Week Ending 2.9.2020
RESEARCH WATCH: 2.9.2020
Over the past week, 886 new papers were published in "Computer Science".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Information Leaks via Safaris Intelligent Tracking Prevention" by Artur Janc et al (Jan 2020), which was referenced 59 times, including in the article Safari Uses Flawed Tracking Protections, Google Finds in CPO Magazine. The paper author, Artur Janc (Google security engineer), was quoted saying "What you end up with is a personalized anti-tracking model baked into your browser".
Leading researcher Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) came out with "Meta-learning framework with applications to zero-shot time-series forecasting".
Over the past week, 88 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Radioactive data: tracing through training" by Alexandre Sablayrolles et al (Feb 2020), which was referenced 7 times, including in the article Facebook mulls tagging pics with 'radioactive' markers to trace the origin of photos used to build image-recog AI in The Register.
Leading researcher Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) published "Combating False Negatives in Adversarial Imitation Learning".
Over the past week, 150 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Radioactive data: tracing through training" by Alexandre Sablayrolles et al (Feb 2020)
Over the past week, 11 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computers and Society".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Flood" by Valerio Lorini et al (Jan 2020), which was referenced 10 times, including in the article Wikipedia, a source of information on natural disasters biased towards rich countries in EurekAlert!. The paper author, Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), was quoted saying "We believe that Wikipedia is a valuable, free source of information and that it could be beneficial to researchers working on reducing the risk of disasters if the biases are identified, measured and mitigated".
This week was active for "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction", with 31 new papers.
This week was very active for "Computer Science - Learning", with 335 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Purdue University: "AppStreamer: Reducing Storage Requirements of Mobile Games through Predictive Streaming" by Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt et al (Dec 2019), which was referenced 30 times, including in the article Apps could take up less space on your phone, thanks to new 'streaming' software in EurekAlert!. The paper author, Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University), was quoted saying "It's like how Netflix movies aren't actually stored on a computer. They are streamed to you as you are watching them".
Leading researcher Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal)
Over the past week, ten new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Towards Learning Multi-agent Negotiations via Self-Play" by Yichuan Charlie Tang (Jan 2020), which was referenced 3 times, including in the article Innovation Wrap: Robot Picking, Coronavirus Treatments, Google’s Conversational Chatbot in ShareCafe. The paper author, Yichuan Charlie Tang, was quoted saying "We demonstrate [our technique] in a challenging multi-agent simulation of merging traffic, where agents must interact and negotiate with others in order to successfully merge on or off the road".
Leading researcher Abhinav Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University) published "On the interaction between supervision and self-play in emergent communication". This paper was also shared the most on social media with zero tweet.
Over the past week, 27 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Google: "Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot" by Daniel Adiwardana et al (Jan 2020), which was referenced 27 times, including in the article Meena is model of sensible conversation, outperforms other chatbots in Tech Xplore. The paper author, David Limp, was quoted saying "the holy grail of voice science."
This week was active for "Computer Science - Robotics", with 48 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Towards Learning Multi-agent Negotiations via Self-Play" by Yichuan Charlie Tang (Jan 2020)