Will transformers revolutionize computer vision like they did with natural language processing? That’s one of the major research questions investigated by computer vision scientists in 2020. The first results indicate that transformers achieve very promising results on image recognition tasks. Beyond transformers in vision applications, we also noticed a continuous … [Read more...] about Novel Computer Vision Research Papers From 2020
Research Summaries
The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents
2020 is the breakthrough year for conversational agents. First, Google’s chatbot Meena and Facebook’s chatbot Blender demonstrated that dialog agents can achieve close to human-level performance in certain tasks. Then, OpenAI’s GPT-3 model made lots of people wonder whether Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is already here. While we are still a long way off true AGI, … [Read more...] about The Latest Breakthroughs in Conversational AI Agents
Best Research Papers From ICML 2020
This year’s virtual ICML conference hosted 10800+ attendees from 75 countries. Apparently, the virtual format makes big research conferences such as ICML more accessible to the AI community all over the world. With almost 5000 research papers submitted to ICML 2020 and an acceptance rate of 21.8%, a total of 1088 papers were presented at the conference. As usual, the … [Read more...] about Best Research Papers From ICML 2020
Best Research Papers From ACL 2020
ACL is the leading conference in the field of natural language processing (NLP), covering a broad spectrum of research areas in computational linguistics. Due to the COVID-19 risks, ACL 2020 took place 100% virtually, similar to other big academic conferences of this year. However, as always, it was the best place to learn about the latest NLP research trends and … [Read more...] about Best Research Papers From ACL 2020
Reformer, Longformer, and ELECTRA: Key Updates To Transformer Architecture In 2020
The leading pre-trained language models demonstrate remarkable performance on different NLP tasks, making them a much-welcomed tool for a number of applications, including sentiment analysis, chatbots, text summarization, and so on. However, good performance usually comes at the cost of enormous computational resources that are not accessible by most researchers and business … [Read more...] about Reformer, Longformer, and ELECTRA: Key Updates To Transformer Architecture In 2020
The Highest-Trending Research Papers From CVPR 2020
CVPR 2020 is yet another big AI conference that takes place 100% virtually this year. But regardless of the format, the conference still showcases the most interesting cutting-edge research ideas in computer vision and image generation. Here we’ve picked up the research papers that started trending within the AI research community months before their actual presentation at … [Read more...] about The Highest-Trending Research Papers From CVPR 2020
Breakthrough Research In Reinforcement Learning From 2019
Reinforcement learning (RL) continues to be less valuable for business applications than supervised learning, and even unsupervised learning. It is successfully applied only in areas where huge amounts of simulated data can be generated, like robotics and games. However, many experts recognize RL as a promising path towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), or true … [Read more...] about Breakthrough Research In Reinforcement Learning From 2019
Top 12 AI Ethics Research Papers Introduced In 2019
As the importance of ethical considerations in AI applications is being recognized not only by ethicists and researchers but also by industry tech leaders, AI ethics research is moving from general definitions of fairness and bias to more in-depth analysis. The research papers introduced in 2019 define comprehensive terminology for communicating about ML fairness, go from … [Read more...] about Top 12 AI Ethics Research Papers Introduced In 2019
10 Cutting-Edge Research Papers In Computer Vision From 2019
UPDATE: We’ve also summarized the top 2020 Computer Vision research papers. Today we can see how computer vision (CV) systems are revolutionizing whole industries and business functions with successful applications in healthcare, security, transportation, retail, banking, agriculture, and more. In 2019, we saw lots of novel architectures and approaches that … [Read more...] about 10 Cutting-Edge Research Papers In Computer Vision From 2019
10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019
Conversational AI is becoming an integral part of business practice across industries. More companies are adopting the advantages chatbots bring to customer service, sales, and marketing. Even though chatbots are becoming a “must-have” asset for leading businesses, their performance is still very far from human. Researchers from major research institutions and tech leaders … [Read more...] about 10 Important Research Papers In Conversational AI From 2019