Microsoft’s MarS: A Game-Changer in Financial Market Simulations ...
Sep 23, 2024 · This system addresses the unique demands of modeling the market impact of orders while enabling highly realistic, controllable simulations. The core of MarS is the generative foundation model (LMM), which is trained on historical order-level financial data. During real-time simulations, the LMM generates dynamic sequences of orders based on ...
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Feb 18, 2024 · Building on MM1’s success, Apple’s new paper, MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning, introduces an improved model family aimed at enhancing capabilities in text-rich image understanding, visual grounding, and multi-image reasoning. by Synced 2024-10-28 1.
NVIDIA Launch Web App for GauGAN2 to Generate Pictures …
Nov 23, 2021 · On November 22, the NVIDIA blog introduced the interactive demo website app to generate photorealistic landscape images in real-time via text description. Thanks to its widely popular image processing research effort – GauGAN, named after post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, users can type a simple phrase such as “sunset at a beach,” and the tool will generate the scene in real-time.
Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0 | Synced
Feb 22, 2019 · Facebook AI Chief Yann LeCun introduced his now-famous “cake analogy” at NIPS 2016: “If intelligence is a cake, the bulk of the cake is unsupervised learning, the icing on the cake is supervised learning, and the cherry on the cake is reinforcement learning (RL).”The quip rippled across the AI community and confirmed LeCun a strong advocate of unsupervised learning, a machine learning ...
A Look at Recent Advances in Google Translate | Synced
Jun 10, 2020 · Incorporating these new advances, Google’s latest model scores an average five-point increase on BLEU compared to the previous GNMT model — with the class of 50 low-resources languages achieving an average seven-point boost. The researchers note that there is still much room for improvement in the quality of automatic translation for ...
Microsoft’s BEiT-3 Foundation Model: A ‘Big Convergence of …
Aug 30, 2022 · In the new paper Image as a Foreign Language: BEiT Pretraining for All Vision and Vision-Language Tasks, a Microsoft research team presents BEiT-3, a general-purpose state-of-the-art multimodal foundation model for both vision and vision-language tasks that advances the big convergence of backbone architectures, pretraining tasks, and model scaling.
Are Patches All You Need? New Study Proposes Patches Are …
Oct 12, 2021 · Vision transformer architectures (ViTs) have achieved compelling performance across many computer vision tasks, often outperforming classical convolutional architectures. A question arises: Is the impressive performance of ViTs due to their powerful transformer architecture and attention mechanisms, or is there some other factor that gives ViTs their edge? In the paper Patches Are All You Need,
CMU’s DensePose From WiFi: An Affordable, Accessible and …
Jan 17, 2023 · DensePose was introduced in 2018 and aims to map human pixels in an RGB image to the 3D surface of the human body. Synced has previously covered additional research on the use of WiFi signals for human pose and action recognition through walls and the associated risks of such technologies. This new paper focuses on a particular task: given ...
NeurIPS 2018 Opens; Best Papers Announced | Synced
Dec 3, 2018 · The 2018 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) kicked off today in Montréal. In their opening remarks this afternoon the NeurIPS organizing committee announced the conference's major best paper selections and other awards. Four submissions shared top honors in the best paper category: Non-Delusional Q-Learning and Value-Iteration from researchers at Google AI: The paper
Roadstar.ai: The Rise and Fall of a Self-Driving Startup
Apr 8, 2019 · A year ago, Shenzhen-based self-driving start-up Roadstar.ai was cruising along promisingly. In May 2018 the company announced a US$128 million funding round led by Wu Capital and state-backed Shenzhen Capital Group — one of the largest autonomous driving investments ever in China. With its focus on advanced L4 autonomous vehicle development, Roadstar.ai was setting the