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Translating machine learning research into production-ready software

Our vision is to build upon growing technologies and research by translating theory into meaningful projects.

The Reflections team wearing the smart glasses they built

Every semester we work on internal projects and with our industry partners.

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Internal

Our own ideas

Every semester our project leaders look for challenging problems to tackle with state of the art techniques. With access to Launchpad resources, each team designs creative solutions to unique problems. Check out some of our projects below!

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Industry

Problems companies bring us

Through industry partnerships our teams tackle meaningful machine learning challenges with experienced project leaders and members. We deliver customized solutions designed to fit a company's unique technical needs.

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Featured projects
  1. 01

    Reflections

    Proactive AI on smart glasses that remember everything

    The Reflections team at the Berkeley fountain
    The glasses' point of view: a person framed by a detection box with a live transcript along the bottom
  2. 02

    Whisk

    Training a robotic arm to make matcha autonomously

    The robot arm's gripper closing on a fingertip, laptop and hardware behind it
    A member assembling the robot arm at a kitchen table
  3. 03

    Ember

    Predicting stunning sunsets ahead of time, leveraging deep learning

    Two screens from the Ember app: a sunset score for San Diego, and a nine-day forecast
    Launchpad members on a Berkeley rooftop at sunset
  4. 04

    AlgoRhythm

    Matching videos to vibe-fitting and context-relevant background music

    The AlgoRhythm team in front of their presentation title slide
    The AlgoRhythm web app: record or upload a video, with the original and scored versions side by side
  5. 05

    Qompose

    Learning interactions between words naturally using quantum entanglement

    Qompose project artwork
    Launchpad members on the winter retreat

Project Archives

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    Ember

    Predicting stunning sunsets ahead of time, leveraging weather forecasts and deep learning models.

  • Fitness Trainer logo

    Fitness Trainer

    AI personal trainer using computer vision and modern smart sensors with supervised learning models.

  • Magic Cam logo

    Magic Cam

    A physical camera that casts a spell on the world it sees. Putting an artistic spin on everyday pictures with generative models.

  • Neural Navigator logo

    Neural Navigator

    Tired of studying and wanna look for things to do this weekend? We got you with cool personalized activity recommendations on Neural Navigator using GNNs!

  • LeanLaw logo

    LeanLaw

    Develop an NLP model for a legal billing software company to answer client questions

  • Create quantum machine learning models to generate natural language using parameterized quantum circuits and category theory NLP.

  • Generate rock climbing moves using RNNs and Transformers. Climbing made easy.

  • Generate video game worlds in Blender with NeRFs and style transfer.

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  • HiddenLayer logo

    HiddenLayer

    Extract from black-boxed models and adversarially attack various architectures using replicated models

  • Convert pictures of food to fancy plated versions through a novel transformer architecture and latent diffusion models

  • Efficiently train and deploy machine learning models with limited memory

  • Train a model to generate audio in your own voice, using signal processing techniques, GANs and autoencoders

  • Create a web app where users can generate their own lofi and game beats to study/chill to using transformers and LSTMs

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    Attune

    Use different unsupervised/clustering models to detect anomalies in high-dimensional sensor data

  • Train an imitation learning agent to recreate stylized motions on simulated characters

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    Ditto

    Transfer styles of pokemon sprites onto pet images using GANs and contrastive learning

  • GeoKnowr logo

    GeoKnowr

    Create Geoguessr bot that predicts GPS locations given image using CNNs and LSTMs

  • Hummus logo

    Hummus

    Humanize computer music to match the lifelikeness of real performance with VAEs and transformers

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    Launchkart

    Develop an intelligent Mario Kart agent that can replicate the skill and technique of a human player using behavior cloning algorithms

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    Lilspeare

    Converting rap lyrics to Shakespearian-style text using Transformers and RNNs. The 1500's never looked so dope.

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    Reconstructor

    Creating high-quality 3D reconstructions from photos of our own. Each member will choose variable scenes and items to reconstruct with NeRF and various follow up methods.

