Neural Networks

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Cross-Species Cell Embeddings: AI enhances cell type discovery, identifies previously elusive "Norn cells"
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Cross-Species Cell Embeddings: AI enhances cell type discovery, identifies previously elusive "Norn cells"

Researchers used an AI system to identify animal cell types from gene sequences, including a cell type that conventional approaches had discovered only in the past year. 
Better, Faster Network Pruning: Researchers devise pruning method that boosts AI speed
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Better, Faster Network Pruning: Researchers devise pruning method that boosts AI speed

Pruning weights from a neural network makes it smaller and faster, but it can take a lot of computation to choose weights that can be removed without degrading the network’s performance.
Early Detection for Pancreatic Cancer: A neural network shows remarkable accuracy in forecasting risk of pancreatic cancer.
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Early Detection for Pancreatic Cancer: A neural network shows remarkable accuracy in forecasting risk of pancreatic cancer.

A neural network detected early signs of pancreatic cancer more effectively than doctors who used the usual risk-assessment criteria. Researchers at MIT and oncologists at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston...
SingSong's process for manufacturing instrumental music to accompany input vocals.
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Sing a Tune, Generate an Accompaniment: SingSong, a tool that generates instrumental music for unaccompanied input vocals

A neural network makes music for unaccompanied vocal tracks. Chris Donahue, Antoine Caillon, Adam Roberts, and colleagues at Google proposed SingSong, a system that generates musical accompaniments for sung melodies. You can listen to its output here.
Deep Learning Discovers Antibiotics: Researchers used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics.
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Deep Learning Discovers Antibiotics: Researchers used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics.

Biologists used neural networks to find a new class of antibiotics. Researchers at MIT and Harvard trained models to screen chemical compounds for those that kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the deadliest among bacteria that have...
Assembly pseudocode before and after applying the AlphaDev swap move
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AI Builds Better Sorting Algorithms: AlphaDev, a new system for high-speed sorting of lists and numbers

Online sorting algorithms run trillions of times a day to organize lists according to users’ interests. New work found faster alternatives. Daniel J. Mankowitz and colleagues at Google developed AlphaDev, a system that learned to generate algorithms that sort three...
Surgeons performing brain surgery
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Guiding the Scalpel: Researchers trained neural networks to assist brain surgeons' real-time tumor removal decisions.

A neural network helped brain surgeons decide how much healthy tissue to cut out when removing tumors — while the patients were on the operating table.
Optimizer Without Hyperparameters: VeLO, the system that eliminates the need for optimizer hyperparameters
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Optimizer Without Hyperparameters: VeLO, the system that eliminates the need for optimizer hyperparameters

During training, a neural network usually updates its weights according to an optimizer that’s tuned using hand-picked hyperparameters. New work eliminates the need for optimizer hyperparameters.
Illustration of a robot with a captain costume
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Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.
One person pouring a drink of poison in the company of another person
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Logistic Regression: Follow the Curve — A Basic Introduction to Logistic Regression for Machine Learning

There was a moment when logistic regression was used to classify just one thing: If you drink a vial of poison, are you likely to be labeled “living” or “deceased”? Times have changed.

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