Week Ending 5.29.2022

 

RESEARCH WATCH: 5.29.2022

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This week was extremely active for "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence", with 332 new papers.

  • The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at DeepMind: "A Generalist Agent" by Scott Reed et al (May 2022), which was referenced 30 times, including in the article Gato, the latest from Deepmind. Towards true AI? in Towards Data Science. The paper author, Scott Reed (DeepMind), was quoted saying "With a single set of weights, Gato can engage in dialogue, caption images, stack blocks with a real robot arm, outperform humans at playing Atari games, navigate in simulated 3D environments, follow instructions, and more". The paper got social media traction with 209 shares. A user, @HochreiterSepp, tweeted "ArXiv Gato: a single generalist policy. Can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks. Output determined by context (text, joint torques, buttons). 1.2B para. decoder-only transformer with 24 layers. Impressive results on control, robotics, language".

  • Leading researcher Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) came out with "FL Games: A federated learning framework for distribution shifts" The researchers argue that in order to generalize better across non - i.i.d. @summarizedml tweeted "FL Games, a game-theoretic framework for federated learning for learning causal features that are invariant across clients. 📄".

  • The paper shared the most on social media this week is by a team at The University of Tokyo: "Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners" by Takeshi Kojima et al (May 2022) with 1979 shares. @ak92501 (AK) tweeted "Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners abs: LLMs are decent zero-shot reasoners by simply adding “Let’s think step by step” before each answer, increasing the accuracy on MultiArith from 17.7% to 78.7% and GSM8K from 10.4% to 40.7% with 175B model".

  • The most influential Twitter user discussing papers is AK who shared "Masked Conditional Video Diffusion for Prediction, Generation, and Interpolation" by Vikram Voleti et al (May 2022) and said: "Masked Conditional Video Diffusion for Prediction, Generation, and Interpolation abs: SOTA across standard video prediction and interpolation benchmarks, computation times for training models measured in 1-12 days using ≤ 4 GPUs".

This week was very active for "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition", with 336 new papers.

This week was active for "Computer Science - Computers and Society", with 36 new papers.

This week was active for "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction", with 26 new papers.

This week was extremely active for "Computer Science - Learning", with 644 new papers.

Over the past week, 14 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".

  • The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Learning Eco-Driving Strategies at Signalized Intersections" by Vindula Jayawardana et al (Apr 2022), which was referenced 18 times, including in the article On the Road to Cleaner, Greener, and Faster Driving – With Some Help From AI in SciTechDaily. The paper author, Cathy Wu (University of Delaware), was quoted saying "This is a really interesting place to intervene. No one’s life is better because they were stuck at an intersection. With a lot of other climate change interventions, there is a quality-of-life difference that is expected, so there is a barrier to entry there. Here, the barrier is much lower". The paper was shared 1 time in social media. The investigators propose a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to learn effective eco - driving control strategies. On Twitter, @summarizedml posted "A reinforcementlearning approach to learn effective eco-driving control strategies at intersections. 📄".

Over the past week, 28 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".

This week was active for "Computer Science - Robotics", with 61 new papers.


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