Week Ending 10.20.19
RESEARCH WATCH: 10.20.19
Over the past week, 879 new papers were published in "Computer Science".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Nailed It: Autonomous Roofing with a Nailgun-Equipped Octocopter" by Matthew Romano et al (Sep 2019), which was referenced 29 times, including in the article Roofing Drone Nails Down Shingles in Novus Light Today. The paper author, Ella Atkins (University of Michigan), was quoted saying "For me, the biggest excitement of this work is in recognizing that autonomous, useful, physical interaction and construction tasks are possible with drones".
Leading researcher Oriol Vinyals (DeepMind) came out with "Low Bit-Rate Speech Coding with VQ-VAE and a WaveNet Decoder", which has 0 shares on Twitter so far. The researchers demonstrate that a neural network architecture based on VQ - VAE with a WaveNet decoder can be used to perform very low bit - rate speech coding with high reconstruction quality.
Over the past week, 62 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "#MeTooMaastricht: Building a chatbot to assist survivors of sexual harassment" by Tobias Bauer et al (Sep 2019), which was referenced 4 times, including in the article How do you educate to decode the unknown? in World Bank. The paper got social media traction with 7 shares.
Leading researcher Kyunghyun Cho (New York University) published "Mix-review: Alleviate Forgetting in the Pretrain-Finetune Framework for Neural Language Generation Models".
Over the past week, 175 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Training Kinetics in 15 Minutes: Large-scale Distributed Training on Videos" by Ji Lin et al (Oct 2019), which was referenced 8 times, including in the article This Technique Can Make It Easier for AI to Understand Videos in Wired News. The paper author, Song Han (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), was quoted saying "Our goal is to make AI accessible to anyone with a low-power device".
Leading researcher Y. Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics) came out with "Detecting intracranial aneurysm rupture from 3D surfaces using a novel GraphNet approach".
Over the past week, 19 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Computers and Society".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy" by Yannis Assael et al (Oct 2019), which was referenced 12 times, including in the article DeepMind AI beats humans at deciphering damaged ancient Greek tablets in New Scientist. The paper author, Yannis Assael (DeepMind), was quoted saying "It’s all about how we can help the experts".
Over the past week, 21 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction".
Leading researcher Pieter Abbeel (University of California, Berkeley) came out with "On the Utility of Learning about Humans for Human-AI Coordination".
This week was very active for "Computer Science - Learning", with 373 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Training Kinetics in 15 Minutes: Large-scale Distributed Training on Videos" by Ji Lin et al (Oct 2019)
Leading researcher Oriol Vinyals (DeepMind) came out with "Low Bit-Rate Speech Coding with VQ-VAE and a WaveNet Decoder".
Over the past week, seven new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Hijacking Routes in Payment Channel Networks: A Predictability Tradeoff" by Saar Tochner et al (Sep 2019), which was referenced 6 times, including in the article Researchers Uncover Bitcoin ‘Attack’ That Could Slow or Stop Lightning Payments in BusinessMayor.com. The paper got social media traction with 118 shares. A user, @c4chaos, tweeted "wait. wut? you mean #Lightning can make #Bitcoin less decentralized than $EOS? 🤷🏻♂️⚡️ “We find that in the current network nearly 60% of all routes pass through only five nodes, while 80% go through only 10 nodes.“ see".
Over the past week, 24 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at New York University: "Bootstrapping Conditional GANs for Video Game Level Generation" by Ruben Rodriguez Torrado et al (Oct 2019), which was referenced 1 time, including in the article Using Conditional GANs to Build Zelda Game Levels in SyncedReview.com.
This week was active for "Computer Science - Robotics", with 46 new papers.
The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was "Nailed It: Autonomous Roofing with a Nailgun-Equipped Octocopter" by Matthew Romano et al (Sep 2019)