A vision-language approach for foundational UI understanding

Favorite Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist, and Gang Li, Software Engineer, Google Research The computational understanding of user interfaces (UI) is a key step towards achieving intelligent UI behaviors. Previously, we investigated various UI modeling tasks, including widget captioning, screen summarization, and command grounding, that address diverse interaction scenarios

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 24, 2023

Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning

Favorite Posted by Aviral Kumar, Student Researcher, and Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, Google Research Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn skills to solve decision-making tasks like playing games, enabling robots to pick up objects, or even optimizing microchip designs. However, running RL algorithms in the real world requires expensive active

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 23, 2023

Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Health

Favorite Posted by Greg Corrado, Distinguished Scientist, and Yossi Matias, VP Engineering and Research, Google Research (This is Part 8 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) Google’s focus on AI stems from the conviction

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 23, 2023

Our progress toward quantum error correction

Favorite For the first time ever, our Quantum AI researchers have experimentally demonstrated it’s possible to reduce errors by increasing the number of qubits. View Original Source (blog.google/technology/ai/) Here.

Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Natural sciences

Favorite Posted by John Platt, Distinguished Scientist, Google Research (This is Part 7 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a scientist. With the amazing advances in machine

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 21, 2023

7 ways AI is already making your Pixel more helpful

Favorite Whether you’re using your Pixel to translate a foreign language, edit photos or take a phone call in a noisy area — AI is making everyday moments easier. View Original Source (blog.google/technology/ai/) Here.

FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Favorite Posted by Parker Riley, Software Engineer, and Jan Botha, Research Scientist, Google Research Many languages spoken worldwide cover numerous regional varieties (sometimes called dialects), such as Brazilian and European Portuguese or Mainland and Taiwan Mandarin Chinese. Although such varieties are often mutually intelligible to their speakers, there are still

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 17, 2023

FriendlyCore: A novel differentially private aggregation framework

Favorite Posted by Haim Kaplan and Yishay Mansour, Research Scientists, Google Research Differential privacy (DP) machine learning algorithms protect user data by limiting the effect of each data point on an aggregated output with a mathematical guarantee. Intuitively the guarantee implies that changing a single user’s contribution should not significantly

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 15, 2023

Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Robotics

Favorite Posted by Kendra Byrne, Senior Product Manager, and Jie Tan, Staff Research Scientist, Robotics at Google (This is Part 6 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) Within our lifetimes, we will see robotic

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Shared by Google AI Technology February 14, 2023