Science
Dark DNA Unveiled: Google’s AlphaGenome interprets DNA that regulates genetic expression
An open-weights model could help scientists compare the impact of genetic variations, identify mutations that cause diseases, and develop treatments.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
Machine Learning Research
Sleep Signals Predict Illness: SleepFM detects signs of neurological disorders years before symptoms manifest
Difficulty sleeping often precedes heart disease, psychiatric disorders, and many other illnesses. Researchers used data gathered during sleep studies to detect such conditions.
Machine Learning Research
More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details
Same character, new background, new action. That’s the focus of the latest text-to-image models from Germany’s Black Forest Labs.
Machine Learning Research
Masked Pretraining for CNNs: ConvNeXt V2, the new model family that boosts ConvNet performance
Vision transformers have bested convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in a number of key vision tasks. Have CNNs hit their limit? New research suggests otherwise.
Science
Rigorous Trial: AI matches humans in breast cancer diagnosis.
A deep learning system detected breast cancer in mammograms as well as experienced radiologists, according to a landmark study.
Machine Learning Research
Diffusion Transformed: A new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture
A tweak to diffusion models, which are responsible for most of the recent excitement about AI-generated images, enables them to produce more realistic output.
Culture
K-Pop Sings in Many Tongues: K-Pop hit song recorded in 6 languages using deep learning
A Korean pop star recorded a song in six languages, thanks to deep learning. Midnatt (better known as Lee Hyun) sang his latest release, “Masquerade,” in English, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, and Vietnamese — none of which he speaks fluently.
Machine Learning Research
Stratego Master: DeepNash, the RL system that plays Stratego like a master
Reinforcement learning agents have mastered games like Go that provide complete information about the state of the game to players. They’ve also excelled at Texas Hold ’Em poker, which provides incomplete information, as few cards are revealed.
Tech & Society
Champion Model Is No Go: Adversarial AI Beats Master KataGo Algorithm
A new algorithm defeated a championship-winning Go model using moves that even a middling human player could counter. Researchers trained a model to defeat KataGo, an open source Go-playing system that has beaten top human players.
Machine Learning Research
The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.
Science
The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon
Neural networks are making it possible to view parts of the Moon that are perpetually shrouded by darkness. Researchers devised a method called Hyper-effective Noise Removal U-net Software (HORUS) to remove noise from images of the Moon’s south pole.
Machine Learning Research
Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers
Vision Transformers (ViTs) are overtaking convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many vision tasks, but procedures for training them are still tailored for CNNs. New research investigated how various training ingredients affect ViT performance.