Something that many people don’t think much about viruses is that, like every other organism on Earth struggling for survival, they evolve, or mutate. …clearly, the coronavirus has changed its… (more…)

A collaboration from UoC Berkeley, Stanford University and Facebook offers a deeper and more granular picture of the actual state of poverty in and across nations, through the use of machine learning. The research, entitled Micro-Estimates of Wealth for a... (more…)

In the context of science, the well-known adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" might well be "a model is worth a thousand datasets." Scientific models, such as Newtonian physics or biological gene regulatory networks, are human-driven simplificatio... (more…)

Articles Overview, goals, learning types, and algorithms Data selection, preparation, and modeling Model evaluation, validation, complexity, and... (more…)

Inference attacks against Machine Learning (ML) models allow adversaries to learn information about training data, model parameters, etc. While researchers have studied these attacks thoroughly, they have done so in isolation. We lack a comprehensive pict... (more…)