Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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#mlnews #convnext #mt3

Your update on what's new in the Machine Learning world!

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Intro
0:15 - ConvNeXt: Return of the Convolutions
2:50 - Investigating Saliency Cropping Algorithms
9:40 - YourTTS: SOTA zero-shot Text-to-Speech
10:40 - MT3: Multi-Track Music Transcription
11:35 - China regulates addictive algorithms
13:00 - A collection of Deep Learning interview questions & solutions
13:35 - Helpful Things
16:05 - AlphaZero explained blog post
16:45 - Ru-DOLPH: HyperModal Text-to-Image-to-Text model
17:45 - Google AI 2021 Review

References:
ConvNeXt: Return of the Convolutions
arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545
github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt
twitter.com/giffmana/status/1481054929573888005
twitter.com/wightmanr/status/1481150080765739009
twitter.com/tanmingxing/status/1481362887272636417

Investigating Saliency Cropping Algorithms
openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2022/papers/Birhane_Auditing_Saliency_Cropping_Algorithms_WACV_2022_paper.pdf
vinayprabhu.github.io/Saliency_Image_Cropping/paper_html/main.html
vinayprabhu.medium.com/on-the-twitter-cropping-controversy-critique-clarifications-and-comments-7ac66154f687
vinayprabhu.github.io/Saliency_Image_Cropping

YourTTS: SOTA zero-shot Text-to-Speech
github.com/coqui-ai/TTS?utm_source=pocket_mylist
arxiv.org/abs/2112.02418?utm_source=pocket_mylist
coqui.ai/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
coqui.ai/blog/tts/yourtts-zero-shot-text-synthesis-low-resource-languages

MT3: Multi-Track Music Transcription
arxiv.org/abs/2111.03017
github.com/magenta/mt3
huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/MT3
reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/rtlx0r/r_mt3_multitask_multitrack_music_transcription

China regulates addictive algorithms
technode.com/2022/01/05/china-issues-new-rules-to-regulate-algorithms-targeting-addiction-monopolies-and-overspending
qz.com/2109618/china-reveals-new-algorithm-rules-to-weaken-platforms-control-of-users

A collection of Deep Learning interview questions & solutions
arxiv.org/abs/2201.00650?utm_source=pocket_mylist
arxiv.org/pdf/2201.00650.pdf

Helpful Things
docs.deepchecks.com/en/stable/index.html
github.com/deepchecks/deepchecks
docs.deepchecks.com/en/stable/examples/guides/quickstart_in_5_minutes.html
dagshub.com
dagshub.com/docs/index.html
dagshub.com/blog/launching-dagshub-2-0
bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html
mlcontests.com
github.com/Yard1/ray-skorch
github.com/skorch-dev/skorch
rumbledb.org/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
github.com/DarshanDeshpande/jax-models
github.com/s3prl/s3prl

AlphaZero explained blog post
joshvarty.github.io/AlphaZero/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Ru-DOLPH: HyperModal Text-to-Image-to-Text model
github.com/sberbank-ai/ru-dolph
colab.research.google.com/drive/1gmTDA13u709OXiAeXWGm7sPixRhEJCga?usp=sharing

Google AI 2021 Review
ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/google-research-themes-from-2021-and.html

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