Video of the ACM Tech Talk webinar I gave on 2018/07/11.

ACM says this is one of the most popular Tech Talks ever.

https://youtu.be/zikdDOzOpxY

Hierarchical Decision Making by Generating and Following Natural Language Instructions

“Experiments show that models using natural language as a latent variable significantly outperform models that directly imitate human actions.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00744

Counterfactual Story Reasoning and Generation”, presents the TimeTravel dataset that tests causal reasoning capabilities over natural language narratives.

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04076
Code+Data:
https://github.com/qkaren/Counterfactual-StoryRW

What Kind of Language Is Hard to Language-Model?

Mielke et al.: https://lnkd.in/eDUGmse

#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #NLP

CvxNets: Learnable Convex Decomposition

Boyang Deng, Kyle Genova, Soroosh Yazdani, Sofien Bouaziz, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrea Tagliasacchi : https://lnkd.in/eGUqxjz

Facebook Research at Interspeech 2019

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/facebook-research-at-interspeech-2019/

Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition with Time-Depth Separable Convolutions

https://research.fb.com/publications/sequence-to-sequence-speech-recognition-with-time-depth-separable-convolutions/

Unsupervised Singing Voice Conversion

https://research.fb.com/publications/unsupervised-singing-voice-conversion/

The largest publicly available language model: CTRL has 1.6B parameters and can be guided by control codes for style, content, and task-specific behavior.


code: https://github.com/salesforce/ctrl

article: https://einstein.ai/presentations/ctrl.pdf

https://blog.einstein.ai/introducing-a-conditional-transformer-language-model-for-controllable-generation/

What makes a good conversation?
How controllable attributes affect human judgments

A great post on conversation scoring.

Link:
http://www.abigailsee.com/2019/08/13/what-makes-a-good-conversation.html
Paper:
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1170

#NLP #NLU #DL

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🔹 Python examples of popular machine learning algorithms with interactive Jupyter demos and math being explained👌

📌 https://github.com/trekhleb/homemade-machine-learning

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NVIDIA Announces TensorRT 6; Breaks 10 millisecond barrier for BERT-Large

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt6-breaks-bert-record/

🔍 DeepPavlov: An open-source library for end-to-end dialogue systems and chatbots

article: https://medium.com/tensorflow/deeppavlov-an-open-source-library-for-end-to-end-dialog-systems-and-chatbots-31cf26849e37

research: https://colab.research.google.com/github/deepmipt/dp_notebooks/blob/master/DP_tf.ipynb

code: https://github.com/deepmipt/DeepPavlov

⭐️Fine-Tuning GPT-2 from Human Preferences

#OpenAI team fine-tuned 774M parameters model to achieve better scores in #summarization and stylistic text continuation in terms of human understanding.

Article definately worths reading (approx 15 min.) with Challenges and lessons learned section and examples.

Link: https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08593
Code: https://github.com/openai/lm-human-preferences

#NLP #NLU #finetuning

🗣 Using AI-generated questions to train NLP systems

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/research-in-brief-unsupervised-question-answering-by-cloze-translation/

code:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/UnsupervisedQA

paper:
https://research.fb.com/publications/unsupervised-question-answering-by-cloze-translation/

Neural networks in NLP are vulnerable to adversarially crafted inputs.

We show that they can be trained to become certifiably robust against input perturbations such as typos and synonym substitution in text classification:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01492

Depth Hints are complementary depth suggestions which improve monocular depth estimation algorithms trained from stereo pairs

code:
https://github.com/nianticlabs/depth-hints

paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09051

dataset :
https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/resources/datasets/SceneFlowDatasets.en.html

​​Light regression analysis of some Microsoft employees salary distrubution

How basic knowledge of regression and couple of graphs can make an information look much better and clear.

Link: https://onezero.medium.com/leak-of-microsoft-salaries-shows-fight-for-higher-compensation-3010c589b41e

#regression #simple #salary #infographic

100,000 FACES GENERATED BY AI FREE FOR ANY USE

https://generated.photos/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wSy4TVjSvtXeRQ6Zr8W98YbSuZXrZrgY

​​FSGAN: Subject Agnostic Face Swapping and Reenactment

New paper on #DeepFakes creation

YouTube demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duo-tHbSdMk
Link:
https://nirkin.com/fsgan/
ArXiV:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05932.pdf

#FaceSwap #DL #Video #CV

Torchdata is PyTorch oriented library focused on data processing and input pipelines in general

https://github.com/szymonmaszke/torchdata

Sarbazi, M., Sadeghzadeh, M., & Mir Abedini, S. J. (2019). Improving resource allocation in software-defined networks using clustering. Cluster Computing.
doi:10.1007/s10586-019-02985-3

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