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arxiv preprint - Textbooks Are All You Need

In this episode, we discuss Textbooks Are All You Need by Suriya Gunasekar, Yi Zhang, Jyoti Aneja, Caio César Teodoro Mendes, Allie Del Giorno, Sivakanth Gopi, Mojan Javaheripi, Piero Kauffmann, Gustavo de Rosa, Olli Saarikivi, Adil Salim, Shital Shah, Harkirat Singh Behl, Xin Wang, Sébastien Bubeck, Ronen Eldan, Adam Tauman Kalai, Yin Tat Lee, Yuanzhi Li. The paper introduces phi-1, a new language model for code that is smaller in size compared to other models. Despite its smaller scale, phi-1 performs well in accuracy tests and displays some surprising emergent properties. The study highlights the importance of high-quality data in improving the performance of large language models and reducing training requirements.

CVPR 2023 - Honorable mention award winner - DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering

In this episode, we discuss DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering by Zhengqi Li, Qianqian Wang, Forrester Cole, Richard Tucker, Noah Snavely. The paper presents a new approach called "DynIBaR" that can generate novel views from a monocular video of a dynamic scene. Existing methods struggle with complex object motions and uncontrolled camera paths, resulting in blurry or inaccurate renderings. DynIBaR addresses these limitations by using a volumetric image-based rendering framework that combines features from nearby views in a motion-aware manner, enabling the synthesis of photo-realistic views from long videos with complex dynamics and varied camera movements. The approach outperforms existing methods on dynamic scene datasets and is also applied successfully to challenging real-world videos with difficult camera and object motion.

Preprint: Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale

In this episode, we discuss Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale by Matthew Le, Apoorv Vyas, Bowen Shi, Brian Karrer, Leda Sari, Rashel Moritz,Mary Williamson, Vimal Manohar, Yossi Adi, Jay Mahadeokar, Wei-Ning Hsu from Meta AI. The paper "Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale" presents a breakthrough in generative modeling for speech, addressing the lack of scalability and task generalization in current speech generative models. The authors introduce Voicebox, a non-autoregressive flow-matching model trained on over 50K hours of speech that can perform mono or cross-lingual zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis, noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and diverse sample generation. Similar to large-scale generative models for language and vision, Voicebox can solve tasks not explicitly trained on through in-context learning. 

arxiv preprint - Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks

In this episode we discuss Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks
by Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West. The paper explores how large language models (LLMs) affect the reliability of human-generated data collected through crowdsourcing. The authors conducted a case study on Amazon Mechanical Turk to determine how often crowd workers utilized LLMs when performing an abstract summarization task. Using keystroke detection and synthetic text classification, the authors estimated that 33-46% of crowd workers employed LLMs while completing the task, indicating that human data may not always be exclusively human. As a result, the article proposes new techniques for guaranteeing that human data are truly human-generated.

CVPR 2023 - TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition

In this episode we discuss TimeBalance: Temporally-Invariant and Temporally-Distinctive Video Representations for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition
by Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah. The paper proposes a semi-supervised learning framework for action recognition using self-supervised video representations, called TimeBalance. They suggest using temporally-invariant and temporally-distinctive representations that complement each other for different types of actions. TimeBalance distills knowledge from both representations and dynamically combines them using a novel temporal similarity-based reweighting scheme. The approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on three action recognition benchmarks.

arxiv - AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking

In this episode we discuss AVIS: Autonomous Visual Information Seeking
by The author's name cannot be determined from the snippet provided as it only includes the title of the paper.. The paper introduces AVIS, an autonomous visual question-answering framework that utilizes a Large Language Model to strategically utilize external tools and provide answers to visual questions that require external knowledge. The framework includes a planner, reasoner, and working memory component that work together to analyze and extract key information from external tools. The collected user behavior serves as a guide for the system to enhance its decision-making capacity. AVIS achieves state-of-the-art results on knowledge-intensive visual question answering benchmarks.

CVPR 2023, award candidate - Data-driven Feature Tracking for Event Cameras

In this episode we discuss Data-driven Feature Tracking for Event Cameras
by Nico Messikommer, Carter Fang, Mathias Gehrig, Davide Scaramuzza. The paper details a data-driven feature tracking method for event cameras that improves upon existing techniques that require parameter tuning and struggle with noise and generalization. The proposed method utilizes a frame attention module to share information across feature tracks, resulting in improved performance with a 120% increase in relative feature age and lower latency compared to existing approaches. Multimedia materials and code are available to supplement the paper.

CVPR 2023 - SIEDOB: Semantic Image Editing by Disentangling Object and Background

In this episode we discuss SIEDOB: Semantic Image Editing by Disentangling Object and Background
by Wuyang Luo, Su Yang, Xinjian Zhang, Weishan Zhang. The paper presents a new method for semantic image editing called Semantic Image Editing by Disentangling Object and Background (SIEDOB). This method separates objects and backgrounds into separate subnetworks for more efficient processing by first decomposing the input into background regions and instance-level objects, which are then fed into dedicated generators. The paper also introduces innovative designs to produce high-quality edited images and outperforms existing methods in synthesizing realistic and diverse objects and texture-consistent backgrounds.

CVPR 2023 - GAPartNet: Cross-Category Domain-Generalizable Object Perception and Manipulation via Generalizable and Actionable Parts

In this episode we discuss GAPartNet: Cross-Category Domain-Generalizable Object Perception and Manipulation via Generalizable and Actionable Parts
by Haoran Geng, Helin Xu, Chengyang Zhao, Chao Xu, Li Yi, Siyuan Huang, He Wang. The paper proposes a method called Generalizable and Actionable Parts (GAParts) for learning cross-category domain-generalizable object perception and manipulation. This involves defining 9 GAPart classes to construct a part-centric interactive dataset named GAPartNet with rich part-level annotations for over 8,000 part instances on 1,166 objects. The authors investigate three cross-category tasks and propose a robust 3D segmentation method that integrates adversarial learning techniques to address domain gaps between seen and unseen object categories and manipulation heuristics that generalize well to unseen object categories in both the simulator and the real world.

CVPR 2023 - Improving Image Recognition by Retrieving from Web-Scale Image-Text Data

In this episode we discuss Improving Image Recognition by Retrieving from Web-Scale Image-Text Data
by Ahmet Iscen
Alireza Fathi
Cordelia Schmid. The paper proposes a new attention-based memory module for retrieval augmented models that enhances recognition capabilities by retrieving similar examples for visual input from an external memory set. The method removes irrelevant retrieved examples and retains useful ones. The study demonstrates the benefits of using a massive-scale memory dataset of 1B image-text pairs and achieves state-of-the-art accuracies in three classification tasks. The paper also discusses challenges associated with scaling large transformer models and suggests using world knowledge to create a massive-scale index/memory for use with a small model for the given inference task.