Foundation models for reasoning on charts

Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, Research Software Engineer, Google Research Visual language is the form of communication that relies on pictorial symbols outside of text to convey information. It is ubiquitous in our digital life in the form of iconography,...

A Timing Update on Title IX Rulemaking

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring all students are guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex. To that end, amending the Department of Education’s (Department’s) regulations that implement Title IX of the...

Barkour: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots

Posted by Ken Caluwaerts and Atil Iscen, Research Scientists, Google Creating robots that exhibit robust and dynamic locomotion capabilities, similar to animals or humans, has been a long-standing goal in the robotics community. In addition to completing tasks quickly...

Celebrating the impact of IDSS

The “interdisciplinary approach” is something that has been lauded for decades for its ability to break down silos and create new integrated approaches to research. For Munther Dahleh, founding director of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS),...

Google Research at I/O 2023

Posted by James Manyika, SVP Google Research and Technology & Society, and Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research Wednesday, May 10th was an exciting day for the Google Research community as we watched the results of months and years of...

Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets

Posted by Vincent Cohen-Addad and Alessandro Epasto, Research Scientists, Google Research, Graph Mining team Clustering is a central problem in unsupervised machine learning (ML) with many applications across domains in both industry and academic research more...

Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working

Despite their enormous size and power, today’s artificial intelligence systems routinely fail to distinguish between hallucination and reality. Autonomous driving systems can fail to perceive pedestrians and emergency vehicles right in front of them, with fatal...