Hugging Face Blog

Machine Learning Experts - Margaret Mitchell

Towards Data Science
Sep 1

Beyond Point Predictions: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Neural Networks

The article "Beyond Point Predictions: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Neural Networks" discusses how Bayesian neural networks enable more informed decision-making by quantifying uncertainty in predictions. It introduces practical aspects of implementing these models and highlights their advantages over traditional point prediction approaches.

By Tom Narock
OpenAI Blog
Jun 21, 2016

Concrete AI safety problems

We (along with researchers from Berkeley and Stanford) are co-authors on today’s paper led by Google Brain researchers, Concrete Problems in AI Safety. The paper explores many research problems around ensuring that modern machine learning systems operate as intended.

arXiv Statistics ML
4d ago

The Benchmarking Epistemology: Validity Theory for Evaluating Machine Learning Models

The article discusses how predictive benchmarking—evaluating machine learning models by their performance and ranking—serves as a core method in machine learning research. It argues that benchmark scores only reflect performance on specific datasets and learning problems, and that drawing broader scientific conclusions requires explicit assumptions. By adapting concepts from psychological validity theory, the authors propose validity conditions to make these assumptions clear, and demonstrate their application in two case studies (ImageNet and the Fragile Families Challenge) to illustrate how benchmark results can inform inferences about research progress and limits of predictability.

By Timo Freiesleben, Sebastian Zezulka