Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In light of this data scarcity, we position FRMT as a benchmark for few-shot translation, measuring an MT model’s ability to translate into regional varieties when given no more than 100 labeled examples of each language variety. In principle, those methods should also work for other language distinctions, such as formality and style.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Yet, while researchers have enabled robots to hike or jump over some obstacles , there is still no generally accepted benchmark that comprehensively measures robot agility or mobility. Overview of the Barkour benchmark’s obstacle course setup, which consists of weave poles, an A-frame, a broad jump, and pause tables.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In “ The Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning ”, we closely examine and release a newer and more extensive publicly available collection of tasks, templates, and methods for instruction tuning to advance the community’s ability to analyze and improve instruction-tuning methods.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

Rather than largely relying on stochastic methods to provide an answer, the o-series models are trained to "refine their thinking process, try different strategies, and recognize their mistakes." ” Evaluation benchmarks are tricky. Plus, some rely on different benchmarks and methods to test accuracy and hallucinations.

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M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

Hey data friends, it’s our favorite time of the year, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, you can sip your iced coffee outside and read Benchmarks ! Even comparing Total Users from UA to GA4 is not an apples-to-apples comparison since the method Google Analytics uses to track users changed from UA to GA4.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 26, 2025

Nonprofit email benchmarks are more than interesting data points. Comparing your own performance to industry benchmarks can help you identify areas to improve your email strategies. These benchmarks are based on the performance of 37,472 individual email campaigns sent by Neon One clients in 2022. Your list may be different.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this explainer we support with data why testing CPU performance with a GPU bottleneck is a bad idea, so you can have a full understanding of our testing methods when reviewing CPUs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2020

The average nonprofit website has a 1% conversion rate ( according to the M+R Benchmarks report ) and this means that 99% of the people you get to visit your website leave without donating or subscribing to your email list. At the end of the day though, making small changes to your forms or calls-to-action can drive big gains.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Your tone of voice and your brand will then guide you as you actively employ the five communication methods most commonly used in the nonprofit sector. When writing and designing content, keep those five words at the forefront of your mind and work toward having those five words become synonymous with your online brand. Engagement.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 26, 2023

Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) is an area of research that aims to design methods for adapting a pre-trained model (trained on a “source domain”) to a new “target domain”, using only unlabeled data from the latter. Designing adaptation methods for deep models is an important area of research.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And the methods by which Google collects the information it needs to enable all those features are all private and secure — but it’s very difficult to worry that they someday won’t be either. ? Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, this is not a universal benchmark. The most successful method is to budget for operating surpluses annually. It really does depend on the needs of your individual organization. The Workgroup concluded that each organization must arrive at its own rationale for what it considers adequate for financial stability.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

Its latest work is a collaboration with academics from Michigan State University (MSU), with the combined team creating a method to reverse-engineer deepfakes : analyzing AI-generated imagery to reveal identifying characteristics of the machine learning model that created it. The method could help track down those spreading deepfakes online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For many years the dominate benchmark for whether a nonprofit is successfully using mobile and social media has been if they engage or not, but engagement for the sake of engaging is a flawed communication method. Engagement.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 5, 2025

Published on March 5, 2025 10:56 PM GMT In collaboration with Scale AI, we are releasing MASK (Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge) , a benchmark with over 1000 scenarios specifically designed to measure AI honesty. Even when aware of the truth, they often choose to lie in many scenarios in our benchmark.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It consists of two major components: an open dataset of egocentric video and a series of benchmarks that Facebook thinks AI systems should be able to tackle in the future. In 2012, the winning entry in the competition used a particular method of deep learning to blast past rivals, inaugurating the current era of research.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For the most important dashboards, data teams can go a step further by creating a benchmark for respondents, like “We estimate the cost of maintaining this dashboard to be about $5,000 last quarter. For example, they asked respondents how much they would have to be paid not to use Facebook or Google Maps for a year. ($40

