Classification using LLMs: best practices and benchmarks

LLM-powered classification is quick and easy, but not very accurate. Transfer learning does significantly better but requires training data and more development work. AutoML sites like Nyckel offers the best of both worlds: superior accuracy with the ease of LLM powered zero-shot classification.

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11 Roboflow Alternatives & Competitors

Roboflow is a great brand - but this articles dives into their alternatives & competitors.

Posted Dec 2024

Classification using LLMs: best practices and benchmarks

LLM-powered classification is quick and easy, but not very accurate. Transfer learning does significantly better but requires training data and more development work. AutoML sites like Nyckel offers the best of both worlds: superior accuracy with the ease of LLM powered zero-shot classification.

Posted Sep 2024

ChatGPT Alternatives for Classification

ChatGPT and other LLMs work well for generative AI and many classification use cases. But they aren't always ideal. This article covers the pros/cons of using ChatGPT for classification.

Posted Sep 2024

Nyckel and Contextual join forces to make building an AI workflow even easier

Customers of Contextual can now use Nyckel’s platform to categorize content and then use that information in subsequent business decisions.

Posted Aug 2024

Retailhub auto-tags hundreds of thousands of products using Nyckel

Retailhub automates web store discoverability by auto-tagging products by category and metadata

Posted Aug 2024

Calibrating LLM classification confidences

LLMs are often used to classify text content, achieving strong zero-shot accuracy. However, the classification confidences tend to be unreliable. Incorrect classifications are often assigned high confidence, and vice versa. In this post we look at two methods for inferring classification confidences from LLMs, and show how to (mostly) fix the confidence estimates using post-hoc calibration.

Posted Aug 2024

LinkedClient builds highly-accurate sales intent engine in just minutes

LinkedClient used Nyckel to quickly build a feature that analyzes sales intent in emails and Linkedin messages.

Posted Jun 2024

How much training data is needed for classification?

How much training data do you need to train a solid image or text classifier? Not as much as you'd think!

Posted May 2024

Introducing Multimodal Classification

Nyckel is proud to announce the launch of a new function type - multimodal classification.

Posted May 2024

Free Confusion Matrix Creator

A confusion matrix is a great way of visualizing your machine learning classification models. This tool makes it easy to build them.

Posted May 2024

Logo Detection: How to Build a Logo Detector

Logo detection allows you to detect how your brand logo is being used and where. This article explains what logo detection is and how to build your own logo detector.

Posted Apr 2024

How to Map Job Titles to Departments Within Your CRM

How to use natural language processing to easily map a contact's title to their department within your CRM.

Posted Apr 2024

What Is Text Classification? The Definitive 2024 Guide

Text classification is the process of dividing text into different groups based on its content. Learn more about text classification in this article.

Posted Mar 2024

What Is Image Classification? The Definitive 2024 Guide

Image classification is the process of dividing entire images into different groups based on their content. Learn more about image classification in this article.

Posted Feb 2024

Image Classification vs. Object Detection: Key Differences & How to Choose

Image classification and object detection are two popular types of computer vision. We outline the differences and how to choose between them.

Posted Feb 2024

8 Best Image Recognition APIs You Can Train With Your Own Data

Image recognition APIs automate the process of labeling images. Learn about the 8 best image recognition APIs available.

Posted Jan 2024

Build a Custom Food Image Recognition Classifier in 5 Steps

Food image recognition makes it simple to label food items in your images. Learn more about food image recognition and how to build a custom classifier with Nyckel.

Posted Jan 2024

How to Easily Create a Document Classification Machine Learning Function

Document classification makes it easier to label, sort, and retrieve various types of documents. See how easy it is to manage your business documents with Nyckel.

Posted Jan 2024

A Quick Guide to Remote Sensing Image Classification (+ How to Build a Classifier)

Image classification can help us make sense of vast amounts of remote sensing data. Learn how to easily build a remote sensing image classifier with Nyckel.

Posted Dec 2023

5 Steps to Build a Custom Car Identifier in Minutes

A custom car identifier enables you to quickly and accurately label images of cars with their make, model, and color. Learn how to build a car identifier with Nyckel.

Posted Dec 2023

Nyckel Is Proud to Announce Our Integration With Zapier

Use Zapier to integrate with Nyckel's classification functions. The integration allows you to import, train, and classify from thousands of data sources.

Posted Dec 2023

PyTorch Image Classification: A Step-by-Step Guide (+ An Alternative Method)

Learn how to build an image classification model with PyTorch and get introduced to Nyckel as an alternative. Identify the best fit for you based on your requirements and ML expertise.

Posted Nov 2023

Nyckel vs. Keras Image Classification Comparison

Learn how to build an image classification model with Keras and get introduced to Nyckel as an alternative. Identify the best fit for you based on your requirements and ML expertise.

Posted Nov 2023

What Is Image Recognition? (And How Does It Differ From Image Classification?)

Image recognition uses AI to identify patterns in images. But its means is vague, which causes confusion. Learn more about what image recognition really means.

