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Exploring the Limits of Weakly Supervised Pretraining

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State-of-the-art visual perception models for a wide range of tasks rely on supervised pretraining. ImageNet classification is the de facto pretraining task for these models. Yet, ImageNet is now nearly ten years old and is by modern standards "small". Even so, relatively little is known about the behavior of pretraining with datasets that are multiple orders of magnitude larger. The reasons are obvious: such datasets are difficult to collect and annotate. In this paper, we present a unique study of transfer learning with large convolutional networks trained to predict hashtags on billions of social media images. Our experiments demonstrate that training for large-scale hashtag prediction leads to excellent results. We show improvements on several image classification and object detection tasks, and report the highest ImageNet-1k single-crop, top-1 accuracy to date: 85.4% (97.6% top-5). We also perform extensive experiments that provide novel empirical data on the relationship between large-scale pretraining and transfer learning performance.

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Scaling Laws for Transfer

cs.LG · 2021-02-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Effective data transferred from pre-training to fine-tuning is described by a power law in model parameter count and fine-tuning dataset size, acting like a multiplier on the fine-tuning data.

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know

cs.CL · 2022-07-11 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Language models show good calibration when asked to estimate the probability that their own answers are correct, with performance improving as models get larger.

Why Build an Assistant in Minecraft?

cs.AI · 2019-07-22 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

A rationale is presented for developing an assistant in Minecraft to advance natural language understanding and dialogue learning.

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  • EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks cs.LG · 2019-05-28 · accept · none · ref 29 · internal anchor

    EfficientNet scales network depth, width, and resolution uniformly via a compound coefficient to deliver state-of-the-art accuracy and efficiency on image classification.

  • Scaling Laws for Transfer cs.LG · 2021-02-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 180 · internal anchor

    Effective data transferred from pre-training to fine-tuning is described by a power law in model parameter count and fine-tuning dataset size, acting like a multiplier on the fine-tuning data.

  • Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know cs.CL · 2022-07-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 86

    Language models show good calibration when asked to estimate the probability that their own answers are correct, with performance improving as models get larger.

  • A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment cs.CL · 2021-12-01 · conditional · none · ref 31

    Ranked preference modeling outperforms imitation learning for language model alignment and scales more favorably with model size.

  • CraftAssist: A Framework for Dialogue-enabled Interactive Agents cs.AI · 2019-07-19 · unverdicted · none · ref 13 · internal anchor

    CraftAssist supplies a Minecraft bot, dialogue interface, and data-recording platform intended to support research on agents that execute tasks specified through conversation.

  • At the Edge of Understanding: Sparse Autoencoders Trace The Limits of Transformer Generalization cs.LG · 2026-06-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 21 · internal anchor

    Sparse autoencoders show OOD prompts increase fallacious concept activation in transformers, offering a mechanistic measure of shift and a path to robust fine-tuning.

  • Why Build an Assistant in Minecraft? cs.AI · 2019-07-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 58 · internal anchor

    A rationale is presented for developing an assistant in Minecraft to advance natural language understanding and dialogue learning.