Immense data and gigantic models have been the driving force for the tremendous success of AI technologies. However, many real-world applications simply do not have access to large scale labeled data or the computing power to support large models. In this talk, I will talk about the “last-mile delivery” problem of computer vision, where the goal is to build models that are adapted to any test...

An important goal of character animation is to create believable, life-like movements and expressions. For film, artists spend significant amounts of effort to add sufficient complexity to a character rig to enable believable and emotionally evocative performances. However, once a complex character rig has been authored, an artist then needs to spend a significant amount of effort to animate a...

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This Forum is an open discussion platform for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and research at the intersection of healthcare and data science. Meetings are held monthly on first Mondays at 12:30-1:30 PM Pacific. Register to receive schedule and access links.

Abstract: Genetic variation is shaped through evolutionary processes acting on our genomes over hundreds of millennia, including past migrations, isolation by distance, population bottlenecks, and natural selection. Such events are reflected in the genealogical trees that relate individuals back in time. We have developed an approach, Relate, to reconstruct such genealogies from genetic...

Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic continues to create confusion and contention along scientific and political lines. In this conversation, Berkeley faculty will help us understand the nature of misinformation in order to assess, evaluate and engage more effectively with the information resources we consult. They will discuss some of the reasons for the rapid spread of misinformation,...

The cloud has become the most common way to deliver commercial software, but it requires building products in a very different way from traditional software, which has not been heavily studied in research. I will explain some of these challenges based on my experience at Databricks, a startup that provides a data analytics platform as a service on AWS and Azure. Databricks manages...