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Annotation

Annotation involves labeling raw data—such as text, images, or video—with relevant tags to prepare it for machine learning models. Accurate data annotation forms the foundation for training AI systems. Models learn from patterns in labeled data and then mimic them.

Whether manual or automated, annotation must be consistent and scalable, especially when handling large datasets.

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Evaluating AI agents for insurance underwriting
In this post, we will show you a specialized benchmark dataset we developed with our expert network of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (CPCUs). The benchmark uncovers several model-specific and actionable error modes, including basic tool use errors and a surprising number of insidious hallucinations from one provider. This is part of an ongoing series of benchmarks we are releasing across verticals
June 26, 2025
Chris Glaze
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LLM-as-a-judge for enterprises: evaluate model alignment at scale
Discover how enterprises can leverage LLM-as-Judge systems to evaluate generative AI outputs at scale, improve model alignment, reduce costs, and tackle challenges like bias and interpretability.
March 26, 2025
Matt Casey
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Explore the new GenAI Evaluation Suite: Snorkel 2024.R3
We aim to help our customers get GenAI into production. In our 2024.R3 release, we’ve delivered some exciting GenAI evaluation results.
October 9, 2024
Marty Moesta
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Snorkel Flow 2024.R3: Supercharge your AI development with enhanced data-centric workflows
Snorkel AI has made building production-ready, high-value enterprise AI applications faster and easier than ever. The 2024.R3 update to our Snorkel Flow AI data development platform streamlines data-centric workflows, from easier-than-ever generative AI evaluation to multi-schema annotation.
October 9, 2024
Matt Casey
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New NLP features in Snorkel Flow 2024.R3
Discover new NLP features in Snorkel Flow\’s 2024.R3 release, including named entity recognition for PDFs + advanced sequence tagging tools.
October 9, 2024
Jennifer Lei
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Task Me Anything: innovating multimodal model benchmarks
“Task Me Anything” empowers data scientists to generate bespoke benchmarks to assess and choose the right multimodal model for their needs.
September 4, 2024
Jieyu Zhang
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Alfred: Data labeling with foundation models and weak supervision
Introducing Alfred: an open-source tool for combining foundation models with weak supervision for faster development of academic data sets.
August 27, 2024
Peilin Yu
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Weak supervision for non-categorical applications + superalignment
We need more labeled data than ever, so we have explored weak supervision for non-categorical applications—with notable results.
July 2, 2024
Changho Shin
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How Snorkel topped the AlpacaEval leaderboard (and why we’re not there anymore)
Snorkel AI placed a model at the top of the AlpacaEval leaderboard. Here’s how we built it, and how it changed AlpacaEval’s metrics.
April 9, 2024
Hoang Tran
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Large language model training: three phases that shape LLM training
Training large language models is a multi-layered stack of processes, each with its unique role and contribution to the model’s performance.
February 27, 2024
Stephen Bach
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Snorkel Flow 2023.R4: enhanced UI + PDF and Databricks tools
New unified prompting UI + RAG features, PDF annotation, Databricks MLflow integration, Snorkel Flow Studio, and datasets load 2x faster!
January 9, 2024
Nick Harvey
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How to scale chatbot development with Google Dialogflow and Snorkel Flow
A brief guide on how financial institutions could use Google Dialogflow with Snorkel Flow to build better chatbots for retail banking
December 12, 2023
Sean Earley
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How predictive AI + generative AI build amazing document understanding
A proof-of-concept project that combines predictive AI + generative AI to minimize LLM’s risks while keeping their advantages.
December 5, 2023
Shahebaz Mohammad
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How AI-powered claims processing creates new efficiencies in insurance
Insurance claims processing has long required a lot of tedious and expensive human labor, but artificial intelligence (AI) can help.
October 18, 2023
Team Snorkel
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How GPT helped expand our marketing team’s capacity
GPT-3 unlocked additional capacity by automating first drafts of internal updates—including blog summaries and sample tweets.
August 29, 2023
Matt Casey
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Accelerating predictive task time to value with generative AI
Generative AI can write poems, recite common knowledge, and extract information. GenAI can also help quickly build predictive pipelines.
August 17, 2023
Bradley Fowler
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Getting better performance from foundation models (with less data)
Getting better performance from foundation models (with less data)
August 4, 2023
Fred Sala
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Snorkel Flow Summer 2023: faster, easier and more secure
This release eases Snorkel Flow application creation process and tightens the iteration loop. It also upgrades our security certifications.
July 14, 2023
Nick Harvey
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How NVIDIA Omniverse bolsters AI with synthetic data
NVIDIA’s Nyla Worker presented “Leveraging Synthetic Data to Train Perception Models Using NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator” in 2022.
July 6, 2023
Team Snorkel
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How to build reusable data cleaning pipelines with scikit-learn
State Farm senior data scientist Jason Goldfarb presented “Reusable Data Cleaning Pipelines in Python” at the Future of Data-Centric AI 2022.
July 3, 2023
Team Snorkel
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Claypot AI CEO on why you should deploy models the hard way
Claypot AI CEO Chip Huyen presented “Platform for Real-Time Machine Learning” at Snorkel AI’s Future of Data-Centric AI 2022.
June 27, 2023
Team Snorkel
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Black Swan Data CTO on how to tackle petabyte-level learning
Peter Davio, CTO at Black Swan Data, presented “Petabyte-Level Learning” at Snorkel AI’s The Future of Data-Centric AI Summit in 2022.
June 15, 2023
Team Snorkel
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How Grammarly strives for superhuman communication assistance
Grammarly’s Timo Mertens presents “Toward Superhuman Communication Assistance” at Snorkel AI’s The Future of Data-Centric AI Summit in 2022.
June 14, 2023
Team Snorkel
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The Future of Data-Centric AI Day 2: Snorkel Flow and Beyond
The Future of Data-Centric AI showcased customer to successes, took a deep look at Snorkel Flow, and announced two new solutions.
June 10, 2023
Matt Casey
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Dataset cartography: a data science lesson from Capital One
William Huang, senior data scientist at Capital One, discussed “dataset cartography” and its value at the Future of Data-Centric AI 2022.
May 10, 2023
Team Snorkel
Redesigning snorkel's interactive machine learning systems
Redesigning Snorkel’s interactive machine learning systems
To empower our enterprise customers, we redesigned the ML systems behind Snorkel Flow to make sure we were meeting customer needs.
May 3, 2023
Will Hang
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AMA technique: a trick to build systems with foundation models
Simran Arora is a machine learning researcher at Stanford University. She presented “Ask Me Anything: How are Foundation Models Changing the Way We Build Software” at Snorkel AI’s Foundation Model Virtual Summit 2023.
April 13, 2023
Team Snorkel
Scrabble tiles spelling "foundation." Relevant to Foundation Models, no?
Foundation Models 101: a guide with essential FAQs
Foundation Models (FMs), such as GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion, mark the beginning of a new era in machine learning and artificial intelligence. What are they and how will they impact your business? Find out in our guide.
March 1, 2023
Matt Casey
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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.
February 17, 2023
Team Snorkel
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Aspect-based sentiment analysis in Snorkel Flow
Understanding and quantifying people’s opinions has become increasingly important to businesses, but the way people can express multiple thoughts in the same sentence has frustrated practitioners’ efforts to extract those opinions cleanly—a problem we can solve through aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA).
February 15, 2023
Lia Chin-Purcell