Posted by Ted Baltz, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research For more than 70 years, plasma physicists have dreamed of controlled “breakeven” fusion, where a system is capable of releasing more energy in a fusion reaction than it takes to…
Posted by Catherine Armato, Google Research This week, the annual conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021) will be held both virtually and in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. As a Diamond Level sponsor of EMNLP 2021, Google…
Posted by Suyog Gupta and Marie White, Software Engineers, Google Research This fall Pixel 6 phones launched with Google Tensor, Google’s first mobile system-on-chip (SoC), bringing together various processing components (such as central/graphic/tensor processing units, image processors, etc.) onto a…
Posted by Michael Dixon, Software Engineer and Reena Singhal Lee, Product Manager, Google Health Earlier this year, we launched Contactless Sleep Sensing in Nest Hub, an opt-in feature that can help users better understand their sleep patterns and nighttime wellness.…
Posted by Xiaofang Wang, Intern and Yair Alon (prev. Movshovitz-Attias), Software Engineer, Google Research When building a deep model for a new machine learning application, researchers often begin with existing network architectures, such as ResNets or EfficientNets. If the initial…
Posted by Dave Epstein, Student Researcher and Chen Sun, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research Machine learning (ML) agents are increasingly deployed in the real world to make decisions and assist people in their daily lives. Making reasonable predictions about the…
Posted by Artem Dementyev, Hardware Engineer, Google Research Most wearable smart devices and mobile phones have the means to communicate with the user through tactile feedback, enabling applications from simple notifications to sensory substitution for accessibility. Typically, they accomplish this…
Posted by Tony Mak, Software Engineer, Google Research and Simon Tong, Principal Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Despite the success and widespread adoption of smartphones, using them to compose longer pieces of text is still quite cumbersome. As one writes,…
Posted by Christopher Fifty, Research Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Many machine learning (ML) models typically focus on learning one task at a time. For example, language models predict the probability of a next word given a context of past…
Posted by Alisa Chang, Software Engineer, Google Cloud and Pritish Kamath, Research Scientist, Google Research Over the last several years, progress has been made on privacy-safe approaches for handling sensitive data, for example, while discovering insights into human mobility and…