no code implementations • 29 Jan 2025 • Yoshua Bengio, Sören Mindermann, Daniel Privitera, Tamay Besiroglu, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Yejin Choi, Philip Fox, Ben Garfinkel, Danielle Goldfarb, Hoda Heidari, Anson Ho, Sayash Kapoor, Leila Khalatbari, Shayne Longpre, Sam Manning, Vasilios Mavroudis, Mantas Mazeika, Julian Michael, Jessica Newman, Kwan Yee Ng, Chinasa T. Okolo, Deborah Raji, Girish Sastry, Elizabeth Seger, Theodora Skeadas, Tobin South, Emma Strubell, Florian Tramèr, Lucia Velasco, Nicole Wheeler, Daron Acemoglu, Olubayo Adekanmbi, David Dalrymple, Thomas G. Dietterich, Edward W. Felten, Pascale Fung, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Fredrik Heintz, Geoffrey Hinton, Nick Jennings, Andreas Krause, Susan Leavy, Percy Liang, Teresa Ludermir, Vidushi Marda, Helen Margetts, John McDermid, Jane Munga, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Clara Neppel, Alice Oh, Gopal Ramchurn, Stuart Russell, Marietje Schaake, Bernhard Schölkopf, Dawn Song, Alvaro Soto, Lee Tiedrich, Gaël Varoquaux, Andrew Yao, Ya-Qin Zhang, Fahad Albalawi, Marwan Alserkal, Olubunmi Ajala, Guillaume Avrin, Christian Busch, André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Bronwyn Fox, Amandeep Singh Gill, Ahmet Halit Hatip, Juha Heikkilä, Gill Jolly, Ziv Katzir, Hiroaki Kitano, Antonio Krüger, Chris Johnson, Saif M. Khan, Kyoung Mu Lee, Dominic Vincent Ligot, Oleksii Molchanovskyi, Andrea Monti, Nusu Mwamanzi, Mona Nemer, Nuria Oliver, José Ramón López Portillo, Balaraman Ravindran, Raquel Pezoa Rivera, Hammam Riza, Crystal Rugege, Ciarán Seoighe, Jerry Sheehan, Haroon Sheikh, Denise Wong, Yi Zeng
The first International AI Safety Report comprehensively synthesizes the current evidence on the capabilities, risks, and safety of advanced AI systems.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2025 • Andrés Villa, Juan León Alcázar, Motasem Alfarra, Vladimir Araujo, Alvaro Soto, Bernard Ghanem
Our approach, named EAGLE, is fully agnostic to the LLM or fusion module and works as a post-pretraining approach that improves the grounding and language alignment of the visual encoder.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2024 • Yoshua Bengio, Sören Mindermann, Daniel Privitera, Tamay Besiroglu, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Yejin Choi, Danielle Goldfarb, Hoda Heidari, Leila Khalatbari, Shayne Longpre, Vasilios Mavroudis, Mantas Mazeika, Kwan Yee Ng, Chinasa T. Okolo, Deborah Raji, Theodora Skeadas, Florian Tramèr, Bayo Adekanmbi, Paul Christiano, David Dalrymple, Thomas G. Dietterich, Edward Felten, Pascale Fung, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Nick Jennings, Andreas Krause, Percy Liang, Teresa Ludermir, Vidushi Marda, Helen Margetts, John A. McDermid, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Alice Oh, Gopal Ramchurn, Stuart Russell, Marietje Schaake, Dawn Song, Alvaro Soto, Lee Tiedrich, Gaël Varoquaux, Andrew Yao, Ya-Qin Zhang
This is the interim publication of the first International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.
1 code implementation • 3 Dec 2023 • Andrés Villa, Juan Carlos León Alcázar, Alvaro Soto, Bernard Ghanem
This paper introduces a Multi-modal Evaluation Benchmark named MERLIM, a scalable test-bed to assess the capabilities of IT-LVLMs on fundamental computer vision tasks.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2023 • Felipe del Rio, Julio Hurtado, Cristian Buc, Alvaro Soto, Vincenzo Lomonaco
One of the objectives of Continual Learning is to learn new concepts continually over a stream of experiences and at the same time avoid catastrophic forgetting.
no code implementations • 12 May 2023 • Vladimir Araujo, Alvaro Soto, Marie-Francine Moens
Existing question answering methods often assume that the input content (e. g., documents or videos) is always accessible to solve the task.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Andrés Villa, Juan León Alcázar, Motasem Alfarra, Kumail Alhamoud, Julio Hurtado, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Alvaro Soto, Bernard Ghanem
In this paper, we address the problem of continual learning for video data.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2022 • Vladimir Araujo, Helena Balabin, Julio Hurtado, Alvaro Soto, Marie-Francine Moens
Lifelong language learning seeks to have models continuously learn multiple tasks in a sequential order without suffering from catastrophic forgetting.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2022 • Alain Raymond-Saez, Julio Hurtado, Alvaro Soto
Curriculum Learning is a powerful training method that allows for faster and better training in some settings.
1 code implementation • 4 Jul 2022 • Julio Hurtado, Alain Raymond-Saez, Vladimir Araujo, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Alvaro Soto, Davide Bacciu
This paper introduces Memory Outlier Elimination (MOE), a method for identifying and eliminating outliers in the memory buffer by choosing samples from label-homogeneous subpopulations.
