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key research areas

Vision and impact

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

initiatives

Community and open science

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

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Open Benchmarks Grants

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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Benchtalks

Our podcast series at the intersection of AI evaluation, data quality, and real-world impact.
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Reading Group

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
Jared Dunnmon headshot

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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How a Brown professor sharpened and shrunk GPT-3
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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.

Feb 21, 2023
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Cleanlab CEO shows automatic data-cleansing tools
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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.

Feb 17, 2023
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NASA ML Lead on its WorldView citizen scientist no-code tool
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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.

Feb 06, 2023
Learn more about NASA ML Lead on its WorldView citizen scientist no-code tool
Accuracy top concern for Foundation Model adoption—Poll
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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.

Jan 31, 2023
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How Foundation Models bolster programmatic labeling
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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.

Jan 26, 2023
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Unmasking Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning
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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.

Jan 20, 2023
Learn more about Unmasking Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning
Prompting and weak supervision to build better, smaller models
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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.

Jan 19, 2023
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FM Summit shows Foundation Model hurdles and potential
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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.

Jan 18, 2023
Learn more about FM Summit shows Foundation Model hurdles and potential
Contrastive Learning boosts Foundation Model specialization
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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.

Jan 13, 2023
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