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Machine listening: Making speech recognition systems more inclusive
One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when imagining talking to a voice assistant, compared to talking to a...
InternVL 1.5 Advances Multimodal AI with High-Resolution and Bilingual Capabilities in Open-Source Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) integrate text and visual data processing to enhance how artificial intelligence understands and interacts with the world. This area of research focuses on creating systems that can comprehend and respond to a combination of...
REBEL: A Reinforcement Learning RL Algorithm that Reduces the Problem of RL to Solving a Sequence of Relative Reward Regression Problems on Iteratively Collected Datasets
Initially designed for continuous control tasks, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has become widely used in reinforcement learning (RL) applications, including fine-tuning generative models. However, PPO’s effectiveness relies on multiple heuristics for stable...
Trotting robots reveal emergence of animal gait transitions
A four-legged robot trained with machine learning has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking -- a milestone for roboticists as well as biologists interested in animal locomotion.
Hippocrates: An Open-Source Machine Learning Framework for Advancing Large Language Models in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, bringing sophisticated computational techniques to bear on challenges ranging from diagnostics to treatment planning. In this dynamic field, large language models (LLMs) are emerging as powerful tools capable of...
Meet Electric Atlas: A New Era of Robotics by Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics has been at the forefront of robotics innovation for decades, and its latest offering—the fully electric Atlas robot—marks a significant milestone in the field. As it announces the retirement of its hydraulic Atlas, a new era begins with an electric...