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Decide how information can be efficiently and realistically gathered utilizing the different methods that are best for your organization including: Surveys - Consider what features you will need. Interviews and focus groups - The desired outcome of this type of method is to solicit data without any influence or bias.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The best method is to use tools that automatically update the card number. The number one thing I hope anyone takes away from this Recurring Giving Benchmark Study is that a recurring donation is not just of tremendous value to the organization – it is of tremendous value to the donor. 2/3s of organizations had this enabled.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters. Common benchmarks include the number of new donors, the number of new email subscribers, or volunteer sign-ups. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

With the above challenges in mind, in “ AVFormer: Injecting Vision into Frozen Speech Models for Zero-Shot AV-ASR ”, we present a simple method for augmenting existing large-scale audio-only models with visual information, at the same time performing lightweight domain adaptation. LibriSpeech ). Unconstrained audiovisual speech recognition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 27, 2016

One of the primary goal of this research was to provide a set of online technology benchmarks for NGOs worldwide. Benchmarks by continent are detailed in the report , but the global findings also serve as realistic, achievable online technology benchmarks for NGOs worldwide that currently utilize the Internet on a regular basis.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

bbcon 2020 is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be presenting on the critical role of benchmarking and analytics in shaping your fundraising strategy. One way to help organize results is through benchmarking your performance against other organizations and fundraising programs.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 20, 2023

A number of neural network–based solutions have been able to show good performance on benchmarks and also support the above criterion. However, these methods are typically slow to train and can be expensive for inference, especially for longer horizons. Left: MSE on the test set of a popular traffic forecasting benchmark.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We winnow out 90% of the ideas proposed to us based on our New Project Assessment Method , incubate some of the selected 10%, and then pick one or two for follow-on funding. And, for projects that don’t lend themselves to cost benchmarking, we’re looking for something that would transform a field.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

million seed round led by Benchmark with participation from Index Ventures and a number of angels including Plaid co-founder William Hockey. Thrive Capital led the Series A, which also included participation from Coatue Management and existing backers Benchmark and Index. The round caught our attention for a couple of reasons.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So, we ask the question: Can we enable similar pre-training to accelerate RL methods and create a general-purpose “backbone” for efficient RL across various tasks? While prior methods often used relatively shallow convolutional networks , we found that models as large as a ResNet 101 led to significant improvements over smaller models.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. boost in their conversion rates.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

For this method to be foolproof, you must use reliable retention data, which can be hard to come by for startups with little historical data. Unfortunately, we see startups falling outside of these benchmarks all the time. For example, while Asana takes almost five years to recoup its CAC, Monday achieves this 2.3

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

We use a multi-method approach with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to critically examine and shape the social and technical processes that underpin and surround AI technologies. We have developed frameworks to document annotation processes and methods to account for rater disagreement and rater diversity.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OSS Vizier is designed for two main purposes: (1) managing and optimizing experiments at scale in a reliable and distributed manner for users, and (2) developing and benchmarking algorithms for automated machine learning (AutoML) researchers.

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NetWits

MAY 30, 2012

The trick is to quickly turn those online givers into long term supporters through offline methods. You do a lot of work to build up your online fundraising program only to see an increased number of one-time givers. i.e. Direct Mail. When you can convert an online donor to an offline channel (i.e.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

The prevalence of these methods was because existing end-to-end computer vision models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformers pre-trained on natural images could not be easily adapted to visual language. An illustration of the DePlot+LLM method. Both papers will be presented at ACL2023.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In July 2019, The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper was released in partnership between Blackbaud, NetHope, and NTEN. The goal was twofold: To educate on the current value of benchmarking in the social good sector and. Insights into the Collaborative Benchmarking Survey Results. Programs.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To collect a representative sample, we recommend administering surveys using multiple methods—in person, via text, by email, etc.—and At L4G, response rates vary by collection method, from a median of 64% for in-person surveys to 32% for emailed surveys. and explaining why you are gathering the information.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Fixing the desired cost or recall as input, the proposed algorithm generates tunings that empirically are very close to the speed-recall Pareto frontier and give leading performance on standard benchmarks. We also introduced Sequential Attention , a differentiable feature selection method that combines attention with a greedy algorithm.

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