1 code implementation • 18 Apr 2022 • Vladimir Araujo, Julio Hurtado, Alvaro Soto, Marie-Francine Moens
The ability to continuously learn remains elusive for deep learning models.
1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Vladimir Araujo, Andrés Carvallo, Souvik Kundu, José Cañete, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert E. Mercer, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Marie-Francine Moens, Alvaro Soto
Due to the success of pre-trained language models, versions of languages other than English have been released in recent years.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Vladimir Araujo, Andrés Villa, Marcelo Mendoza, Marie-Francine Moens, Alvaro Soto
Current language models are usually trained using a self-supervised scheme, where the main focus is learning representations at the word or sentence level.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2021 • Juan Pablo de Vicente, Alvaro Soto
Current datasets to train social behaviors are usually borrowed from surveillance applications that capture visual data from a bird's-eye perspective.
2 code implementations • 21 Jun 2021 • Andrés Villa, Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua, Vladimir Araujo, Juan Carlos Niebles, Victor Escorcia, Alvaro Soto
Recently, few-shot learning has received increasing interest.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Julio Hurtado, Alain Raymond-Saez, Alvaro Soto
On the other hand, a set of trainable masks provides the key mechanism to selectively choose from the KB relevant weights to solve each task.
no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Carlos Aspillaga, Marcelo Mendoza, Alvaro Soto
The field of natural language understanding has experienced exponential progress in the last few years, with impressive results in several tasks.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Rodolfo Palma, Alvaro Soto, Luis Martí, Nayat Sanchez-pi
We introduce two temporal attention modules which can be plugged into traditional memory augmented recurrent neural networks to improve their performance in natural language processing tasks.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Carlos Aspillaga, Marcelo Mendoza, Alvaro Soto
The state of the art, previously dominated by pre-trained word embeddings, is now being pushed forward by large pre-trained contextual representation models.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Felipe del Rio, Vladimir Araujo, Alvaro Soto
DACT-BERT adds an adaptive computation mechanism to the regular processing pipeline of BERT.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Julio Hurtado, Alain Raymond, Alvaro Soto
As a working hypothesis, we speculate that during learning some weights focus on mining patterns from frequent examples while others are in charge of memorizing rare long-tail samples.
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2020 • Pablo Messina, Pablo Pino, Denis Parra, Alvaro Soto, Cecilia Besa, Sergio Uribe, Marcelo andía, Cristian Tejos, Claudia Prieto, Daniel Capurro
Every year physicians face an increasing demand of image-based diagnosis from patients, a problem that can be addressed with recent artificial intelligence methods.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Patricio Cerda-Mardini, Vladimir Araujo, Alvaro Soto
We propose a multi-head attention mechanism as a blending layer in a neural network model that translates natural language to a high level behavioral language for indoor robot navigation.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2020 • Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Alvaro Soto
This paper presents a novel attention-based algorithm for achieving adaptive computation called DACT, which, unlike existing ones, is end-to-end differentiable.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2019 • Kevin Chen, Juan Pablo de Vicente, Gabriel Sepulveda, Fei Xia, Alvaro Soto, Marynel Vazquez, Silvio Savarese
Inspired by research in psychology, we introduce a behavioral approach for visual navigation using topological maps.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Xiaoxue Zang, Ashwini Pokle, Marynel Vázquez, Kevin Chen, Juan Carlos Niebles, Alvaro Soto, Silvio Savarese
We propose an end-to-end deep learning model for translating free-form natural language instructions to a high-level plan for behavioral robot navigation.
no code implementations • ECCV 2018 • Jingwei Ji, Shyamal Buch, Alvaro Soto, Juan Carlos Niebles
Traditional video understanding tasks include human action recognition and actor/object semantic segmentation.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2018 • Yundong Zhang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Alvaro Soto
A key aspect of VQA models that are interpretable is their ability to ground their answers to relevant regions in the image.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2018 • Gabriel Sepulveda, Juan Carlos Niebles, Alvaro Soto
We present a semantically rich graph representation for indoor robotic navigation.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2017 • Vicente Dominguez, Pablo Messina, Denis Parra, Domingo Mery, Christoph Trattner, Alvaro Soto
Advances in image processing and computer vision in the latest years have brought about the use of visual features in artwork recommendation.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2017 • Pablo Messina, Vicente Dominguez, Denis Parra, Christoph Trattner, Alvaro Soto
Compared to other areas, artwork recommendation has received little attention, despite the continuous growth of the artwork market.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2017 • Rodrigo Toro Icarte, Jorge A. Baier, Cristian Ruz, Alvaro Soto
Consequently, a main conclusion of this work is that general-purpose commonsense ontologies improve performance on visual reasoning tasks when properly filtered to select meaningful visual relations.
no code implementations • CVPR 2016 • Ivan Lillo, Juan Carlos Niebles, Alvaro Soto
In this paper, we introduce a new hierarchical model for human action recognition using body joint locations.
no code implementations • CVPR 2016 • Anali Alfaro, Domingo Mery, Alvaro Soto
In terms of the method to obtain key-sequences, we introduce a loss function that, for each video, leads to the identification of a sparse set of representative key-frames capturing both, relevant particularities arising in the input video, as well as relevant generalities arising in the complete class collection.
no code implementations • CVPR 2014 • Ivan Lillo, Alvaro Soto, Juan Carlos Niebles
Our method describes human activities in a hierarchical discriminative model that operates at three semantic levels.