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Research

Snorkel AI emerged from a research project, and we remain closely connected to the research community. Students and professors associated with the Snorkel project continue to publish academic papers that push the field forward, and the Snorkel AI research team integrates the most promising of those ideas into our platform.

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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 AI researchers present 18 papers at NeurIPS 2023
The Snorkel AI team will present 18 research papers and talks at the 2023 Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference from December 10-16. The Snorkel papers cover a broad range of topics including fairness, semi-supervised learning, large language models (LLMs), and domain-specific models. Snorkel AI is proud of its roots in the research community and endeavors to remain at the forefront
October 31, 2023
Team Snorkel
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Long context models in the enterprise: benchmarks and beyond
Snorkel researchers devised a new way to evaluate long context models and address their “lost-in-the-middle” challenges with mediod voting.
June 6, 2024
Amanda Dsouza

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Discovering climate change impact with Snorkel-enabled NLP
Prasanna Balaprakash, research and development lead from Argonne National Laboratory gave a presentation entitled “Extracting the Impact of Climate Change from Scientific Literature using Snorkel-Enabled NLP” at Snorkel AI’s Future of Data-Centric AI Workshop in August, 2022.
April 18, 2023
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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
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Coactive AI’s CEO: quality beats quantity for data selection
Cody Coleman, CEO and Co-Founder of Coactive AI gave a presentation entitled “Data Selection for Data-Centric AI: Quality over Quantity” at Snorkel AI’s Future of Data-Centric AI Event in August 2022.
April 11, 2023
Team Snorkel
Ananya Kumar, standfor student
Boost foundation model results with linear probing and fine-tuning
Ananya Kumar, Stanford Ph.D. student, explains methods to improve foundation model performance, including linear probing and fine-tuning.
April 5, 2023
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New research expands limitations of weak supervision, foundation models
Snorkel AI researchers continue to push the frontier of machine learning, as demonstrated by the 18 research papers recently added to our website.
March 24, 2023
Matt Casey
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Research roundup: dive into the latest foundation model research
Snorkel AI CEO and co-founder Alex Ratner recently spoke with five Snorkel researchers about their foundation model research.
March 23, 2023
Matt Casey
HuggingFace Amanpreet Singh
HuggingFace research lead on unified foundation models
Amanpreet Singh, Lead Researcher at Hugging Face gave a presentation entitled Towards Unified Foundation Models for Vision and Language Alignment a Snorkel AI’s Foundation Model Summit in January.
March 8, 2023
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Foundation Model Summit Sessions Show Challenges and Promise
Twelve speakers shared their insights into the present and future of foundation models January event; see what they had to say.
March 7, 2023
Matt Casey
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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Combining foundation models with weak supervision
Combining foundation model outputs with weak supervision yields faster model development and requires fewer ground truth labels.
March 1, 2023
Matt Hoffman
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Operationalizing knowledge for data-centric AI
Snorkel AI CEO and Co-Founder Alex Ratner’s introduction to data-centric AI from the 2022 Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference.
February 27, 2023
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How a Brown professor sharpened and shrunk GPT-3
Brown professor Stephen Bach tells Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner about his research into improving foundation models like GPT-3 with curated data.
February 21, 2023
Team Snorkel
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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
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NASA ML Lead on its WorldView citizen scientist no-code tool
Anirudh Koul is Machine Learning Lead for the NASA Frontier Development Lab and the Head of Machine Learning Sciences at Pinterest. He presented at Snorkel AI’s 2022 Future of Data Centric AI (FDCAI) Conference.
February 6, 2023
Team Snorkel
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Accuracy top concern for Foundation Model adoption—Poll
Most poll respondents at Snorkel AI’s recent Foundation Model Virtual Summit named questionable accuracy as the biggest barrier preventing them from getting organizational value from Foundation Models.
January 31, 2023
Matt Casey