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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
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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
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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
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Amanda Dsouza

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Algorithms that leverage data from other tasks with Chelsea Finn
The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Chelsea Finn is an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, whose research has been widely recognized, including in the New York Times and MIT Technology Review. In this talk, Chelsea talks about algorithms that use data from tasks you are interested in and data from other tasks.
March 31, 2022
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Team Snorkel
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Learning with imperfect labels and visual data with Anima Anandkumar
The future of data-centric AI talk series Background Anima Anandkumar holds dual positions in academia and industry. She is a Bren professor at Caltech and the director of machine learning research at NVIDIA. Anima also has a long list of accomplishments ranging from the Alfred P. Sloan scholarship to the prestigious NSF career award and many more. She recently joined
March 18, 2022
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Team Snorkel
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Weak Supervision Modeling with Fred Sala
Understanding the label model. Machine learning whiteboard (MLW) open-source series Background Frederic Sala, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a research scientist at Snorkel AI. Previously, he was a postdoc in Chris Re’s lab at Stanford. His research focuses on data-driven systems and weak supervision. In this talk, Fred focuses on weak supervision modeling. This machine
March 17, 2022
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Team Snorkel
Making Automated Data Labeling a Reality in Modern AI
Moving from Manual to Programmatic Labeling Labeling training data by hand is exhausting. It’s tedious, slow, and expensive—the de facto bottleneck most AI/ML teams face today 1. Eager to alleviate this pain point of AI development, machine learning practitioners have long sought ways to automate this labor-intensive labeling process (i.e., “automated data labeling”) 2, and have reached for classic approaches
February 4, 2022
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Braden Hancock
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The Principles of Data-Centric AI Development
The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Alex Ratner is CEO and co-founder of Snorkel AI and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington. He recently joined the Future of Data-Centric AI event, where he presented the principles of data-centric AI and where it’s headed. If you would like to watch his presentation in full,
January 25, 2022
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Team Snorkel
Prompting Methods with Language Models and Their Applications to Weak Supervision
Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series  Today, Ryan Smith, machine learning research engineer at Snorkel AI, talks about prompting methods with language models and some applications they have with weak supervision. In this talk, we’re essentially going to be using this paper as a template—this paper is a great survey over some methods in prompting from the last few years
January 19, 2022
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Team Snorkel
Epoxy: Using Semi-Supervised Learning to Augment Weak Supervision
Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series We launched the machine learning whiteboard series (MLW) was launched earlier this year as an open-invitation forum to brainstorm ideas and discuss the latest papers, techniques, and workflows in artificial intelligence. Everyone interested in learning about machine learning can participate in an informal and open environment. If you are interested in learning about ML,
December 16, 2021
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Team Snorkel
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Facts and Myths
ScienceTalks with Abigail See. Diving into the misconceptions of AI, the challenges of natural language generation (NLG), and the path to large-scale NLG deployment In this episode of Science Talks, Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock chats with Abigail See, an expert natural language processing (NLP) researcher and educator from Stanford University. We discuss Abigail’s path into machine learning (ML), her previous
November 23, 2021
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Team Snorkel
PonderNet: Learning to Ponder by DeepMind
Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series For our new visitors, we started our machine learning whiteboard (MLW) series earlier this year as an open-invite space to brainstorm ideas and discuss the latest papers, techniques, and workflows in the AI space. In which, we emphasize an informal and open environment to everyone interested in learning about machine learning. So, if you are interested
November 10, 2021
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Team Snorkel
Snorkel’s Journey to Data-Centric AI, with Chris Ré
The Future of Data-Centric AI Talk Series Background Snorkel co-founder Chris Ré is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and an award-winning researcher in data-based theory and machine learning. He has co-founded four companies based on his research in machine learning systems. Chris recently presented at the Future of Data-Centric AI virtual event in September, where he
November 3, 2021
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Team Snorkel
Forager: Rapid Data Exploration for Rapid Model Development
Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-source Series We started our machine learning whiteboard (MLW) series earlier this year as 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, Fait Poms, a Ph.D. student at Stanford
October 14, 2021
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Team Snorkel
Recap: The Future of Data-Centric AI Event
Main takeaways from The Future of Data-Centric AI Event We recently hosted The Future of Data-Centric AI, where academia, research, and industry experts and practitioners came together to discuss the shift from model-centric AI development to data-centric AI and what lies ahead. This post gives you a quick overview of the event and top takeaways from over eight hours of
October 11, 2021
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Aarti Bagul
Building Malleable Machine Learning (ML) Systems
Defining and Building Malleable ML Systems – Machine Learning Whiteboard (MLW) Open-Source Series As you may know, 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
September 22, 2021
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Team Snorkel
Applying Weak Supervision Research
ScienceTalks with Paroma Varma In this episode of Science Talks, Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock chats with Paroma Varma – a co-founder of Snorkel AI and one of the first and leading contributors to the Snorkel project. We discuss Paroma’s path into machine learning, her work in optimization and signal processing during her undergrad, weak supervision and image data during her
September 13, 2021
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Team Snorkel
Sliceline: Fast, Linear-Algebra-Based Slice Finding for ML Model Debugging
Diving Into SliceLine – 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, Kaushik Shivakumar dives into
September 8, 2021
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Team Snorkel