20 April 2021
Papers and activities of NAVER LABS Europe at EACL 2021. NLG, scaling to larger context, cost of supervised data, controlling the output plus ASR at the AfricaNLP workshop.
2021
17 April 2021
Our Global BERT-based Transformer architecture fuses global and local information at every layer, resulting in a reading comprehension model that achieves a deeper understanding for long documents and enables flexibility for downstream tasks.
2021
31 March 2021
Visual localization is used by robots and self-driving cars to estimate their position and in AR apps to interact with the physical world both indoors and out in the open. This article gives an overview of current state-of-the-art methods and their advantages and drawbacks.
2021
10 March 2021
Podcast and transcript of Matthias Gallé, head of the NAVER research LAB in Europe who tells us what kind of research is going on in the labs in France and what it’s like to work there.
2021
27 February 2021
Agents are becoming more artificially intelligent but a number of problems must be solved before we can unleash them into our physical world (i.e. robots) and trust them in our digital one.
2021
18 December 2020
By dissecting the matching process of the recent ColBERT model, we make a step towards unveiling the ranking properties of BERT-based ranking models and show that ColBERT (implicitly) learns a notion of term importance that correlates with IDF.
2020
15 December 2020
Running into the unknown with RunAhead: finding pleasant running tours and intuitively navigating through them. The use of combinatorial optimization and UX design, together with head-tracking technology, provides a non-intrusive way of helping runners to discover new itineraries.
2020
9 December 2020
A novel framework which uses individual sample losses as error measures to determine the relative difficulty of samples in a dataset. Can be plugged on top of existing neural network models to implement curriculum learning for any task, even with noisy datasets.
2020
8 December 2020
How harder negatives facilitate better and faster contrastive self-supervised learning and ways of synthesizing harder negative features on-the-fly.
2020
7 December 2020
Podcast and transcript on 3rd Robot Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2020 with Julien Perez, group lead machine learning and optimization at NAVER LABS Europe and co-organiser of the workshop.
2020
24 November 2020
A new approach to image search uses images returned by traditional search methods as nodes in a graph neural network through which similarity signals are propagated, achieving improved ranking in cross-modal retrieval.
2020
5 November 2020
A new greedy, brute-force solution improves fairness in ranking and encompasses realistic scenarios with multiple, unknown protected groups.
2020
