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We help labs advance frontier models by working with domain experts to design and build complex, realistic datasets that drive model performance.

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open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation artifacts that shape how frontier AI systems are built
and evaluated.

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Our podcast series at the intersection of AI evaluation, data quality, and real-world impact.
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DEEP RESEARCH Expertise

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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Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods for Preserving Machine Learning Performance in the Presence of Temporal Dataset Shift in Clinical Medicine
Research Paper
Evaluation of Feature Selection Methods for Preserving Machine Learning Performance in the Presence of Temporal Dataset Shift in Clinical Medicine
May 01, 2023

J. Lemmon, et al.

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Harvard professor: DataPerf and AI’s need for data benchmarks
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Harvard professor: DataPerf and AI’s need for data benchmarks

Harvard Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi’s presentation: “DataPerf: Benchmarks for data” from Snorkel AI’s 2022 Future of Data-Centric AI event.

Apr 25, 2023
Learn more about Harvard professor: DataPerf and AI’s need for data benchmarks
Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
We introduce compositional soft prompting (CSP), a parameter-efficient learning technique to improve the zero-shot compositionality of large-scale pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP. We develop CSP for compositional zero-shot learning, the task of predicting unseen attribute-object compositions (e.g., old cat and young tiger). VLMs have a flexible text encoder that can represent arbitrary classes as natural language prompts but they often underperform taskspecific architectures on the compositional zero-shot benchmark datasets. CSP treats the attributes and objects that define classes as learnable tokens of vocabulary. During training, the vocabulary is tuned to recognize classes that compose tokens in multiple ways (e.g.,...
Research Paper
Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

We introduce compositional soft prompting (CSP), a parameter-efficient learning technique to improve the zero-shot compositionality of large-scale pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP. We develop CSP for compositional zero-shot learning, the task of predicting unseen attribute-object compositions (e.g., old cat and young tiger). VLMs have a flexible text encoder that can represent arbitrary classes as natural language prompts but they…

Apr 24, 2023

N. Nayak et al.

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Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes
A long standing goal of the data management community is to develop general, automated systems that ingest semi-structured documents and output queryable tables without human effort or domain specific customization. Given the sheer variety of potential documents, state-of-the art systems make simplifying assumptions and use domain specific training. In this work, we ask whether we can maintain generality by using large language models (LLMs). LLMs, which are pretrained on broad data, can perform diverse downstream tasks simply conditioned on natural language task descriptions. We propose and evaluate EVAPORATE, a simple, prototype system powered by LLMs. We identify two fundamentally different...
Research Paper
Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes

A long standing goal of the data management community is to develop general, automated systems that ingest semi-structured documents and output queryable tables without human effort or domain specific customization. Given the sheer variety of potential documents, state-of-the art systems make simplifying assumptions and use domain specific training. In this work, we ask whether we can maintain generality by using…

Apr 21, 2023

S. Arora, et al.

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Discovering climate change impact  with Snorkel-enabled NLP
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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.

Apr 18, 2023
Learn more about Discovering climate change impact with Snorkel-enabled NLP
AMA technique: a trick to build systems with foundation models
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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.

Apr 13, 2023
Learn more about AMA technique: a trick to build systems with foundation models
Coactive AI’s CEO: quality beats quantity for data selection
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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.

Apr 11, 2023
Learn more about Coactive AI’s CEO: quality beats quantity for data selection
Boost foundation model results with linear probing and fine-tuning
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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.

Apr 05, 2023
Learn more about Boost foundation model results with linear probing and fine-tuning
New research expands limitations of weak supervision, foundation models
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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.

Mar 24, 2023
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