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Vision and impact

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 benchmarks, conversations, and research for real-world AI performance.

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Backed by a $3M commitment, the program funds
open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation artifacts that shape how frontier AI systems are built
and evaluated.

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Bench Talks

Our podcast series at the intersection of AI evaluation, data quality, and real-world impact.
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Reading Group

A recurring forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the latest frontier developments in AI while building meaningful connections within the community.

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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How Foundation Models bolster programmatic labeling
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How Foundation Models bolster programmatic labeling

Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner interviews Mayee Chen about how Liger improves the effectiveness of programmatic labeling through foundation model embeddings.

Jan 26, 2023
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Unmasking Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning
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Unmasking Trafficking Risk in Commercial Sex Supply Chains with Machine Learning

Hamsa Bastani presented a summary of her and her co-authors’ ongoing work using machine learning and Snorkel AI’s tools to detect and track activities that are associated with a high risk for global sex trafficking.

Jan 20, 2023
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Prompting and weak supervision to build better, smaller models
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Prompting and weak supervision to build better, smaller models

Snorkel AI co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner recently interviewed several Snorkel researchers about their published academic papers. In this video, Alex talks with Ryan Smith, Senior Applied Scientist at Snorkel, about the work he did on using foundation models to build compact, deployable, and effective models.

Jan 19, 2023
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FM Summit shows Foundation Model hurdles and potential
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FM Summit shows Foundation Model hurdles and potential

Snorkel AI held its Foundation Model Summit Jan 17, bringing together 12 presenters and over 600 attendees at 10 virtual sessions. The event drew registrants from across many sectors, including the tech industry, healthcare, and financial services.

Jan 18, 2023
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Contrastive Learning boosts Foundation Model specialization
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Contrastive Learning boosts Foundation Model specialization

Snorkel AI co-founder and CEO Alex Ratner talks with Ananya Kumar about the work he did on improving the effectiveness of foundation models by using contrastive learning, image augmentations, and labeled subsamples.

Jan 13, 2023
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Ask Me Anything approach bolsters foundation models
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Ask Me Anything approach bolsters foundation models

Researcher Simran Arora tells Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner how she improved foundation model effectiveness by using “Ask Me Anything”-style questions.

Jan 04, 2023
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Investigating Real-world Consequences of Biases in Commonly Used Clinical Calculators
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Investigating Real-world Consequences of Biases in Commonly Used Clinical Calculators
Jan 01, 2023

RM. Yoo, et al.

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Combining human and artificial intelligence with human-in-the-loop ML | FDCAI
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Combining human and artificial intelligence with human-in-the-loop ML | FDCAI

More components in an ML lifecycle are designed to run on autopilot, but some tasks require human-in-the-loop ML, an active research topic that has seen an increasing number of publications in the last 10 years.

Dec 28, 2022
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Seven research papers push foundation model boundaries
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Seven research papers push foundation model boundaries

The recent debut of ChatGPT astounded the public with the power and speed of foundation models, but their enterprise use remains hampered by adaptation and deployment challenges. In the past year, Snorkel AI has researched several ways to overcome those challenges. 

Dec 15, 2022
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