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Bigger is not better in machine learning

I heard an interview today featuring the Chief Scientist of Mosaic ML. One of the things Jonathan Frankle said is that bigger is not better. He, of course, is talking about machine model size (e.g., number of parameters). I posit that we can agree that bigger models may not

Security Robots

I recently learned that a Santa Fe high school is testing autonomous robots with multiple cameras to monitor the surrounding areas of the school to assist school security team. The autonomous robots learn the routes of the school, capture videos of the surroundings, and provide the footage to school'

Machine Learning and Audio Data

I was excited to see WSJ featuring Shazam. The 6-minute video explains how Shazam works, albeit in a simple manner. How Shazam Makes Unique Audio Fingerprints to Identify SongsMore than 23,000 songs are identified each minute by Shazam and the app has been used over 70 billion times. But

AI Generative Models are eating the world

Originally posted on September 21, 2022 My Berkeley co-instructor David Steier and I have been talking about large transformer and/or generative models for a while. We have seen many students using these large models and apply them in very interesting and creative ways to enable various meaningful use cases