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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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Extended Few-Shot Learning: Exploiting Existing Resources for Novel Tasks
In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these scenarios. We then introduce a framework to address the challenges of efficiently selecting and effectively using auxiliary data in few-shot image classification. Given a large auxiliary dataset and a notion of semantic similarity among classes, we automatically select pseudo shots, which are labeled examples from other classes related to the target task. We show that naive approaches, such as (1) modeling these additional examples the same as...
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Extended Few-Shot Learning: Exploiting Existing Resources for Novel Tasks

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these scenarios. We then introduce a framework to address the challenges of efficiently selecting and effectively using auxiliary data in few-shot image classification. Given a large auxiliary dataset…

Jul 03, 2021

R. Esfandiarpoor, et al.

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MANDOLINE: Model Evaluation under Distribution Shift
Machine learning models are often deployed in different settings than they were trained and validated on, posing a challenge to practitioners who wish to predict how well the deployed model will perform on a target distribution. If an unlabeled sample from the target distribution is available, along with a labeled sample from a possibly different source distribution, standard approaches such as importance weighting can be applied to estimate performance on the target. However, importance weighting struggles when the source and target distributions have non-overlapping support or are high-dimensional. Taking inspiration from fields such as epidemiology and polling, we develop MANDOLINE,...
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MANDOLINE: Model Evaluation under Distribution Shift

Machine learning models are often deployed in different settings than they were trained and validated on, posing a challenge to practitioners who wish to predict how well the deployed model will perform on a target distribution. If an unlabeled sample from the target distribution is available, along with a labeled sample from a possibly different source distribution, standard approaches such…

Jul 01, 2021

M. Chen, et al.

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Multi-Resolution Weak Supervision for Sequential Data

Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series Our machine learning whiteboard (MLW) is 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 discovering more about machine learning.In this episode, Hiromu Hota, Vincent Sunn Chen, Daniel Y. Fu, and Frederic Sala dive…

Jun 25, 2021
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What will it take to generate fairness-preserving explanations?
In situations where explanations of black-box models may be useful, the fairness of the blackbox is also often a relevant concern. However, the link between the fairness of the black-box model and the behavior of explanations for the black-box is unclear. We focus on explanations applied to tabular datasets, suggesting that explanations do not necessarily preserve the fairness properties of the black-box algorithm. In other words, explanation algorithms can ignore or obscure critical relevant properties, creating incorrect or misleading explanations. More broadly, we propose future research directions for evaluating and generating explanations such that they are informative and relevant from...
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What will it take to generate fairness-preserving explanations?

In situations where explanations of black-box models may be useful, the fairness of the blackbox is also often a relevant concern. However, the link between the fairness of the black-box model and the behavior of explanations for the black-box is unclear. We focus on explanations applied to tabular datasets, suggesting that explanations do not necessarily preserve the fairness properties of…

Jun 24, 2021

J. Dai, et al.

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Weak Supervision in Biomedicine

In this episode of Science Talks, Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock chats with Jason Fries – a research scientist at Stanford University’s Biomedical Informatics Research lab and Snorkel Research, and one of the first contributors to the Snorkel open-source library. We discuss Jason’s path into machine learning, empowering doctors and scientists with weak supervision, and utilizing organizational resources in biomedical applications of Snorkel. This episode is part…

Jun 16, 2021
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Curiosity-Driven Learning for Physically Grounded Autonomous Agents
The human ability to solve complex manipulation tasks is based on a flexible generalizable understanding of intuitive physics mostly learned through curiosity-driven self-play during infancy. We aim to replicate such interactive learning in artificial agents to achieve the same flexibility and generalizability when solving complex manipulation tasks. For that purpose, we introduce a general framework for learning intuitive physics through curiosity-driven self-play for artificial agents. Within this framework, we demonstrate how object-centric representations can greatly improve intuitive physics predictions and support stochastic predictions of complex physical scenes modeling uncertainty, and then show that object-centric physics prediction models can be trained...
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Curiosity-Driven Learning for Physically Grounded Autonomous Agents

The human ability to solve complex manipulation tasks is based on a flexible generalizable understanding of intuitive physics mostly learned through curiosity-driven self-play during infancy. We aim to replicate such interactive learning in artificial agents to achieve the same flexibility and generalizability when solving complex manipulation tasks. For that purpose, we introduce a general framework for learning intuitive physics through…

Jun 01, 2021

D. Mrowca

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Training Classifiers With Natural Language Explanations

Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series Earlier this year, we started our machine learning whiteboard (MLW) series, 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, our Co-founder and Head of Technology. Braden Hancock…

May 24, 2021
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Applying Information Theory to ML With Fred Sala

In this episode of Science Talks, Frederic Sala – an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a research scientist at Snorkel discusses his path into machine learning, the central thesis that ties together his multidisciplinary research, his thoughts on the future of weak supervision, as well as his decision to go into academia.

May 19, 2021
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Adversarial Multiclass Learning under Weak Supervision with Performance Guarantees
This paper presents a rigorous approach for using a set of arbitrarily correlated weak supervision sources in order to solve a multiclass classification task when only a very small set of labeled data is available
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Adversarial Multiclass Learning under Weak Supervision with Performance Guarantees

This paper presents a rigorous approach for using a set of arbitrarily correlated weak supervision sources in order to solve a multiclass classification task when only a very small set of labeled data is available

May 11, 2021
Snorkel Team
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