​ In a revolutionary leap forward, generative retrieval approaches have emerged as a disruptive paradigm in information retrieval methods. Harnessing the potential of advanced sequence-to-sequence Transformer models, these approaches aim to transform how we retrieve information from vast document corpora. Traditionally limited to smaller datasets,… Read More »Scaling Generative Retrieval: Google Research and University of Waterloo’s Empirical Study on Generative Retrieval Across Diverse Corpus Scales, Including a Deep Dive into the 8.8M-Passage MS MARCO Task Niharika Singh Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ Neural networks have advanced quite significantly in recent years, and they have found themselves a use case in almost all applications. One of the most interesting use cases is the 3D modeling of the real world. We have seen neural radiance fields (NeRFs) that… Read More »The AI Cousin of Michelangelo: Neuralangelo is an AI Model That can Achieve High-Fidelity 3D Surface Reconstruction Ekrem Çetinkaya Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ Recent video-language models’ (VidLMs) performance on various video-language tasks has been outstanding. Such multimodal models only come with drawbacks. For example, it is shown that vision-language models have difficulty understanding compositional and order relations in images, treating images as collections of objects, and that… Read More »Do Video-Language Models Understand Actions? If Not, How To Fix It? Meet Paxion: A Novel Framework For Patching Action Knowledge in Video-Language Foundation Models Aneesh Tickoo Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ Language gives humans an extraordinary level of general intellect and sets them apart from all other creatures. Importantly, language not only helps people interact with others better, but it also improves our capacity to think. Before discussing the advantages of language-thinking agents, which have… Read More »AI Agents Can Learn to Think While Acting: A New AI Research Introduces A Novel Imitation Learning Framework Called Thought Cloning Aneesh Tickoo Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ Some industry insiders claim that the most useful applications of artificial intelligence in video games are the ones that go under the radar. Artificial intelligence video games are always evolving. Each kind of game will use AI in its unique way. AI programs the… Read More »Best AI Games (2023) Prathamesh Ingle Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ One of the biggest obstacles facing automated speech recognition (ASR) systems is their inability to adapt to novel, unbounded domains. Audiovisual ASR (AV-ASR) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy of ASR systems in multimodal video, especially when the audio is loud. This feature… Read More »Exploring AVFormer: Google AI’s Innovative Approach to Augment Audio-Only Models with Visual Information & Streamlined Domain Adaptation Dhanshree Shripad Shenwai Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ Powerful AI models may now be operated and interacted with via language commands, making them widely available and adaptable. Stable Diffusion, which transforms natural language into a picture, and ChatGPT, which can reply to messages written in natural language and carry out various tasks,… Read More »Meet STEVE-1: An Instructable Generative AI Model For Minecraft That Follows Both Text And Visual Instructions And Only Costs $60 To Train Aneesh Tickoo Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​ Training large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters can be challenging. In addition to designing the model architecture, researchers need to set up state-of-the-art training techniques for distributed training like mixed precision support, gradient accumulation, and checkpointing. With large models, the training setup… Read More »Accelerate PyTorch with DeepSpeed to train large language models with Intel Habana Gaudi-based DL1 EC2 instances Mahadevan Balasubramaniam AWS Machine Learning Blog

​Posted by Thibault Sellam, Research Scientist, Google Previously, we presented the 1,000 languages initiative and the Universal Speech Model with the goal of making speech and language technologies available to billions of users around the world. Part of this commitment involves developing high-quality speech synthesis… Read More »Evaluating speech synthesis in many languages with SQuId Google AI Google AI Blog