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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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Training Classifiers with Natural Language Explanations
Training accurate classifiers requires many labels, but each label provides only limited information (one bit for binary classification). In this work, we propose BabbleLabble, a framework for training classifiers in which an annotator provides a natural language explanation for each labeling decision. A semantic parser converts these explanations into programmatic labeling functions that generate noisy labels for an arbitrary amount of unlabeled data, which is used to train a classifier. On three relation extraction tasks, we find that users are able to train classifiers with comparable F1 scores from 5–100× faster by providing explanations instead of just labels. Furthermore, given...
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Training Classifiers with Natural Language Explanations

Training accurate classifiers requires many labels, but each label provides only limited information (one bit for binary classification). In this work, we propose BabbleLabble, a framework for training classifiers in which an annotator provides a natural language explanation for each labeling decision. A semantic parser converts these explanations into programmatic labeling functions that generate noisy labels for an arbitrary amount…

Dec 20, 2018

B. Hancock, et al, 2018

Learn more about Training Classifiers with Natural Language Explanations
Software 2.0 and Snorkel: Beyond Hand-Labeled Data
This paper describes Snorkel, a system that enables users to help shape, create, and manage training data for Software 2.0 stacks.
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Software 2.0 and Snorkel: Beyond Hand-Labeled Data

This paper describes Snorkel, a system that enables users to help shape, create, and manage training data for Software 2.0 stacks.

Dec 19, 2018

C. Ré, 2018 (invited)

Learn more about Software 2.0 and Snorkel: Beyond Hand-Labeled Data
Snorkel MeTaL: Weak Supervision for Multi-Task Learning
Presenting Snorkel MeTal, an end-to-end system for multi-task learning.
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Snorkel MeTaL: Weak Supervision for Multi-Task Learning

Presenting Snorkel MeTal, an end-to-end system for multi-task learning.

Dec 18, 2018

A. Ratner, et al, 2018

Learn more about Snorkel MeTaL: Weak Supervision for Multi-Task Learning
Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction From Richly Formatted Data
Introducing Fonduer, a machine-learning-based KBC system for richly formatted data.
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Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction From Richly Formatted Data

Introducing Fonduer, a machine-learning-based KBC system for richly formatted data.

Dec 17, 2018

S. Wu, et al, 2018

Learn more about Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction From Richly Formatted Data
Deep Text Mining of Instagram Data Without Strong Supervision
This paper showcases methods for unsupervised mining of fashion attributes from Instagram text, which can enable a new kind of user recommendation in the fashion domain.
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Deep Text Mining of Instagram Data Without Strong Supervision

This paper showcases methods for unsupervised mining of fashion attributes from Instagram text, which can enable a new kind of user recommendation in the fashion domain.

Dec 16, 2018

K. Hammar, et al, 2018

Learn more about Deep Text Mining of Instagram Data Without Strong Supervision
Snorkel: Fast Training Set Generation for Information Extraction
Introducing Snorkel, a new system for quickly creating, managing, and modeling training datasets.
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Snorkel: Fast Training Set Generation for Information Extraction

Introducing Snorkel, a new system for quickly creating, managing, and modeling training datasets.

Dec 20, 2017

A. Ratner, et al, 2017

Learn more about Snorkel: Fast Training Set Generation for Information Extraction
Learning to Compose Domain-Specific Transformations for Data Augmentation
Automating data augmentation by learning a generative sequence model over user-specified transformation functions.
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Learning to Compose Domain-Specific Transformations for Data Augmentation

Automating data augmentation by learning a generative sequence model over user-specified transformation functions.

Dec 19, 2017

A. Ratner, et al, 2017

Learn more about Learning to Compose Domain-Specific Transformations for Data Augmentation
Learning the Structure of Generative Models Without Labeled Data
Proposing a structure estimation method that is 100x faster than a maximum likelihood approach for training data.
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Learning the Structure of Generative Models Without Labeled Data

Proposing a structure estimation method that is 100x faster than a maximum likelihood approach for training data.

Dec 18, 2017

S. Bach, et al, 2017

Learn more about Learning the Structure of Generative Models Without Labeled Data
Inferring Generative Model Structure With Static Analysis
Obtaining enough labeled data to robustly train complex discriminative models is a major bottleneck in the machine learning pipeline. A popular solution is combining multiple sources of weak supervision using generative models. The structure of these models affects the quality of the training labels, but is difficult to learn without any ground truth labels. We instead rely on weak supervision sources having some structure by virtue of being encoded programmatically. We present Coral, a paradigm that infers generative model structure by statically analyzing the code for these heuristics, thus significantly reducing the amount of data required to learn structure. We...
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Inferring Generative Model Structure With Static Analysis

Obtaining enough labeled data to robustly train complex discriminative models is a major bottleneck in the machine learning pipeline. A popular solution is combining multiple sources of weak supervision using generative models. The structure of these models affects the quality of the training labels, but is difficult to learn without any ground truth labels. We instead rely on weak supervision…

Dec 17, 2017

P. Varma, et al, 2017

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