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A primer on active learning presented by Josh McGrath. Machine learning whiteboard (MLW) open-source series This video defines active learning, explores variants and design decisions made within active learning pipelines, and compares it to related methods. It contains references to some seminal papers in machine learning that we find instructive. Check out the full video below or on Youtube. Additionally, a

Utilizing large language models as zero-shot and few-shot learners with Snorkel for better quality and more flexibility Large language models (LLMs) such as BERT, T5, GPT-3, and others are exceptional resources for applying general knowledge to your specific problem. Being able to frame a new task as a question for a language model (zero-shot learning), or showing it a few

We are honored to be part of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022, where Snorkel AI founders and researchers will be presenting five papers on data-centric AI topics The field of artificial intelligence moves fast!  This is a world we are intimately familiar with at Snorkel AI, having spun out of academia in 2019. For over half a

The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Chelsea Finn is an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, whose research has been widely recognized, including in the New York Times and MIT Technology Review. In this talk, Chelsea talks about algorithms that use data from tasks you are interested in and data from other tasks.

The future of data-centric AI talk series Background Anima Anandkumar holds dual positions in academia and industry. She is a Bren professor at Caltech and the director of machine learning research at NVIDIA. Anima also has a long list of accomplishments ranging from the Alfred P. Sloan scholarship to the prestigious NSF career award and many more. She recently joined

Understanding the label model. Machine learning whiteboard (MLW) open-source series Background Frederic Sala, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a research scientist at Snorkel AI. Previously, he was a postdoc in Chris Re’s lab at Stanford. His research focuses on data-driven systems and weak supervision. In this talk, Fred focuses on weak supervision modeling. This machine

Moving from Manual to Programmatic Labeling Labeling training data by hand is exhausting. It’s tedious, slow, and expensive—the de facto bottleneck most AI/ML teams face today 1. Eager to alleviate this pain point of AI development, machine learning practitioners have long sought ways to automate this labor-intensive labeling process (i.e., “automated data labeling”) 2, and have reached for classic approaches

The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Alex Ratner is CEO and co-founder of Snorkel AI and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington. He recently joined the Future of Data-Centric AI event, where he presented the principles of data-centric AI and where it’s headed. If you would like to watch his presentation in full,

Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series  Today, Ryan Smith, machine learning research engineer at Snorkel AI, talks about prompting methods with language models and some applications they have with weak supervision. In this talk, we’re essentially going to be using this paper as a template—this paper is a great survey over some methods in prompting from the last few years

Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series We launched the machine learning whiteboard series (MLW) was launched earlier this year as an open-invitation forum to brainstorm ideas and discuss the latest papers, techniques, and workflows in artificial intelligence. Everyone interested in learning about machine learning can participate in an informal and open environment. If you are interested in learning about ML,

ScienceTalks with Abigail See. Diving into the misconceptions of AI, the challenges of natural language generation (NLG), and the path to large-scale NLG deployment In this episode of Science Talks, Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock chats with Abigail See, an expert natural language processing (NLP) researcher and educator from Stanford University. We discuss Abigail’s path into machine learning (ML), her previous

Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series For our new visitors, we started our machine learning whiteboard (MLW) series earlier this year as an open-invite space to brainstorm ideas and discuss the latest papers, techniques, and workflows in the AI space. In which, we emphasize an informal and open environment to everyone interested in learning about machine learning. So, if you are interested

The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Snorkel co-founder Chris Ré is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and an award-winning researcher in data-based theory and machine learning. He has co-founded four companies based on his research in machine learning systems. Chris recently presented at the Future of Data-Centric AI virtual event in September, where he

Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series We started our machine learning whiteboard (MLW) series earlier this year as an open-invite space to brainstorm ideas and discuss the latest papers, techniques, and workflows in the AI space. We emphasize an informal and open environment to everyone interested in learning about machine learning.In this episode, Fait Poms, a Ph.D. student at Stanford

Main takeaways from The Future of Data-Centric AI Event We recently hosted The Future of Data-Centric AI, where academia, research, and industry experts and practitioners came together to discuss the shift from model-centric AI development to data-centric AI and what lies ahead. This post gives you a quick overview of the event and top takeaways from over eight hours of