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Joint Learning Over Visual and Geometric Data
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Joint Learning Over Visual and Geometric Data
AI is advancing rapidly at the cognitive tasks that make up knowledge work, raising fears among firms, policymakers, and, not least, workers of a “China shock” for white-collar jobs. Neil Thompson will present new research on whether those fears are warranted.

AI is advancing rapidly at the cognitive tasks that make up knowledge work, raising fears among firms, policymakers, and, not least, workers of a “China shock” for white-collar jobs. Neil Thompson will present new research on whether those fears are warranted.
Scientific progress is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. There is great excitement- but also concerns- about the impacts of AI on science, but so far little data. We provide early insights on this from three data sources: a sample of 15 million Gemini interactions, an inventory of over 2,600 specialized AI models across disciplines, and a survey of over 600 scientists.

Scientific progress is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. There is great excitement- but also concerns- about the impacts of AI on science, but so far little data. We provide early insights on this from three data sources: a sample of 15 million Gemini interactions, an inventory of over 2,600 specialized AI models across disciplines, and a survey of over 600 scientists.
A Center for Neural Data Science Seminar Series

A Center for Neural Data Science Seminar Series
Many challenges remain in applying machine learning to domains where obtaining massive annotated data is difficult. We discuss a number of approaches that aim to reduce supervision load for learning algorithms in the visual and geometric domains by leveraging correlations among data, among representations, and among learning tasks -- what we call joint learning. The basic notion is that inference problems do not occur in isolation but rather in a social context that can be exploited to provide self-supervision by enforcing consistency among them, thus improving performance and increasing sample efficiency. An example is shape co-segmentation, where we can use structural correlations between related shapes to regularize the segmentation of any particular shape. Another is the use of cross-task consistency constraints, as in the case of inferring depth and normals from an image, which are obviously related. Even at the level of representations, joint learning can avoid blind-spots of any one individual representation and better adapt to data particularities – just as we get with multiple 2D views of a 3D object. The talk will present a number of examples of joint learning, including the above as well as 3D object detection and pose estimation.
