April 20, 2024

AI

(Un)Objective Machines: A Look at Historical Bias in Machine Learning

A deep dive into biases in machine learning, with a focus on historical (or social) biases. Gretel Tan · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 3 days ago — Humans are biased. To anyone who has had to deal with bigoted individuals, unfair bosses, or oppressive systems — in other words, all of us — this is no surprise. We should thus welcome machine learning models which can help us

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Label Studio Customized Backend for Semiautomatic Image Segmentation Labeling

Customized backend; GCP Deployment; Data Versioning with GCS Integration Alison Yuhan Yao · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 13 min read · 12 hours ago — Image by Author Table of Contents · Introduction· Overview ∘ Goal ∘ Why semiautomatic? ∘ Entering Label Studio ∘ 1 frontend + 2 backends· Implementation (Local) ∘ 1. Install git and docker & download backend code ∘ 2. Set up frontend to get access token ∘ 3.

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The Math Behind “The Curse of Dimensionality”

Dive into the “Curse of Dimensionality” concept and understand the math behind all the surprising phenomena that arise in high dimensions. Maxime Wolf · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 12 hours ago — Image from Dall-E In the realm of machine learning, handling high-dimensional vectors is not just common; it’s essential. This is illustrated by the architecture of popular models like Transformers. For instance, BERT uses 768-dimensional vectors to

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Tiny Llama — a Performance Review and Discussion

Learn about TinyLlama, a smaller language model capable of a variety of complex tasks with a small amount of compute Eivind Kjosbakken · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 12 hours ago — TinyLlama is an open-source project that trains a small language model of around 1.1B parameters. The project aims to have a language model capable of performing tasks a full LLM like Llama 2 can achieve but with

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