A couple of days ago, I got this phishing message on Linkedin The English is pretty bad and the location of the person in Africa makes it suspicious. It immediately jumped to my mind that this is a great opportunity to test reverse image search capabilities to check the legitimacy of the sender. Starting with Microsoft Image search I got this non helpful answer: Namely similar poses but wrong…
Here is my latest blog post on medium: https://medium.com/@amiralush/large-image-datasets-today-are-a-mess-e3ea4c9e8d22
I found this cool YC21 Belgian small startup called segments.ai . It seems they have a good technique for automating manual tagging process:
Following the announcement from Prof. Oren Etzioni about their new Macaw NLP model which should be up to 10% better than OpenAI's model, I spent a fun afternoon playing with the released model . So far 3 models have been released: large, 3b and 11b. Documentation says large is a lightweight model (indeed a good naming convention here) and should not be fully trusted, the other ones are 3b (medium)…
I recently found this paper: BebopNet: Deep Neural Models for Personalized Jazz Improvisations, by Shunit Haviv Hakimi, Nadav Bhonker, Ran El-Yaniv from the Technion. It uses deep learning approach to teach a machine to improvise when playing Jazz. The paper won the best paper award at ISMIR 2020. The results are pretty cool. The level of improvisation is pretty good but I hear a little…
My friend Sagie Davidovich, CEO SparkBeyond, has shown me the following amazing demo: SparkBeyond crawled hundreds of billions of Internet pages, papers, patents and social media site to build one of the largest available knowledge graphs. Based on this data it is possible to ask natural language questions about the knowledge and get aggregated knowledge summary. Unlike Google search where you…
I found some recent news about Colossal a new startup that wants to revive extinct Mammoth to fight the global warming. Fighting global warming is one of the best things we can do, especially that one of the co-founders is Prof. George Chruch from Harvard Medical School, a very credible authority on gene editing. Church is one of the inventors of Crispr , a gene editing tool that can cut and paste…
The Israeli Machine Vision Conference is coming up next month on October 26. One of the interesting papers reported there will be the transformer visualization work I wrote on last week.
A nice and recent paper from Lior Wolf's lab at Tel Aviv University: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.15679.pdf by Hila Chefer, Shir Gur and Lior Wolf. The problem is very simple: given a transformer encoder/ decoder network, we would like to visualize the affect of attention on the image. While the problem is simple the answer is pretty complicated: we need to take into account attention matrices from…
I have stumbled upon this nice tutorial : which interactively visualizes Gaussian Belief Propagation. What is nice about it that the authors spent time to make an interactive tutorial that you can play with. As a grad student I was totally excited about Gaussian Belief Propagation and spend a large chunk of my PhD thesis on it. In a nutshell it is an iterative algorithm for solving a set of linear…
This is totally amazing: As someone who works on manufacturing automation with robotics and vision, I can say this is a very complicated task since the robot has to distinguish by a 2D image between the right crop and weeds. Also the laser shooting of the weeds is awesome! After one minute of digging I found out I know Nick Kirsch who is a director at Carbon Robotics and was an executive intern in…
Today I found (slightly late) that Prof. Eric Xing from Carnegie Mellon MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) as their President late last year. Eric is a well known professor which I know from my CMU days, who was the CEO of Petuum , a Parameter Server like implementation for scaling up machine learning. From MBZUAI website: MBZUAI is the world’s first graduate-level,…
AI21 is a research lab is the Israeli equivalent OpenAI, founded by several machine learning luminaries including Prof. Amnon Shashua (MobileEye, Orcam, Digial Bank) who is a Prof at the Hebrew University. (Amnon was my lecturer for the ML course, which was an amazing course and he is an amazing person as well). This week AI21 announced the release of the largest NLP model called Jurassic-1 . It…
I recently stumbled upon Yannic's Youtube Channel and I was totally blown away. Yannic is a fresh PhD out of ETH Zurich and he has few dozens of recent deep learning papers explained amazingly well. Both the selection of papers is smart, as well as the explanation of the content. In addition for some of the papers he adds personal comments and critics about the papers claims which really make…
My friend Ely Porat sent me the following registration notice for the deep learning and AR/VR Autumn courses: https://sites.google.com/datalab.cs.biu.ac.il/biusummerschool/home?authuser=0 Registration is pretty low and you can get academic credit from Bar Ilan University.
My friend Assaf Araki from Intel invited me to give a hand organizing the Israeli AI Week . We are looking for talks from innovative companies and machine learning researchers. The AI - Week in Tel Aviv is a nationwide community event organized by representatives from the Academia, Government, Industry and NGOs. AI week will bring together ~2000 AI researchers and practitioners from Israel and…
This Tuesday Prof. Oren Etsioni announced on his keynote talk at the Data Science Summit, that the Seattle Allen Institute opens an Israeli Branch : Prof. Yoav Goldberg from Bar Ilan is heading the research effort, with focus on NLP.
My friend Assaf Araki is organizing the AI Week Nov 17-21 at Tel Aviv University. It is going to be the first national AI event with around 2000 participants. Dr. Ben Lorica, chief scientist of O'Reilly will be one of the speakers along with Prof. Amnon Shashua, CEO of MobileEye. Another interesting event is the AI Data Science Summit - May 21 in Jerusalem. It is a follow up event organized by…
Hacking Deep Learning (Bar Ilan) Workshop Videos now online . Thanks for my friend Prof. Yossi Keshet for organizing and inviting me! One notable talk which is unfortunately missing from the videos is of Prof. Adi Shamir described in this paper . The work analysis how many pixels one should change to confuse a deep learning based classifier. The result is surprising - only a few! A related…
I got this from my friend Nick: This year, Tel Aviv will host UAI http://auai.org/uai2019/ (July 22-25). Several students have been able to attend the conference and present their work thanks to the generosity of your institutions. We hope that you will continue to support us this year as well. You can find more information about sponsorship packages here http://auai.org/uai2019/ sponsorships.php…
Data Artisans is the company behind Apache Flink - the European answer to Apache Spark. According to this news article Alibaba acquires Data Artisans. I wrote back in 2014 on Apache Flink project.
It is very exciting that after many years of hard work, we have finally released our machine learning framework as open source! The announcement made yesterday at NIPS by Prof. Carlos Guestrin: And here is our github link: https://github.com/apple/turicreate
My friend Joseph (Yossi) Keshet have recently released work for fooling deep learning systems. His work got a lot of attendion including MIT Technology Review and the New Scientist . Nice work!!
According to VentureBeat Dataiku just raised 28M$ . Dataiku has a web based platform for data science. Here is my personal connection. Strangely last time I wed a couple I was wearing their t-shirt. Unrelated, I just learned from my colleague Brian that Cloudera just acquired Fast Forward Labs , which is the company behind Hilary Mason. I visited Hilary in her offices a couple of years ago and…
A very interesting podcast by Sam Charrington who is interviewing Scott Stephenson from DeepGram . DeepGram is using deep learning activations for creating indexes that allows to search text in voice recordings. DeepGram have released Kur which is a high level abstraction of deep learning framework to allow quickly defining network layouts. But still, writing the target persona is researchers with…