scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Institution

Facebook

CompanyTel Aviv, Israel
About: Facebook is a company organization based out in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Artificial neural network & Language model. The organization has 7856 authors who have published 10906 publications receiving 570123 citations. The organization is also known as: facebook.com & FB.


Papers
More filters
Posted Content
TL;DR: In this article, a discriminative convolutional network is proposed to generate object proposals, which is trained jointly with two objectives: given an image patch, the first part outputs a class-agnostic segmentation mask, while the second part outputs the likelihood of the patch being centered on a full object.
Abstract: Recent object detection systems rely on two critical steps: (1) a set of object proposals is predicted as efficiently as possible, and (2) this set of candidate proposals is then passed to an object classifier. Such approaches have been shown they can be fast, while achieving the state of the art in detection performance. In this paper, we propose a new way to generate object proposals, introducing an approach based on a discriminative convolutional network. Our model is trained jointly with two objectives: given an image patch, the first part of the system outputs a class-agnostic segmentation mask, while the second part of the system outputs the likelihood of the patch being centered on a full object. At test time, the model is efficiently applied on the whole test image and generates a set of segmentation masks, each of them being assigned with a corresponding object likelihood score. We show that our model yields significant improvements over state-of-the-art object proposal algorithms. In particular, compared to previous approaches, our model obtains substantially higher object recall using fewer proposals. We also show that our model is able to generalize to unseen categories it has not seen during training. Unlike all previous approaches for generating object masks, we do not rely on edges, superpixels, or any other form of low-level segmentation.

662 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
07 May 2011
TL;DR: Longitudinal surveys matched to server logs from 415 Facebook users reveal that receiving messages from friends is associated with increases in bridging social capital, but that other uses are not, and using the site to passively consume news assists those with lower social fluency draw value from their connections.
Abstract: Though social network site use is often treated as a monolithic activity, in which all time is equally social and its impact the same for all users, we examine how Facebook affects social capital depending upon: (1) types of site activities, contrasting one-on-one communication, broadcasts to wider audiences, and passive consumption of social news, and (2) individual differences among users, including social communication skill and self-esteem. Longitudinal surveys matched to server logs from 415 Facebook users reveal that receiving messages from friends is associated with increases in bridging social capital, but that other uses are not. However, using the site to passively consume news assists those with lower social fluency draw value from their connections. The results inform site designers seeking to increase social connectedness and the value of those connections.

659 citations

Posted Content
TL;DR: An improved version of GEM is proposed, dubbed Averaged GEM (A-GEM), which enjoys the same or even better performance as GEM, while being almost as computationally and memory efficient as EWC and other regularization-based methods.
Abstract: In lifelong learning, the learner is presented with a sequence of tasks, incrementally building a data-driven prior which may be leveraged to speed up learning of a new task. In this work, we investigate the efficiency of current lifelong approaches, in terms of sample complexity, computational and memory cost. Towards this end, we first introduce a new and a more realistic evaluation protocol, whereby learners observe each example only once and hyper-parameter selection is done on a small and disjoint set of tasks, which is not used for the actual learning experience and evaluation. Second, we introduce a new metric measuring how quickly a learner acquires a new skill. Third, we propose an improved version of GEM (Lopez-Paz & Ranzato, 2017), dubbed Averaged GEM (A-GEM), which enjoys the same or even better performance as GEM, while being almost as computationally and memory efficient as EWC (Kirkpatrick et al., 2016) and other regularization-based methods. Finally, we show that all algorithms including A-GEM can learn even more quickly if they are provided with task descriptors specifying the classification tasks under consideration. Our experiments on several standard lifelong learning benchmarks demonstrate that A-GEM has the best trade-off between accuracy and efficiency.

659 citations

Proceedings Article
27 Sep 2018
TL;DR: The best performing dialogue models are able to conduct knowledgeable discussions on open-domain topics as evaluated by automatic metrics and human evaluations, while a new benchmark allows for measuring further improvements in this important research direction.
Abstract: In open-domain dialogue intelligent agents should exhibit the use of knowledge, however there are few convincing demonstrations of this to date. The most popular sequence to sequence models typically "generate and hope" generic utterances that can be memorized in the weights of the model when mapping from input utterance(s) to output, rather than employing recalled knowledge as context. Use of knowledge has so far proved difficult, in part because of the lack of a supervised learning benchmark task which exhibits knowledgeable open dialogue with clear grounding. To that end we collect and release a large dataset with conversations directly grounded with knowledge retrieved from Wikipedia. We then design architectures capable of retrieving knowledge, reading and conditioning on it, and finally generating natural responses. Our best performing dialogue models are able to conduct knowledgeable discussions on open-domain topics as evaluated by automatic metrics and human evaluations, while our new benchmark allows for measuring further improvements in this important research direction.

655 citations

Posted Content
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply image transformations such as bit-depth reduction, JPEG compression, total variance minimization, and image quilting before feeding the image to a convolutional network classifier.
Abstract: This paper investigates strategies that defend against adversarial-example attacks on image-classification systems by transforming the inputs before feeding them to the system. Specifically, we study applying image transformations such as bit-depth reduction, JPEG compression, total variance minimization, and image quilting before feeding the image to a convolutional network classifier. Our experiments on ImageNet show that total variance minimization and image quilting are very effective defenses in practice, in particular, when the network is trained on transformed images. The strength of those defenses lies in their non-differentiable nature and their inherent randomness, which makes it difficult for an adversary to circumvent the defenses. Our best defense eliminates 60% of strong gray-box and 90% of strong black-box attacks by a variety of major attack methods

653 citations


Authors

Showing all 7875 results

NameH-indexPapersCitations
Yoshua Bengio2021033420313
Xiang Zhang1541733117576
Jitendra Malik151493165087
Trevor Darrell148678181113
Christopher D. Manning138499147595
Robert W. Heath128104973171
Pieter Abbeel12658970911
Yann LeCun121369171211
Li Fei-Fei120420145574
Jon Kleinberg11744487865
Sergey Levine11565259769
Richard Szeliski11335972019
Sanjeev Kumar113132554386
Bruce Neal10856187213
Larry S. Davis10769349714
Network Information
Related Institutions (5)
Google
39.8K papers, 2.1M citations

98% related

Microsoft
86.9K papers, 4.1M citations

96% related

Adobe Systems
8K papers, 214.7K citations

94% related

Carnegie Mellon University
104.3K papers, 5.9M citations

91% related

Performance
Metrics
No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20241
202237
20211,738
20202,017
20191,607
20181,229