New paper from Ian GoodFellow on reducing the amount of annotation required for DL:
Use supervised labels as well as semi-supervised predicted labels;
Sharpen the resulting predicted distributions;
Use mix-up;
Have 2 losses - for supervised and semi-supervised parts of the dataset;
Parallel Neural Text-to-Speech. The paper does not recognize all the progress made by IAF vocoders in 2018, but the idea is cool - distill a recurrent spectrogram network into a non recurrent one;
Effectiveness of basic methods for account protection;
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