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    Duet

    Experiment with a VQ-VAE based network for converting audio to the style of another audio file

  • Inflection logo

    Inflection

    Create a voice conversion model framework for voice assistants, implementing data generation, spectral analysis, and an Amazon Lex-based web app

  • Lightspeed logo

    Lightspeed

    Artificially stain various cellular samples using cutting edge style transfer techniques

  • Lucinator logo

    Lucinator

    Build a production ready virtual assistant chatbot with robust machine learning pipelines and slack integration

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    Phodexr

    Enable semantic search through images and other mediums in a zero-shot manner with CLIP

  • Scribe logo

    Scribe

    Few-shot meta learning to learn handwriting styles and generate similar handwritten text using GANs

  • AI Brain logo

    AI Brain

    Experiment on multi-agent reinforcement learning for playing the popular sport, soccer

  • Arturo logo

    Arturo

    Apply Computer Vision techniques to improve tiny object detection on measuring roof debris and damage

  • Rosetta logo

    Rosetta

    Build an encoder for images that can perform few-shot training across CV tasks using unsupervised learning

  • Shallowsleep logo

    Shallowsleep

    Explore adversarial models to track sleep stages by comparing results from watch and radio frequency data to brain wave data

  • Strategist logo

    Strategist

    Develop a profitable trading strategy for the market today based on common technical indicators

  • Raise logo

    Raise

    Create an AI web app using Monte Carlo sampling, deep and reinforcement learning to play heads up and nine handed no-limit Texas Hold'em poker

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    Illustrator

    A pictionary-like web game with a bot to generate and classify sketches

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    Interact

    Building models that detect, contextualize, and identify relationships between humans and objects in images.

  • Memories logo

    Memories

    A web app where users can upload pictures from their photo album and generate ambient sounds and songs from the image’s scenery and emotion

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    Watchman

    Merging information between multiple cameras to track objects of interest accurately in 3D spaces

  • Brawl logo

    Brawl

    Training state of the art reinforcement learning agents to play the popular game, Super Smash Bros Melee

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    BackyardIOT

    Animal information and tracking using a CNN with Raspberry Pi to send information to the cloud

  • Emergence logo

    Emergence

    Reinforcement learning in competitive environments for simulating intelligence

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    Evolve

    Universal codebook for image compression using evolutionary-based optimization methods

  • Inspector logo

    Inspector

    Fake news detecting Chrome extension incorporating NLP techniques and stance detections

  • Orchestrator logo

    Orchestrator

    Converting music between different styles/instrumentations using encoder-decoder networks in PyTorch

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    Tonal

    Post-workout image generation using generative adversarial networks

  • BalliNN logo

    BalliNN

    NBA playoff performance prediction from regular season data using statistical learning and neural networks

  • ClairVoyance logo

    ClairVoyance

    Weather forecasting using high-resolution video frame prediction using CNNs and RNNs

  • Musecage logo

    Musecage

    Answering visual questions using image and word embeddings and recurrent attention algorithms

  • Snapshot logo

    Snapshot

    Beautifying Berkeley with a #filter created with CycleGAN, an image to image translation neural network

  • SpeculateAI logo

    SpeculateAI

    Stock market trend prediction using NLP and time series analysis

  • DarkLight logo

    DarkLight

    Improving existing convolutional neural network architecture for real-time low-light image inferencing

  • DreamRL logo

    DreamRL

    Generative models for reinforcement learning to attain high performance with simplicity

  • Explorer logo

    Explorer

    Analyzing exploration and curiosity-based techniques in deep reinforcement learning

  • GrubGen logo

    GrubGen

    Food image generation using generative adversarial networks

  • Dangersense logo

    Dangersense

    Detecting and responding to dangerous driving situation by predicting collisions and road closures

  • Ford logo

    Ford

    Predicting driver behavior to improve rider experience in autonomous vehicles using kinematics and LSTMs

  • MOR logo

    MOR

    Multi-Objective Robotics solution for efficient and adaptive robot operation

  • MeTal logo

    MeTal

    Meta learning and multi-task learning

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    Facelift

    Augmenting low-fidelity images of 2D faces using 3D facial reconstruction

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    Jazz

    Generating jazz melodies in specified styles using Markov chains and clustering

  • DeepBeat logo

    DeepBeat

    Polyphonic music generation using deep neural networks

  • Sherlock logo

    Sherlock

    Building a human-centric computer vision API that provides optimized algorithms for object detection and tracking

  • Stella logo

    Stella

    Voice controlled computers using natural language processing