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Swin Transformer supports 3-billion-parameter vision models that can train with higher-resolution images for greater task applicability

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Swin Transformer, a Transformer-based general-purpose vision architecture, was further evolved to address challenges specific to large vision models. As a result, Swin Transformer is capable of training with images at higher resolutions, which allows for greater task applicability (left), and scaling models up to 3 billion parameters (right). Early last year, our research team from …

Startup lets doctors classify skin conditions with the snap of a picture

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At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would take three months to see a dermatologist. When the mole was finally removed and biopsied, doctors determined it was cancerous. At the time, no one could be sure the cancer hadn’t spread to other …

Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models

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Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model contribute to its prediction. For example, if a model predicts a patient’s risk of developing cardiac disease, a physician might want to know how strongly the patient’s heart rate data influences that prediction. But if …

Exploring emerging topics in artificial intelligence policy

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Members of the public sector, private sector, and academia convened for the second AI Policy Forum Symposium last month to explore critical directions and questions posed by artificial intelligence in our economies and societies. The virtual event, hosted by the AI Policy Forum (AIPF) — an undertaking by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to …

ICLR 2022 highlights from Microsoft Research Asia: Expanding the horizon of machine learning techniques and applications

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ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) is recognized as one of the top conferences in the field of deep learning. Many influential papers on artificial intelligence, statistics, and data science—as well as important application fields such as machine vision, speech recognition, and text understanding—have been published and presented at this conference. The following selection of …

Robots play with play dough

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The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, rubbery mixture of water, salt, and flour that put goo on the map: play dough. (Even if this happens rarely in adulthood.) While manipulating play dough is fun and easy for 2-year-olds, the shapeless …

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Taking the guesswork out of dental care with artificial intelligence

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When you picture a hospital radiologist, you might think of a specialist who sits in a dark room and spends hours poring over X-rays to make diagnoses. Contrast that with your dentist, who in addition to interpreting X-rays must also perform surgery, manage staff, communicate with patients, and run their business. When dentists analyze X-rays, …

Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving

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Hyper-realistic virtual worlds have been heralded as the best driving schools for autonomous vehicles (AVs), since they’ve proven fruitful test beds for safely trying out dangerous driving scenarios. Tesla, Waymo, and other self-driving companies all rely heavily on data to enable expensive and proprietary photorealistic simulators, since testing and gathering nuanced I-almost-crashed data usually isn’t …

DoWhy evolves to independent PyWhy model to help causal inference grow

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Identifying causal effects is an integral part of scientific inquiry. It helps us understand everything from educational outcomes to the effects of social policies to risk factors for diseases. Questions of cause-and-effect are also critical for the design and data-driven evaluation of many technological systems we build today. To help data scientists better understand and …

Artificial neural networks model face processing in autism

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Many of us easily recognize emotions expressed in others’ faces. A smile may mean happiness, while a frown may indicate anger. Autistic people often have a more difficult time with this task. It’s unclear why. But new research, published June 15 in The Journal of Neuroscience, sheds light on the inner workings of the brain …