has developed EATS, a generative model trained adversarially in an end-to-end manner that achieves performance comparable to SOTA models. | Continue reading
ACM SIGGRAPH has honoured MIT CSAIL postdoctoral researcher Li Tzu-Mao with its 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis Differentiable Visual Computing. | Continue reading
In the seminal 1996 paper Light Field Rendering, Levoy and Hanrahan describe a representation for light fields that allows for both efficient creation and display. | Continue reading
CMU and Technion Researchers recently introduced a new system, Penrose, that can turn complex mathematical notations into various styles of simple diagrams. | Continue reading
Researchers have introduced a local-to-global approach that can generate lifelike human portraits from relatively rudimentary sketches. | Continue reading
Zurich-based student and aspiring full-stack software engineer Vincent Dörig has taken LaTeX to the website level with his GitHub project LaTeX.css. | Continue reading
How much is this going to cost? And what are the main factors affecting that price tag? | Continue reading
A recent Google Brain paper looks into Google’s hugely successful transformer network — BERT — and how it represents linguistic information internally. | Continue reading
A new paper from the University of Washington Seattle and the University of California, Berkeley looks at saddle points on Riemannian Manifolds. In this article Synced takes a deep dive into this i… | Continue reading
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 … | Continue reading
In an effort to benchmark deep learning on smartphones in the Android ecosystem, researchers from the ETH Zurich Computer Vision Lab last year developed an AI Benchmark application to measure the A… | Continue reading
The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) has a long history and a great reputation in Operating Systems (OS) research. This year SOSP was held in Huntsville, a charming town located… | Continue reading
A new paper from researchers at the University of Bristol, Telecomm ParisTech and Sorbonne University introduces a multi-layer, silicone “SkinOn” membrane that mimics the layers of human skin. | Continue reading