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open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation artifacts that shape how frontier AI systems are built
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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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Creating Training Sets via Weak Indirect Supervision
This paper extends the scope of usable sources in WS, by formulating Weak Indirect Supervision (WIS), a new research problem for automatically synthesizing training labels based on indirect supervision sources that have different output label spaces.
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Creating Training Sets via Weak Indirect Supervision

This paper extends the scope of usable sources in WS, by formulating Weak Indirect Supervision (WIS), a new research problem for automatically synthesizing training labels based on indirect supervision sources that have different output label spaces.

Apr 01, 2022

J. Zhang, et al

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Algorithms that leverage data from other tasks with Chelsea Finn
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Algorithms that leverage data from other tasks with Chelsea Finn

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….

Mar 31, 2022
Learn more about Algorithms that leverage data from other tasks with Chelsea Finn
Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
This paper introduces the Structured State Space sequence model (s4), which uses a new parameterization for the state-space model to improve long-range dependency handling both mathematically and empirically.
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Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces

This paper introduces the Structured State Space sequence model (s4), which uses a new parameterization for the state-space model to improve long-range dependency handling both mathematically and empirically.

Mar 29, 2022

A. Gu, et al

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Learning from Multiple Noisy Partial Labelers
This work enables users to create partial labelers that output subsets of possible class labels would greatly expand the expressivity of programmatic weak supervision.
Research Paper
Learning from Multiple Noisy Partial Labelers

This work enables users to create partial labelers that output subsets of possible class labels would greatly expand the expressivity of programmatic weak supervision.

Mar 28, 2022

P. Yu, et al

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Learning with imperfect labels and visual data with Anima Anandkumar
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Learning with imperfect labels and visual data with Anima Anandkumar

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…

Mar 18, 2022
Learn more about Learning with imperfect labels and visual data with Anima Anandkumar
Weak Supervision Modeling with Fred Sala
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Weak Supervision Modeling with Fred Sala

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…

Mar 17, 2022
Learn more about Weak Supervision Modeling with Fred Sala
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Making Automated Data Labeling a Reality in Modern AI

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…

Feb 04, 2022
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The Principles of Data-Centric AI Development
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The Principles of Data-Centric AI Development

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,…

Jan 25, 2022
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Prompting Methods with Language Models and Their Applications to Weak Supervision

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…

Jan 19, 2022
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