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Barret Zoph is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States focusing on various domains within computer science. Their work primarily spans several subfields, including artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, automotive engineering, information systems, and health informatics.

The researcher has contributed extensively to the literature on advanced neural network applications, topic modeling, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, natural language processing techniques, multimodal machine learning applications, video surveillance and tracking methods, and machine learning and data classification.

Barret Zoph has published the majority of their work through the venue arXiv (Cornell University), with 22 publications recorded there. Other publication venues include Lecture Notes in Computer Science, the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and the 2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW).

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ekin D. Cubuk, Quoc V. Le, William Fedus, Tsung-Yi Lin, and Jonathon Shlens.

Several notable papers by Barret Zoph include:

  1. PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  2. Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  3. Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  4. Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  5. Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition

    Barret Zoph;Vijay Vasudevan;Jonathon Shlens;Quoc V. Le

  • Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

    Barret Zoph;Quoc V. Le

  • SpecAugment: A Simple Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition

    Daniel S. Park;William Chan;Yu Zhang;Chung-Cheng Chiu

  • RandAugment: Practical Automated Data Augmentation with a Reduced Search Space

    Ekin Dogus Cubuk;Barret Zoph;Jon Shlens;Quoc Le

  • AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Strategies From Data

    Ekin D. Cubuk;Barret Zoph;Dandelion Mane;Vijay Vasudevan

  • Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

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  • Progressive Neural Architecture Search

    Chenxi Liu;Barret Zoph;Maxim Neumann;Jonathon Shlens

  • Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

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  • Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameters Sharing

    Hieu Pham;Melody Y. Guan;Barret Zoph;Quoc V. Le

  • Searching for Activation Functions

    Prajit Ramachandran;Barret Zoph;Quoc V. Le

  • AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Policies from Data

    Ekin Dogus Cubuk;Barret Zoph;Dandelion Mane;Vijay Vasudevan

  • Attention Augmented Convolutional Networks

    Irwan Bello;Barret Zoph;Quoc Le;Ashish Vaswani

  • Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameter Sharing

    Hieu Pham;Melody Y. Guan;Barret Zoph;Quoc V. Le

  • Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

    Barret Zoph;Deniz Yuret;Jonathan May;Kevin Knight

  • Simple Copy-Paste is a Strong Data Augmentation Method for Instance Segmentation

    Golnaz Ghiasi;Yin Cui;Aravind Srinivas;Rui Qian

  • AugMix: A Simple Data Processing Method to Improve Robustness and Uncertainty

    Dan Hendrycks;Norman Mu;Ekin Dogus Cubuk;Barret Zoph

  • Swish: a Self-Gated Activation Function

    Prajit Ramachandran;Barret Zoph;Quoc V. Le

  • Understanding and Simplifying One-Shot Architecture Search

    Gabriel M. Bender;Pieter-jan Kindermans;Barret Zoph;Vijay Vasudevan

  • Learning Data Augmentation Strategies for Object Detection

    Barret Zoph;Ekin D. Cubuk;Golnaz Ghiasi;Tsung-Yi Lin

  • Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity.

    William Fedus;Barret Zoph;Noam Shazeer

  • Rethinking Pre-training and Self-training

    Barret Zoph;Golnaz Ghiasi;Tsung-Yi Lin;Yin Cui

  • Searching for Efficient Multi-Scale Architectures for Dense Image Prediction

    Liang-Chieh Chen;Maxwell D. Collins;Yukun Zhu;George Papandreou

  • Neural optimizer search with reinforcement learning

    Irwan Bello;Barret Zoph;Vijay Vasudevan;Quoc V. Le

Frequent Co-Authors

Ekin D. Cubuk
Ekin D. Cubuk Google (United States)
Jonathon Shlens
Jonathon Shlens Google (United States)
Quoc V. Le
Quoc V. Le Google (United States)
Tsung-Yi Lin
Tsung-Yi Lin Nvidia (United States)
Vijay K. Vasudevan
Vijay K. Vasudevan Google (United States)
Hartwig Adam
Hartwig Adam Google (United States)
Kevin Knight
Kevin Knight University of Southern California
Li Fei-Fei
Li Fei-Fei Stanford University
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean Google (United States)

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