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December 6, 2020 - December 12, 2020

Microsoft at NeurIPS 2020

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An visual comparing public image classification APIs to the proposed denoised smoothing framework applied to a public image classification API. In the first sequence, an image of an elephant is input into a public image classification API, represented by an arrow leading to a gray square labeled as such. An arrow from the square points to a correct prediction of elephant, enclosed in a green square, with the words “no robustness guaranteed” under it. In the second sequence, an arrow points from an image of an elephant to six noisy copies of the image. An arrow then points from the copies to a square labeled “Custom-trained Denoiser,” which outputs six clean versions of the images. An arrow points from the clean copies to a square labeled “Public Image Classification API.” The classifier provides predictions for each copy, of which four correctly identify their respective images as elephant. Adjacent to the predictions is a pie chart labeled “Majority Rules!” with one-third of the pie in red and two-thirds in green. Arrows point to the output of the process: a final prediction of elephant, enclosed in a green square, and a strong robustness guarantee, denoted by the words “certified radius” enclosed in a green square.
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| Hadi Salman

Editor’s note: This post and its research are the result of the collaborative efforts of a team of researchers comprising former Microsoft Research Engineer Hadi Salman (opens in new tab), CMU PhD student Mingjie Sun (opens in new tab), Researcher…

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| Oindrila Saha, Shikhar Jaiswal, Aayan Kumar, Harsha Simhadri, et Prateek Jain

Computer vision has rapidly evolved over the past decade, allowing for such applications as Seeing AI (opens in new tab), a camera app that describes aloud a person’s surroundings, helping those who are blind or have low vision; systems that…

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| Xu Tan

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| Daniel McDuff et Xin Liu

According to the CDC WONDER Online Database (opens in new tab), heart disease is currently the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. However, most deaths due to cardiovascular diseases could be prevented with…

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| Bita Darvish Rouhani, Doug Burger, Eric Chung, Rangan Majumder, Sangeetha Shekar, Saurabh Tiwary, Sitaram Lanka, et Steve Reinhardt

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Graphical representation of how our adversarial training approach works for solving the instrumental variable problem. The problem is viewed as a zero-sum game between a learner and an adversary. The learner attempts to find models that satisfy all moment constraints and the adversary flags violating moment constraints. Then the learner tries to correct the model to also satisfy the flagged constraint. A good model is learned when the adversary cannot find large violations
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| Vasilis Syrgkanis

We are going through a new shift in machine learning (ML), where ML models are increasingly being used to automate decision-making in a multitude of domains: what personalized treatment should be administered to a patient, what discount should be offered…

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| Hadi Salman

Editor’s note: This post and its research are the collaborative efforts of our team, which includes Andrew Ilyas (PhD Student, MIT), Logan Engstrom (PhD Student, MIT), Aleksander Mądry (Professor at MIT), Ashish Kapoor (Partner Research Manager). In practical machine learning,…