Posted Nov 2023

Introducing Invoke Capture - Automatically Gather Important Data to Improve Your Model

With Nyckel's invoke capture feature, we automatically and intelligently capture data from your deployed models for your team to review and annotate in Nyckel's dashboard.

Posted Oct 2023

AI Image Detector: Can You Use Image Classification to Spot the Fakes?

We build an AI image detector to see how accurately an image classification function can spot AI-generated images. Learn more and build a classifier of your own.

Posted Sep 2023

End-to-End AutoML: Your AutoML Platform Should Span the Entire ML Development Lifecycle

And end-to-end AutoML platform that handles all aspects of the ML development lifecycle offers significant benefits when compared to AutoML platforms that only do model training.

Posted Jun 2023

What's Best for Content Moderation? Blacklists vs. Pre-Trained ML vs. Custom ML (A Benchmark)

Comparing accuracy of blacklist, pre-trained & custom-trained ML models for content moderation using a public Kaggle toxicity dataset.

Posted Apr 2023

Why Narrow AI is Better Than GPT-4 For Machine Learning-Driven Decisions

Learn why products that can spring up narrow AI models trained for specific tasks outperform GPT-4 for ML-driven decisions.

Posted Apr 2023

Are Bounding Boxes Necessary for Object Detection?

Are bounding boxes necessary for object detection? We experiment to discover whether center pointing or bounding boxes are more efficient.

Posted Mar 2023

Multiclass vs Multilabel Classification: A 2024 Guide

Understanding the difference between multiclass vs multilabel classification is important before building out your model. This article dives into what they are and when to use each.

Posted Nov 2022

How to Map Job Titles to Departments with Capsule

Use natural language processing and Capsule to easily map a contact's title to their respective department.

Posted Mar 2024

Pretrained Classifiers - March Update

With Nyckel's pretrained classifiers, you can launch your own image and text classification models even faster.

Posted Mar 2024

Pretrained Classifiers - Feb Update

With Nyckel's pretrained classifiers, you can launch your own image and text classification models even faster.

Posted Feb 2024

Using AI-Powered Image Classification to Fight Climate Change

Image classification is proving to be a great way to fight climate change. Learn more about how exactly it's doing that.

Posted Jan 2024

Content Moderation Pretrained Classifiers

With Nyckel's content moderation pretrained classifiers, you can moderate your text and images in just minutes.

Posted Jan 2024

Customized Auto-Tagging for Digital Asset Management

AI auto-tagging of digital assets enables search, discovery, and content-based workflows. Discover how custom models can be trained in minutes with no AI expertise.

Posted Oct 2023

Even More Pretrained Classifiers From Nyckel

With Nyckel's pretrained classifiers, you can launch your own image and text classification models even faster.

Posted Oct 2023

Nyckel's Ad Tech Pretrained Classifiers

With Nyckel's pretrained classifiers for ad tech, you can launch your own image and text classification models even faster.

Posted Sep 2023

Hierarchical Image Classification vs. Flat Classification: What Does Your ML Task Need?

We explain the differences between hierarchical image classification and flat and make the case for why a flat structure is often the better choice.

Posted Aug 2023

9 Must-Have Features for Your AutoML Platform: A Comprehensive Guide

The AutoML platform you choose should do more than train a model. Learn what 9 things you should look for when conducting an AutoML tools comparison.

Posted Aug 2023

Introducing Nyckel Pretrained Classifiers

With Nyckel's pretrained classifiers, you can launch your own image and text classification models even faster.

Posted Aug 2023

Discriminative vs. Generative AI: Which Should You Build Into Your Product?

If you’re considering building AI into your product, it’s important to know the difference between generative and discriminative AI. We dive into the differences and the pros and cons of each.

Posted Jul 2023

What is AutoML? A Comprehensive Guide & What It Means for Product Teams

In this post we look at AutoML, explain what it is and how it works, and discuss how it can benefit product teams trying to build AI-enabled products and features.

Posted Jun 2023

Guide to Computer Vision for Non-ML Experts

The complex nature of computer vision often holds companies back from implementing it in their businesses. This guide shares what you need to know about computer vision.

Posted Jun 2023

Pet Media Group saves $120k annually with AI content moderation

Pet Media Group uses Nyckel's image classification to moderate pet listings to ensure they meet animal welfare policies. Using Nyckel has resulted in $120K in annual savings.

Posted Jun 2023

Image Classification Benchmark: Google, AWS, Hugging Face & Nyckel

In this image classification benchmark, we compare leading AutoML provides on model performance, training time, ablation, latency & throughput of model inference, and developer experience.

Posted May 2023

Computer Vision SaaS Landscape: Comparison of the Top 9 Players

We compare nine leading computer vision SaaS providers on functionality, model creation time, performance, market positioning, and pricing.

Posted May 2023

Google Cloud Vision API Class List: Can We Reverse-Engineer to Find the List?

Google provides a pre-trained computer vision model that tags images with labels based on image contents. In this post, we try to reverse-engineer the labels list.

