Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Law and Computer Science: Final project presentations.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Fine-Tune Wav2Vec2 for English ASR in Hugging Face with 🤗 Transformers.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Hugging Face Reads, Feb. 2021 - Long-range Transformers.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Michael Wooldridge Wins 2021 Outstanding Educator Award.
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar models learn.
February 26, 2021 Vector researchers are busy readying themselves for the 2021 edition of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), which kicks off March 3 and […] The post Co-led by Vector Research Director Richard Zemel, ACM FAccT Conference emphasizes the importance of fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI appeared first on Vector Institute for Art
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Simple considerations for simple people building fancy neural networks.
Designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the new “Bias in AI” program aims to deliver technical skills for reducing implicit and explicit bias in Natural Language Processing & Computer Vision February 22, […] The post Vector Institute Launches Program to Help SMEs Reduce Bias in AI appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
And may have just innovated its way to major new energy savings February 17, 2021 By Jonathan Woods Everything in this small, nondescript datacentre comes in singles. There’s one server, […] The post A TELUS AI agent approached sustainability like a chess game appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Retrieval Augmented Generation with Huggingface Transformers and Ray.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Hugging Face on PyTorch / XLA TPUs.
February 8, 2021 By Jonathan Woods “Vivek Goel has dedicated his career to the improvement of Canadians’ lives. He’s renowned for his relentless focus on the betterment of our community, […] The post Vector Board Member Vivek Goel appointed to the Order of Canada appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Cristian Trovato writes top paper for Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Understanding the capabilities, limitations, and societal impact of large language models.
January 28, 2021 Today, the Vector Institute released its first annual Ontario AI Snapshot, published in partnership with Deloitte Canada, based on market research that included a survey of executives […] The post Vector Institute Releases First Annual Ontario AI Snapshot appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Faster TensorFlow models in Hugging Face Transformers.
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Fit More and Train Faster With ZeRO via DeepSpeed and FairScale.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering How we sped up transformer inference 100x for 🤗 API customers.
We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
We’re introducing a neural network called CLIP which efficiently learns visual concepts from natural language supervision. CLIP can be applied to any visual classification benchmark by simply providing the names of the visual categories to be recognized, similar to the “zero-shot” capabilities of GPT-2 and GPT-3.
It’s been a year of dramatic change and growth at OpenAI.
December 22, 2020 Vector Institute is pleased to announce that 72 faculty holding appointments at universities across Ontario have been appointed as 2020 Faculty Affiliates. The 2020 cohort is a […] The post Vector welcomes 2020 cohort of Faculty Affiliates appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
December 21, 2020 This year’s TMLS Annual Conference & Expo featured real-life experiences from the global machine learning community, including several presenters from the Vector Institute: The post VECTOR TALKS AT TMLS 2020 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
December 16, 2020 Developing and employing natural language processing (NLP) models in industry has become progressively more challenging as model complexity increases, data sets grow in size, and computational requirements […] The post Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP): Insights from Vector’s industry-academic collaborative project appeared first on Vector Institute for Ar
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Researchers to investigate Quantum Computing for the music industry.
December 11, 2020 As an undergraduate, Vector scholarship recipient Rachel Theriault brought AI and analytical chemistry together to investigate breast cancer. Her early work has gained recognition. Theriault’s undergraduate thesis […] The post Vector Scholarship in AI winner recognized for bringing AI to cancer analysis appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Xin Zhou awarded Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering DeepMind offer four scholarships at Oxford University for under-represented students.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Alumnus Jamie Frost wins international teaching award.
DPhil student Konrad Kollnig reveals the development of a new privacy app TrackerControl, created in the Department of Computer Science's Human Centred research group.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Law and Computer Science students working together, again.
Jamie, whose career has taken an unusual turn as online teaching sensation @DrFrostMaths, talks about his time studying at Oxford
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New graduate funding opportunities for under-represented groups, including new Black Academic Futures scholarships for DPhil/PhD.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering ACM International Conference success.
