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Foundation Model Summit Sessions Show Challenges and Promise

Twelve speakers shared their insights into the present and future of foundation models January event; see what they had to say.

March 7, 2023

Foundation Models 101: a guide with essential FAQs

Foundation Models (FMs), such as GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion, mark the beginning of a new era in machine learning and artificial intelligence. What are they and how will they impact your business? Find out in our guide.

March 1, 2023

Combining foundation models with weak supervision

Combining foundation model outputs with weak supervision yields faster model development and requires fewer ground truth labels.

March 1, 2023

Operationalizing knowledge for data-centric AI

Snorkel AI CEO and Co-Founder Alex Ratner’s introduction to data-centric AI from the 2022 Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference.

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February 27, 2023

How a Brown professor sharpened and shrunk GPT-3

Brown professor Stephen Bach tells Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner about his research into improving foundation models like GPT-3 with curated data.

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February 21, 2023

Cleanlab CEO shows automatic data-cleansing tools

Cleanlab Co-Founder and CEO Curtis Northcutt presents his company’s automatic, universal and open-source tools to quickly clean data sets.

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February 17, 2023

NASA ML Lead on its WorldView citizen scientist no-code tool

Anirudh Koul is Machine Learning Lead for the NASA Frontier Development Lab and the Head of Machine Learning Sciences at Pinterest. He presented at Snorkel AI’s 2022 Future of Data Centric AI (FDCAI) Conference.

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February 6, 2023

Accuracy top concern for Foundation Model adoption—Poll

Most poll respondents at Snorkel AI’s recent Foundation Model Virtual Summit named questionable accuracy as the biggest barrier preventing them from getting organizational value from Foundation Models.

January 31, 2023

How Foundation Models bolster programmatic labeling

Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner interviews Mayee Chen about how Liger improves the effectiveness of programmatic labeling through foundation model embeddings.

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January 26, 2023

Unmasking Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning

Hamsa Bastani presented a summary of her and her co-authors’ ongoing work using machine learning and Snorkel AI’s tools to detect and track activities that are associated with a high risk for global sex trafficking.

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January 20, 2023

Prompting and weak supervision to build better, smaller models

Snorkel AI co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner recently interviewed several Snorkel researchers about their published academic papers. In this video, Alex talks with Ryan Smith, Senior Applied Scientist at Snorkel, about the work he did on using foundation models to build compact, deployable, and effective models.

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January 19, 2023

FM Summit shows Foundation Model hurdles and potential

Snorkel AI held its Foundation Model Summit Jan 17, bringing together 12 presenters and over 600 attendees at 10 virtual sessions. The event drew registrants from across many sectors, including the tech industry, healthcare, and financial services.

January 18, 2023

Contrastive Learning boosts Foundation Model specialization

Snorkel AI co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner talks with Ananya Kumar about the work he did on improving the effectiveness of foundation models by using contrastive learning, image augmentations, and labeled subsamples.

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January 13, 2023

Ask Me Anything approach bolsters foundation models

Researcher Simran Arora tells Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner how she improved foundation model effectiveness by using “Ask Me Anything”-style questions.

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January 4, 2023

Combining human and artificial intelligence with human-in-the-loop ML | FDCAI

More components in an ML lifecycle are designed to run on autopilot, but some tasks require human-in-the-loop ML, an active research topic that has seen an increasing number of publications in the last 10 years.

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December 28, 2022
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