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We help labs advance frontier models by working with domain experts to design and build complex, realistic datasets that drive model performance.

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Open benchmarks, conversations, and research for real-world AI performance.

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Backed by a $3M commitment, the program funds
open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation artifacts that shape how frontier AI systems are built
and evaluated.

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Our podcast series at the intersection of AI evaluation, data quality, and real-world impact.
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A recurring forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the latest frontier developments in AI while building meaningful connections within the community.

DEEP RESEARCH Expertise

Technical advisors and distinguished affiliates

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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
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Jared Dunnmon

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
Prev. Dir. of AI at DIU
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Fred Sala

Chief Scientist
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Snorkel AI
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chris Ré

Co-Founder
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Snorkel AI
Professor @ Stanford University
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Ludwig Schmidt

Stanford University · LAION
Stanford researcher and LAION collaborator
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Karthik Narasimhan

Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science
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Yu Su

Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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Lewis Tunstall

Hugging Face
Machine Learning Engineer
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Bloomberg’s Gideon Mann on the power of domain specialist LLMs
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Bloomberg’s Gideon Mann on the power of domain specialist LLMs

Gideon Mann, head of ML Product and Research at Bloomberg LP, chatted with Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner about building BloombergGPT.

Oct 17, 2023
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Which is better, retrieval augmentation (RAG) or fine-tuning? Both.
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Which is better, retrieval augmentation (RAG) or fine-tuning? Both.

Professionals in the data science space often debate whether RAG or fine-tuning yields the better result. The answer is “both.”

Sep 20, 2023
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Tasks Algorithmically Given Labels Established via Transferred Symbols (TAGLETS)
We conducted research to reduce the amount of labeled data required to train machine learning systems. The pinnacle of this effort is the development of TAGLETS, a machine learning system that seamlessly integrates widely known collections of labeled data with a diverse array of machine learning algorithms, known as weak labelers. The system's evolution has been significantly influenced by comprehensive theoretical explorations into effectively aggregating these weak labelers within the system. The research's scope expands to the application of large pre-trained models in low-resource settings. The result of these efforts is Alfred, a second-generation system tailored for programmatic weak supervision...
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Tasks Algorithmically Given Labels Established via Transferred Symbols (TAGLETS)

We conducted research to reduce the amount of labeled data required to train machine learning systems. The pinnacle of this effort is the development of TAGLETS, a machine learning system that seamlessly integrates widely known collections of labeled data with a diverse array of machine learning algorithms, known as weak labelers. The system’s evolution has been significantly influenced by comprehensive…

Sep 20, 2023

M. Littman, et al.

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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on past and future of data science
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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on past and future of data science

Past U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil talked with Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner on topics including the origin of the title “data scientist.”

Sep 12, 2023
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4 new papers show foundation models can build on themselves
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4 new papers show foundation models can build on themselves

The surest way to improve foundation models is through more and better data, but Snorkel researchers showed FMs can learn from themselves.

Aug 31, 2023
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Accelerating predictive task time to value with generative AI
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Accelerating predictive task time to value with generative AI

Generative AI can write poems, recite common knowledge, and extract information. GenAI can also help quickly build predictive pipelines.

Aug 17, 2023
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Reasoning over Public and Private Data in Retrieval-Based Systems
Users and organizations are generating ever-increasing amounts of private data from a wide range of sources. Incorporating private context is important to personalize open-domain tasks such as question-answering, fact-checking, and personal assistants. State-of-the-art systems for these tasks explicitly retrieve information that is relevant to an input question from a background corpus before producing an answer. While today’s retrieval systems assume relevant corpora are fully (e.g., publicly) accessible, users are often unable or unwilling to expose their private data to entities hosting public data. We define the Split Iterative Retrieval (SPIRAL) problem involving iterative retrieval over multiple privacy scopes. We introduce...
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Reasoning over Public and Private Data in Retrieval-Based Systems

Users and organizations are generating ever-increasing amounts of private data from a wide range of sources. Incorporating private context is important to personalize open-domain tasks such as question-answering, fact-checking, and personal assistants. State-of-the-art systems for these tasks explicitly retrieve information that is relevant to an input question from a background corpus before producing an answer. While today’s retrieval systems assume…

Aug 07, 2023

S. Arora, et al.

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Getting better performance from foundation models (with less data)
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Getting better performance from foundation models (with less data)

Getting better performance from foundation models (with less data)

Aug 04, 2023
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Data fuels enterprise AI value: 6 takeaways from the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2023
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Data fuels enterprise AI value: 6 takeaways from the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2023

GenAI may be the most transformative technology of the past decade but data is where enterprises are able to realize real value from AI today.

Aug 02, 2023
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