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Google Research πŸ‘€ Hari Narasimhan and Aditya Menon, Research Scientists, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-09-11

Speculative cascades β€” A hybrid approach for smarter, faster LLM inference

We introduce β€œspeculative cascades”, a new approach that improves LLM efficiency and computational costs by combining speculative decoding with standard cascades.

Speculative cascades β€” A hybrid approach for smarter, faster LLM inference
Google Research πŸ‘€ Cory Y. McLean, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-09-11

Smarter nucleic acid design with NucleoBench and AdaBeam

We developed an open-source software benchmark for nucleic acid sequence design, and introduced a novel algorithm, AdaBeam, that outperforms existing algorithms on 11 the 16 tasks, demonstrating …

Smarter nucleic acid design with NucleoBench and AdaBeam
Google Research πŸ‘€ Lizzie Dorfman, Product Manager, and Michael Brenner, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-09-09

Accelerating scientific discovery with AI-powered empirical software

Our new AI system helps scientists write empirical software, achieving expert-level results on six diverse, challenging problems.

Accelerating scientific discovery with AI-powered empirical software
Google Research πŸ‘€ Mike Schaekermann, Research Lead, and Paul Jhun, Medical Education Lead, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-27

How Google’s AI can help transform health professions education

We explore the utility of Google’s AI models as helpful tools in medical learning environments. By employing a learner-centered and evaluation-driven approach, we seek to reimagine the future …

How Google’s AI can help transform health professions education
Google Research πŸ‘€ Ahmed A. Metwally and Daniel McDuff, Staff Research Scientists, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-26

A scalable framework for evaluating health language models

Evaluation of language models in complex domains (such as health) can be expensive and labor intensive. We present a new adaptive and precise rubric methodology that saves time and increases …

A scalable framework for evaluating health language models
Google Research πŸ‘€ Andrey Vakunov, Software Engineer, Google Cloud, and Adam Svystun, Software Engineer, YouTube πŸ“… 2025-08-21

From massive models to mobile magic: The tech behind YouTube real-time generative AI effects

We detail how YouTube delivers real-time generative AI effects on mobile devices by using knowledge distillation and on-device optimization with MediaPipe to overcome computational limitations …

From massive models to mobile magic: The tech behind YouTube real-time generative AI effects
Google Research πŸ‘€ Justin Y Chen, Student Researcher, and Morteza Zadimoghaddam, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-20

Securing private data at scale with differentially private partition selection

We present novel algorithms to preserve user privacy in data releases, improving the state of the art in differentially private partition selection.

Securing private data at scale with differentially private partition selection
Google Research πŸ‘€ Shanshan Wu, Software Engineer, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-14

Beyond billion-parameter burdens: Unlocking data synthesis with a conditional generator

We present a novel privacy-preserving synthetic data generation algorithm that enables automatic topic-wise distribution matching, making it accessible even for resource-constrained AI …

Beyond billion-parameter burdens: Unlocking data synthesis with a conditional generator
Google Research πŸ‘€ David Stutz, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Natalie Harris, Software Engineer, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-12

Enabling physician-centered oversight for AMIE

We introduce guardrailed-AMIE (g-AMIE), a diagnostic AI designed for history-taking. g-AMIE operates with a guardrail that prohibits it from giving individualized medical advice, instead …

Enabling physician-centered oversight for AMIE
Google Research πŸ‘€ Markus Krause, Engineering Manager, and Nancy Chang, Research Scientist, Google Ads πŸ“… 2025-08-07

Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels

A new active learning method for curating high-quality data that reduces training data requirements for fine-tuning LLMs by orders of magnitude.

Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels
Google Research πŸ‘€ Ahmed A. Metwally, Staff Research Scientist, and A. Ali Heydari, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-06

Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers

Leveraging wearable data and routine blood tests, we propose a novel method for effectively predicting insulin resistance, providing a scalable and accessible approach for early type 2 diabetes …

Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers
Google Research πŸ‘€ Kishwar Shafin, Technical Lead, and Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-08-06

Highly accurate genome polishing with DeepPolisher: Enhancing the foundation of genomic research

DeepPolisher, is a new deep learning tool that significantly improves the accuracy of genome assemblies by precisely correcting base-level errors, which recently played a key role in enhancing …

Highly accurate genome polishing with DeepPolisher: Enhancing the foundation of genomic research
Google Research πŸ‘€ Jinsung Yoon, Research Scientist, and Jaehyun Nam, Student Researcher, Google Cloud πŸ“… 2025-08-01

MLE-STAR: A state-of-the-art machine learning engineering agent

MLE-STAR is a state-of-the-art machine learning engineering agent capable of automating various machine learning tasks across diverse data modalities while achieving top performances.

MLE-STAR: A state-of-the-art machine learning engineering agent
Google Research πŸ‘€ Yash Akhauri, Student Researcher, Google Research, and Xingyou (Richard) Song, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind πŸ“… 2025-07-29

Simulating large systems with Regression Language Models

We propose text-to-text regression with language models to solve all numeric prediction problems.

Simulating large systems with Regression Language Models
Google Research πŸ‘€ Yuzhe Yang, Visiting Faculty Researcher, and Kumar Ayush, Senior Research Engineer, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-07-28

SensorLM: Learning the language of wearable sensors

We present SensorLM, a new family of sensor–language foundation models trained on 60 million hours of data, connecting multimodal wearable sensor signals to natural language for a deeper …

SensorLM: Learning the language of wearable sensors
Google Research πŸ‘€ Zheng Xu, Research Scientist, and Yanxiang Zhang, Software Engineer, Google πŸ“… 2025-07-24

Synthetic and federated: Privacy-preserving domain adaptation with LLMs for mobile applications

Privacy-preserving synthetic data in federated learning can improve both small and large language models, with practical applications in Gboard to improve users’ typing experience.

Synthetic and federated: Privacy-preserving domain adaptation with LLMs for mobile applications
A List Apart πŸ‘€ Michel Ferreira πŸ“… 2025-07-23

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the …

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership
Google Research πŸ‘€ Girish Narayanswamy and Maxwell A. Xu, Student Researchers, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-07-22

LSM-2: Learning from incomplete wearable sensor data

We introduce LSM-2 with Adaptive and Inherited Masking (AIM), a novel self-supervised learning approach that learns directly from incomplete wearable sensor data, achieving strong performance …

LSM-2: Learning from incomplete wearable sensor data
Google Research πŸ‘€ Ela Gruzewska, Software Engineer, and Pooja Rao, Research Scientist, Google Research πŸ“… 2025-07-17

Measuring heart rate with consumer ultra-wideband radar

Transfer learning enables contactless heart rate monitoring via ultra-wideband radar, paving the way for its deployment in everyday mobile electronic devices.

Measuring heart rate with consumer ultra-wideband radar
Google Research πŸ‘€ Marc Stogaitis, Principal Software Engineer, Android πŸ“… 2025-07-17

Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning

Using aggregated measurements from a global network of Android smartphones, we developed a system that detects earthquakes, delivers early warnings to users, and builds user trust with each …

Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning