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Stanford AIStanford AI

Selective Classification Can Magnify Disparities Across Groups

Selective classification can improve average accuracy but fail to improve or even hurt accuracy in certain subgroups of the data, highlighting potential failure modes of using selective classification in practice.

10/13/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Tiny Letter from Kafka

Discussing the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka and providing a sneak peek into its functionality.

10/13/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Stacking our way to more general robots

Introducing RGB-Stacking as a benchmark for vision-based robotic manipulation and exploring how to enable robots to interact with a diverse range of objects.

10/11/2021
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Multiple Choice Normalization in LM Evaluation

Exploring the prevalent normalization methods for evaluating multiple choice tasks on autoregressive language models like GPT-3/Neo/J.

10/11/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Stacking our way to more general robots

Exploring how to enable robots to better understand the interactions of objects with diverse geometries for more generalisable and useful robots.

10/11/2021
Stanford AIStanford AI

Stanford AI Lab Papers at ICCV 2021

This technical blogpost provides a list of accepted papers from the Stanford AI Lab that will be presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), with information about the authors, contacts, keywords, and links to papers, videos, and websites.

10/8/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Predicting gene expression with AI

Predicting gene expression using AI and the Enformer architecture to improve understanding of genetic instructions and their influence on human health and development.

10/4/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Predicting gene expression with AI

Using AI to predict gene expression and uncovering the instructions within non-coding DNA sequences.

10/4/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Nowcasting the next hour of rain

Advancements in nowcasting the next hour of rain using state-of-the-art generative models and machine learning.

9/29/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Nowcasting the next hour of rain

This blogpost discusses the research and advancement in Precipitation Nowcasting, specifically focusing on predicting rain within the next 1-2 hours using a state-of-the-art model and AI technology.

9/29/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

Summarizing books with human feedback

Transforming book summaries with human input for enhanced comprehension

9/23/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Is Curiosity All You Need? On the Utility of Emergent Behaviours from Curious Exploration

Exploring the utility of emergent behaviors from curious exploration and the potential for skill retention in unsupervised reinforcement learning

9/17/2021