Building the howto100m Video Corpus
Video annotation is an expensive and time-consuming process. As a consequence, the available video datasets are useful but small. The availability of machine transcribed explainer videos offers a uniq...
19 Aug 201922min
BERT
Kyle provides a non-technical overview of why Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a powerful tool for natural language processing projects.
29 Juli 201913min
Onnx
Kyle interviews Prasanth Pulavarthi about the Onnx format for deep neural networks.
22 Juli 201920min
Catastrophic Forgetting
Kyle and Linhda discuss some high level theory of mind and overview the concept machine learning concept of catastrophic forgetting.
15 Juli 201921min
Transfer Learning
Sebastian Ruder is a research scientist at DeepMind. In this episode, he joins us to discuss the state of the art in transfer learning and his contributions to it.
8 Juli 201929min
Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language
In 2017, Facebook published a paper called Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues. In this research, the reinforcement learning agents developed a mechanism of communication (w...
21 Juni 201923min
Under Resourced Languages
Priyanka Biswas joins us in this episode to discuss natural language processing for languages that do not have as many resources as those that are more commonly studied such as English. Successful NL...
15 Juni 201916min
Named Entity Recognition
Kyle and Linh Da discuss the class of approaches called "Named Entity Recognition" or NER. NER algorithms take any string as input and return a list of "entities" - specific facts and agents in the t...
8 Juni 201917min
