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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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Weak Supervision in Biomedicine

In this episode of Science Talks, Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock chats with Jason Fries – a research scientist at Stanford University’s Biomedical Informatics Research lab and Snorkel Research, and one of the first contributors to the Snorkel open-source library. We discuss Jason’s path into machine learning, empowering doctors and scientists with weak supervision, and utilizing organizational resources in biomedical applications of Snorkel. This episode is part…

Jun 16, 2021
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Curiosity-Driven Learning for Physically Grounded Autonomous Agents
The human ability to solve complex manipulation tasks is based on a flexible generalizable understanding of intuitive physics mostly learned through curiosity-driven self-play during infancy. We aim to replicate such interactive learning in artificial agents to achieve the same flexibility and generalizability when solving complex manipulation tasks. For that purpose, we introduce a general framework for learning intuitive physics through curiosity-driven self-play for artificial agents. Within this framework, we demonstrate how object-centric representations can greatly improve intuitive physics predictions and support stochastic predictions of complex physical scenes modeling uncertainty, and then show that object-centric physics prediction models can be trained...
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Curiosity-Driven Learning for Physically Grounded Autonomous Agents

The human ability to solve complex manipulation tasks is based on a flexible generalizable understanding of intuitive physics mostly learned through curiosity-driven self-play during infancy. We aim to replicate such interactive learning in artificial agents to achieve the same flexibility and generalizability when solving complex manipulation tasks. For that purpose, we introduce a general framework for learning intuitive physics through…

Jun 01, 2021

D. Mrowca

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Training Classifiers With Natural Language Explanations

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, our Co-founder and Head of Technology. Braden Hancock…

May 24, 2021
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Applying Information Theory to ML With Fred Sala

In this episode of Science Talks, Frederic Sala – an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a research scientist at Snorkel discusses his path into machine learning, the central thesis that ties together his multidisciplinary research, his thoughts on the future of weak supervision, as well as his decision to go into academia.

May 19, 2021
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Adversarial Multiclass Learning under Weak Supervision with Performance Guarantees
This paper presents a rigorous approach for using a set of arbitrarily correlated weak supervision sources in order to solve a multiclass classification task when only a very small set of labeled data is available
Research Paper
Adversarial Multiclass Learning under Weak Supervision with Performance Guarantees

This paper presents a rigorous approach for using a set of arbitrarily correlated weak supervision sources in order to solve a multiclass classification task when only a very small set of labeled data is available

May 11, 2021
Snorkel Team
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3 Impractical Assumptions About AI to Avoid

Impractical ML assumptions are made every day in research, which limit its adoption. In the real world, these assumptions do not hold up. Learn more about how to avoid making these assumptions about AI application development.

May 04, 2021
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Reference-based Weak Supervision for Answer Sentence Selection using Web Data
This work showcases the Reference-based Weak Supervision (RWS), a fully automatic large-scale data pipeline that harvests high-quality weakly- supervised answer sentences from Web data, only requiring a question-reference pair as input.
Research Paper
Reference-based Weak Supervision for Answer Sentence Selection using Web Data

This work showcases the Reference-based Weak Supervision (RWS), a fully automatic large-scale data pipeline that harvests high-quality weakly- supervised answer sentences from Web data, only requiring a question-reference pair as input.

Apr 28, 2021

V. Krishnamurthy, et al

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WRENCH: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Weak Supervision
This paper introduces a benchmark platform, WRENCH, for thorough and standardized evaluation of WS approaches.
Research Paper
WRENCH: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Weak Supervision

This paper introduces a benchmark platform, WRENCH, for thorough and standardized evaluation of WS approaches.

Apr 26, 2021

J. Zhang, et al

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Comparing the Value of Labeled and Unlabeled Data in Method-of-Moments Latent Variable Estimation
Labeling data for modern machine learning is expensive and time-consuming. Latent variable models can be used to infer labels from weaker, easier-to-acquire sources operating on unlabeled data. Such models can also be trained using labeled data, presenting a key question: should a user invest in few labeled or many unlabeled points? We answer this via a framework centered on model misspecification in method-of-moments latent variable estimation. Our core result is a bias-variance decomposition of the generalization error, which shows that the unlabeled-only approach incurs additional bias under misspecification. We then introduce a correction that provably removes this bias in certain...
Research Paper
Comparing the Value of Labeled and Unlabeled Data in Method-of-Moments Latent Variable Estimation

Labeling data for modern machine learning is expensive and time-consuming. Latent variable models can be used to infer labels from weaker, easier-to-acquire sources operating on unlabeled data. Such models can also be trained using labeled data, presenting a key question: should a user invest in few labeled or many unlabeled points? We answer this via a framework centered on model…

Mar 18, 2021

M. Chen, et al.

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