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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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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

Learn more about Inferring Generative Model Structure With Static Analysis
Swellshark: A Generative Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Without Labeled Data
Introducing SwellShark, a framework for building biomedical named entity recognition (NER) systems quickly.
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Swellshark: A Generative Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Without Labeled Data

Introducing SwellShark, a framework for building biomedical named entity recognition (NER) systems quickly.

Nov 13, 2017

J. Fries, et al, 2017

Learn more about Swellshark: A Generative Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Without Labeled Data
Socratic Learning: Augmenting Generative Models to Incorporate Latent Subsets in Training Data
A challenge in training discriminative models like neural networks is obtaining enough labeled training data. Recent approaches use generative models to combine weak supervision sources, like user-defined heuristics or knowledge bases, to label training data. Prior work has explored learning accuracies for these sources even without ground truth labels, but they assume that a single accuracy parameter is sufficient to model the behavior of these sources over the entire training set. In particular, they fail to model latent subsets in the training data in which the supervision sources perform differently than on average. We present Socratic learning, a paradigm that...
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Socratic Learning: Augmenting Generative Models to Incorporate Latent Subsets in Training Data

A challenge in training discriminative models like neural networks is obtaining enough labeled training data. Recent approaches use generative models to combine weak supervision sources, like user-defined heuristics or knowledge bases, to label training data. Prior work has explored learning accuracies for these sources even without ground truth labels, but they assume that a single accuracy parameter is sufficient to…

Nov 13, 2017

P. Varma, et al, 2017

Learn more about Socratic Learning: Augmenting Generative Models to Incorporate Latent Subsets in Training Data
Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation With Weak Supervision
This paper presents a flexible interface layer to write labeling functions based on experience.
Research Paper
Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation With Weak Supervision

This paper presents a flexible interface layer to write labeling functions based on experience.

Oct 04, 2017

Alexander Ratner, Stephen H Bach, Henry Ehrenberg, Jason Fries, Sen Wu, Christopher Ré

Learn more about Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation With Weak Supervision
Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly
A paradigm for labeling training datasets programmatically rather than by hand.
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Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly

A paradigm for labeling training datasets programmatically rather than by hand.

Dec 20, 2016

A. Ratner, et al. 2016

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Data Programming With DDLite: Putting Humans in a Different Part of the Loop
Introducing DDLite, an interactive development framework for data programming.
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Data Programming With DDLite: Putting Humans in a Different Part of the Loop

Introducing DDLite, an interactive development framework for data programming.

Dec 19, 2016

H. Ehrenberg, et al, 2016

Learn more about Data Programming With DDLite: Putting Humans in a Different Part of the Loop
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