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LLM distillation demystified: a complete guide
LLM distillation isolates task-specific LLM performance and mirrors it in a smaller format—creating faster and cheaper performance.
February 13, 2024
Matt Casey
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AI alignment made simple: innovative solutions for businesses
AI alignment ensures that AI systems align with human values, ethics, and policies. Here’s a primer on how developers can build safer AI.
June 27, 2024
Fred Sala
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RAG: LLM performance boost with retrieval-augmented generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables LLMs to produce more accurate responses by finding and injecting relevant context. Learn how.
August 15, 2024
Matt Casey

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Data extraction from SEC filings (10-Ks) with Snorkel Flow
Leveraging Snorkel Flow to extract critical data from annual quarterly reports (10-Ks) Introduction It can surprise those who have never logged into EDGAR how much information is available in annual reports from public companies. You can find tactical details like the names of senior leadership, top shareholders, and more strategic information like earnings, risk factors, and the company strategy and vision. Warren
May 10, 2022
Jonathan Dahlberg
AI in cybersecurity an introduction and case studies
An introduction to AI in cybersecurity with real-world case studies in a Fortune 500 organization and a government agency Despite all the recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applied to a vast array of application areas and use cases, success in AI in cybersecurity remains elusive. The key component to building AI/ML applications is training data, which
May 5, 2022
Nic Acton
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Accelerating AI in healthcare
How can data-centric AI speeds your end-to-end healthcare AI development and deployment Healthcare is a field that is awash in data, and managing it all is complicated and expensive. As an industry, it benefits tremendously from the ongoing development of machine learning and data-centric AI. The potential benefits of AI integration in healthcare can be broken down into two categories:
April 29, 2022
Team Snorkel
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Bill of materials for responsible AI: collaborative labeling
In our previous posts, we discussed how explainable AI is crucial to ensure the transparency and auditability of your AI deployments and how trustworthy AI adoption and its successful integration into our country’s critical infrastructure and systems are paramount. In this post, we dive into making trustworthy and responsible AI possible with Snorkel Flow, the data-centric AI platform for government and federal agencies. Collaborative labeling and
April 28, 2022
Alexis Zumwalt
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Explainability through provenance and lineage
In our previous post, we discussed how trustworthy AI adoption and its successful integration into our country’s critical infrastructure and systems are paramount. In this post, we discuss how explainability in AI is crucial to ensure the transparency and auditability of your AI deployments. Outputs from trustworthy AI applications must be explainable in understandable terms based on the design and implementation of
April 19, 2022
Alexis Zumwalt
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Introduction to trustworthy AI
The adoption of trustworthy AI and its successful integration into our country’s most critical systems is paramount to achieving the goal of employing AI applications to accelerate economic prosperity and national security. However, traditional approaches to developing AI applications suffer from a critical flaw that leads to significant ethics and governance concerns. Specifically, AI today relies on massive, hand-labeled training datasets
April 7, 2022
Alexis Zumwalt
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How to better govern ML models? Hint: auditable training data
ML models will always have some level of bias. Rather than relying on black-box algorithms, how can we make the entire AI development workflow more auditable? How do we build applications where bias can be easily detected and quickly managed? Today, most organizations focus their model governance efforts on investigating model performance and the bias within the predictions. Data science
April 6, 2022
Jonathan Dahlberg
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Tips for using a data-centric AI approach
The future of data-centric AI talk series Background An AI system consists of two parts: the model— algorithm or some code—and data. The dominant paradigm in machine-learning researchers has been for most data scientists, including myself, to download a fixed dataset and iterate on the model. That this has become conventional is a tribute to how successful this model-centric approach
March 9, 2022
Team Snorkel
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Resilient enterprise AI application development
Using a data-centric approach to capture the best of rule-based systems and ML models for enterprise AI One of the biggest challenges to making AI practical for the enterprise is keeping the AI application relevant (and therefore valuable) in the face of ever-changing input data and evolving business objectives. Practitioners typically use one of two approaches to build these AI applications:
March 3, 2022
Arjun Prakash
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How AI can be used to rapidly respond to information warfare in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Proliferating web technology has contributed to information warfare in recent conflicts. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a significant role in stemming disinformation campaigns, cyber-attacks, and informing diplomacy in the rapidly evolving situation in Ukraine. Snorkel AI is dedicated to supporting the National Security community and other enterprise organizations with state-of-the-art AI technology. We see this as our responsibility in the
February 28, 2022
Nic Acton
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Charlie Greenbacker
How Genentech extracted information for clinical trial analytics with Snorkel Flow
Genentech, a global biotech leader and member of the Roche Group, leveraged Snorkel Flow to extract critical information from lengthy clinical trial protocol (CTP) pdf documents. They built AI applications that used NER, entity linking, text extraction, and classification models to determine inclusion/ exclusion criteria and to analyze Schedules of Assessments. Genentech’s team achieved 95-99% model accuracy by using Snorkel
February 26, 2022
Team Snorkel
Augmenting the clinical trial design process with information extraction
The future of data-centric AI talk series Background Michael DAndrea is the Principal Data Scientist at Genentech. He earned his MBA from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Computing and Education from Columbia University. He currently works on using unstructured data sources for clinical trial analytics and his team is partnered with the Stanford “AI For Health” initiative as
February 22, 2022
Team Snorkel
Building AI Applications Collaboratively Using Data-centric AI
The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Roshni Malani received her PhD in Software Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, and has previously worked on Siri at Apple and as a founding engineer for Google Photos. She gave a presentation at the Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference in September 2021. Her presentation is below, lightly edited
January 14, 2022
Team Snorkel
Design Principles for Iteratively Building AI Applications
Enabling iterative development workflows with Snorkel Flow’s Application Studio. Consider this scenario— we’re AI engineers, and we’re building a social media monitoring application to track the sentiment of Fortune 500 company mentions in the news.
November 8, 2021
Vincent Sunn Chen
Building a Successful AI Startup
ScienceTalks with Saam Motamedi We at Snorkel AI have received many requests from data scientists and machine learning engineers who aspire to be founders, where do they start and how should they get started on their entrepreneurial journey? We genuinely believe that data scientists and machine learning engineers will build the next generation of mega-enterprises. Over the summer, we’ve recorded
October 18, 2021
Team Snorkel