Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

3 code implementations • 10 Jun 2019 • David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack, Kelly Kochanski, Alexandre Lacoste, Kris Sankaran, Andrew Slavin Ross, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Natasha Jaques, Anna Waldman-Brown, Alexandra Luccioni, Tegan Maharaj, Evan D. Sherwin, S. Karthik Mukkavilli, Konrad P. Kording, Carla Gomes, Andrew Y. Ng, Demis Hassabis, John C. Platt, Felix Creutzig, Jennifer Chayes, Yoshua Bengio

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning experts, may wonder how we can help.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Management

Regularized Minimax Conditional Entropy for Crowdsourcing

no code implementations • 25 Mar 2015 • Dengyong Zhou, Qiang Liu, John C. Platt, Christopher Meek, Nihar B. Shah

There is a rapidly increasing interest in crowdsourcing for data labeling.

From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back

1 code implementation • CVPR 2015 • Hao Fang, Saurabh Gupta, Forrest Iandola, Rupesh Srivastava, Li Deng, Piotr Dollár, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Margaret Mitchell, John C. Platt, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Geoffrey Zweig

The language model learns from a set of over 400, 000 image descriptions to capture the statistics of word usage.

Image Captioning Language Modelling +2

Learning from the Wisdom of Crowds by Minimax Entropy

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2012 • Dengyong Zhou, Sumit Basu, Yi Mao, John C. Platt

We propose a minimax entropy principle to improve the quality of these labels.

Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion

no code implementations • ACL 2012 • Geoffrey Zweig, John C. Platt, Christopher Meek, Christopher J. C. Burges, Ainur Yessenalina, Qiang Liu

Language Modelling Question Answering +2

Fast Variational Inference for Large-scale Internet Diagnosis

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2007 • Emre Kiciman, David Maltz, John C. Platt

Web servers on the Internet need to maintain high reliability, but the cause of intermittent failures of web transactions is non-obvious.

Bayesian Inference Time Series Analysis +1