Seminar by Serge Belongie: " A New Workflow for Collaborative Machine Learning Research in Biodiversity"

Title: A New Workflow for Collaborative Machine Learning Research in Biodiversity

Abstract: In collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), iNaturalist, and Visipedia, we have introduced a new workflow for biodiversity research institutions who would like to make use of Machine Learning. With its billion+ species occurrence count contributed by thousands of institutions around the globe, GBIF is playing a vital role in enabling this workflow, whether in terms of data aggregation, collaboration across teams, or standardizing citation practices. In the short term, the most important role relates to an emerging cultural shift in accepted practices for the use of mediated data for training of ML models. In the process of data mediation, GBIF helps ensure that training datasets for ML follow standardized licensing terms, use compatible taxonomies and data formats, and provide fair and sufficient data coverage for the ML task at hand by potentially sampling from multiple source datasets.

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