DPhil student Ge Wang looks at the rapid adoption and increasing reliance on parental control apps and their efficacy
November 30, 2020 Vector Institute extends its sincere condolences to the family and colleagues of Pearl Sullivan, the former Dean of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering from 2012 […] The post Vector Institute extends condolences to the family and colleagues of Pearl Sullivan appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
By Ian GormelyNovember 27, 2020 Vector researchers are once again preparing for the premier machine learning conference, the 34th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). This year’s conference, […] The post Vector research community preps for virtual NeurIPS 2020 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Graduate Open Day.
Nov 18, 2020, 10:31 ET Roche partners with AI leaders Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute to drive digital transformation in health MISSISSAUGA, ON, Nov. 18, 2020 /CNW/ – Hoffmann-La Roche Limited […] The post Roche Canada Launches National Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford report released as part of World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity 2020.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering BCS Lovelace Medal 2020: awarded to Prof Ian Horrocks & Prof Michael Wooldridge.
Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash November 10, 2020 By Jonathan Woods In early 2020, Manulife data scientists from across the globe attended the firm’s first NLP Academy. That Academy ― a four-day […] The post The Genesis of Manulife’s NLP Academy appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Leveraging Pre-trained Language Model Checkpoints for Encoder-Decoder Models.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering DeepMind funds new post at Oxford University – the DeepMind Professorship of Artificial Intelligence.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Innovate UK Soteria Project.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Joel Ouaknine and James Worrell awarded the Salomaa Prize.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Porting fairseq wmt19 translation system to transformers.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Hyperparameter Search with Transformers and Ray Tune.
For the third year running the University of Oxford has been ranked first in the world for Computer Science in The Times Higher Education 2021 World University Rankings
PhishAR builds on the work of Professor Ivan Martinovic and Dr Ivo Sluganovic from Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, and employs augmented reality to crack down on “phishing”, an online scamming technique which fools a user into handing over their digital security credentials and other sensitive information, such as personal data or credit card details.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Black History Month 2020.
Vector Faculty Member and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Graham Taylor is Next AI’s Academic Director By Ian Gormely October 19, 2020 Jennifer Arnold had enjoyed a successful two decade run […] The post Researchers and startups converge in Toronto AI ecosystem appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Scientists discover the unique signature of a lion’s roar using machine learning.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Transformer-based Encoder-Decoder Models.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Professor Ian Horrocks wins Test-of-Time award at KR2020.
OpenAI has agreed to license GPT-3 to Microsoft for their own products and services.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marcin Wrochna recipient of the 2020 Open Mind Prize in Combinatorics.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering Block Sparse Matrices for Smaller and Faster Language Models.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Generative language modeling for automated theorem proving.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Department team win Marco Cadoli Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up at conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
We’ve applied reinforcement learning from human feedback to train language models that are better at summarization.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marta Kwiatkowska invited to join Responsible AI Working Group of the GPAI initiative.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Increasing the effectiveness of limited testing resources in developing countries.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Thesis awarded the runner-up at the ACP Doctoral Research Award.
Vector Institute Establishes New AI Engineering Team to Ramp up Applied AI for Sponsors and Partners August 26, 2020 The Vector Institute is establishing an AI engineering team, comprising highly-skilled […] The post Vector Institute Establishes New AI Engineering Team to Ramp up Applied AI for Sponsors and Partners appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash August 12, 2020 Unlike startups and tech giants with AI-first strategies, most companies don’t have AI labs and teams singularly dedicated to finding AI […] The post Key ingredients companies need to successfully integrate AI appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
The 2020 edition of the Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI) was held last week, bringing together academic and industrial researchers and students from a host of fields including statistics, […] The post Vector researchers take leadership role at Conference on Uncertainty in AI appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash August 10, 2020 By Ian Gormely From music discovery to finance, we interact with AI every day, often without even knowing it. Yet, as […] The post Vector researcher develops fairness model that accounts for individual preferences appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
With a big vision, Toronto founders can attract AI talent from Silicon Valley Insights from Radical Ventures & Vector Institute July 30, 2020 Recent uncertainty surrounding H1-B and work visas […] The post With a big vision, Toronto founders can attract AI talent from Silicon Valley appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
By Ian Gormely “The internet never forgets,” was once thought to be a foundational truism of life online. But a spate of legal rulings have challenged that notion, and the […] The post Unlearning appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Departmental Teaching awards announced.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marina Jirotka has been Highly Commended in the Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards.
