Fantastic Data and How to Query Them
This addresses inefficiencies in data management for AI practitioners, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing query language concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of fragmented datasets in AI by proposing a unified framework for integrating and querying datasets, demonstrated in computer vision to facilitate easier management and access.
It is commonly acknowledged that the availability of the huge amount of (training) data is one of the most important factors for many recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, datasets are often designed for specific tasks in narrow AI sub areas and there is no unified way to manage and access them. This not only creates unnecessary overheads when training or deploying Machine Learning models but also limits the understanding of the data, which is very important for data-centric AI. In this paper, we present our vision about a unified framework for different datasets so that they can be integrated and queried easily, e.g., using standard query languages. We demonstrate this in our ongoing work to create a framework for datasets in Computer Vision and show its advantages in different scenarios. Our demonstration is available at https://vision.semkg.org.