ACM CHIL is the brainchild of Vector faculty member Marzyeh Ghassemi. The inaugural ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) kicks off Thursday, July 23rd, 2020. Originally scheduled to […] The post Vector researchers co-lead first ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Our third class of OpenAI Scholars presented their final projects at virtual Demo Day, showcasing their research results from over the past five months.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Best paper in category at Information Hiding and Multimedia Security conference.
This year’s edition of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be a virtual one, running Sunday, July 13th through Saturday, July 18th. ICML is one of the world’s […] The post Vector researchers prep for ICML 2020 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Thomas Lukasiewicz elected fellow of EurAI.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New report calls for urgent action to meet escalating cyber security challenges of industrial IOT.
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Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Edith Elkind elected to AAAI Executive Council.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering The Reformer - Pushing the limits of language modeling.
Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi leads a team that is among those receiving COVID-19 research funding through the Canadian Institutes for Health Reserach’s Rapid Research Response program. The team, which […] The post Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi among those receiving CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Response funding appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We’re excited to announce that OpenAI is co-organizing two NeurIPS 2020 competitions with AIcrowd, Carnegie Mellon University, and DeepMind, using Procgen Benchmark and MineRL.
Read the full strategy June 18, 2020 Update from President & CEO Garth Gibson: I’m excited to announce the Vector Institute’s new three-year strategy. This strategy will guide our continuing […] The post Unveiling the Vector Institute’s new three-year strategy appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
By Ian Gormely The ability to build and train neural networks remains out of reach for many individuals and organizations because of the large amount of data, time and compute […] The post VECTOR RESEARCHERS PRESENT “FIRST OF ITS KIND” AI-POWERED SEARCH ENGINE FOR AI AT CVPR 2020 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
By Ian Gormely A group of researchers, including Vector Faculty Member Bo Wang, have developed the COVID-19 Genotyping Tool (CGT), which tracks the viral genome evolution of the current COVID-19 […] The post VECTOR RESEARCHER BO WANG DEVELOPS TOOL TO TRACK GENETIC EVOLUTION OF COVID-19 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
June 17, 2020 A simple maxim guides how the BMO AI Capabilities Team works: increased model performance is related directly to increased revenue and decreased costs and enhancing customers’ banking […] The post With Vector, BMO trains a new leading-edge deep learning model for Finance – and wants to use it where it counts most appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples. By establishing a correlation between sample quality and image classification accuracy, we show that our best generative model also contains features competitive with top convolutional nets in the unsupe
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Daniel Kroening awarded funding for UKRI Digital Security by Design project.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Best Paper Award at ICDT.
We’re releasing an API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Paper: Dual transcriptomic and molecular machine learning predicts all major clinical forms of drug cardiotoxicity.
June 4, 2020 Statement from President & CEO Garth Gibson To the Vector community and our colleagues around the world: I have had occasion to speak with several of you […] The post We must do more appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Navenio announces £9m in Series A funding for its efficiency-boosting location technology.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Language models are few-shot learners.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford team wins Best Paper at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
Vector Institute Announces Third Round of Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence Recipients The Vector Institute is pleased to congratulate the third round of Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence recipients. These […] The post Vector Scholarship in AI Announcement appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Clare Lyle named as Open Phil AI Fellow.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Air traffic surveillance data used in analysis by Bank of England.
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