Posted Apr 2023

How to Classify Time Series Signals With Computer Vision: Kaggle Whale Example

Learn how to use image classification to classify time series signals, and in this case, audio recordings. No ML expertise required. You'll see how to process the audio into images and how to use Nyckel to train an image classification function in minutes.

Posted Mar 2023

Glossary of Computer Vision Function Types

Various types of computer vision can help you identify, categorize, and search among millions of images in just a few moments. Discover the most common types of computer vision.

Posted Mar 2023

9 Ways to Use a Data Engine to Improve Your ML Model

You can improve ML systems in two ways: better models or better data. Learn how to improve your data by finding and annotating hard-to-classify cases.

Posted Mar 2023

28 Practical Computer Vision Use Cases

Learn about 28 practical computer vision use cases that enable companies to automate repetitive tasks or achieve things they couldn’t otherwise.

Posted Feb 2023

A Quick Guide to Semantic Image Search (with Examples)

Semantic image search enables users to search a database of images quickly. Discover 11 practical use cases that support a better user experience.

Posted Feb 2023

Pulse for Good Uses ML to Turn Cumbersome System into Showstopping Product Feature

Pulse for Good uses Nyckel to filter and categorize feedback from people from vulnerable populations so human service providers can better meet their needs.

Posted Feb 2023

Gardyn Reduces Workload by 70%, Grows 2x After Implementing Computer Vision

Gardyn uses Nyckel’s computer vision functions to monitor its customers’ home plant growing systems, significantly reducing Gardyn’s workload while scaling up.

Posted Feb 2023

What Features Does Your Manual Content Moderation Tool Need?

Even the most sophisticated content moderation tools aren't perfect solutions and require some level of manual review. We outline important manual review features.

Posted Jan 2023

The Ever-Growing Landscape of Content Moderation AI Platforms

Learn about the similarities and differences between 9 high-performing content moderation AI platforms to choose the one that’s best for your business.

Posted Jan 2023

How Reddit Could Use Machine Learning to Better Moderate Subreddits

Could online communities like Reddit use machine learning instead of human moderators for content moderation? We experimented with Nyckel's image classifier.

Posted Dec 2022

Service Oriented Design Applies to ML Too

Service oriented design applied to machine learning will help manage ML complexity and build scalable organizations. Learn why.

Posted Dec 2022

Smarter, Faster, Automated Image Organization

Nyckel's real-time API for custom machine learning is a game-changing to for digital asset management. Here is why.

Posted Nov 2022

Best practices for AI content moderation

How do you train, configure, integrate, and monitor an AI-based content moderation system such that it gives your users the best experience while protecting your bottom line?

Posted Nov 2022

How to Approach Multilingual Content Moderation

A lot of the internet's content is in non-mainstream languages. We look at some things to consider when building content moderation models for multi-lingual content.

Posted Nov 2022

Why Content Moderation is Important for Your Business

Some examples of how content moderation can benefit your business in unexpected ways.

Posted Nov 2022

What is class-balance drift, and why does it matter for content moderation?

Class-balance drift can degrade your auto content-moderation system. We look at what it is, how to track it, and what to do when it occurs.

Posted Oct 2022

How What’s That Charge 4x’d It's Revenue Using Nyckel Auto-Moderation

What's That Charge uses Nyckel to automate its content moderation, improving the site's user experience and increasing WTC's revenue.

Posted Oct 2022

Same Same But Different: Content Moderation at Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit

Discover the similarities and differences in content moderation policies of Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit in this in-depth comparison.

Posted Oct 2022

Whac-a-Spammer - How to Deal with Bots on Your Site

Learn the tools, tips, and tricks to prevent bots from taking over your site.

Posted Oct 2022

The Long Tail of Content Moderation Use-Cases

Beyond Spam, NSFW and violence are a long tail of situations that require content moderation across gaming, dating, e-commerce and children's platforms.

Posted Sep 2022

What is Content Moderation?

Content Moderation is critical when hosting user generated content. We break down the basic concepts and solutions.

Posted Sep 2022

4 Steps to Improved Content Moderation

Learn how to improve your content moderation through blacklists and regular expressions, through pre-trained AIs, to custom AI that learns from your data.

Posted Sep 2022

Building a Recommender system using the Nyckel API.

We break down the components of a Recommender system into Collaborative, Content and Hybrid filters. We then show how ot set this up using the Nyckel API.

Posted Sep 2022

Content Moderation using SurgeAI's Toxicity Dataset

Learn how to train a Nyckel text classification model for content moderation using SurgeAI's toxicity dataset.

Posted Sep 2022

Taimi Cuts Content Moderation Time by 3x and Slashes Costs 10x Using Nyckel

Taimi used Nyckel’s text classification API to increase curation coverage and accuracy and reduce latency over time with its auto-retrain. Read more.

Posted Aug 2022

How SPYSCAPE Added Magic Into Their AR Game Using Nyckel

Using Nyckel ML FaaS, SPYSCAPE trained and deployed an image classification function, used as a key feature of the Augmented Reality in-game experience.

Posted Aug 2022

How Startup Accelerator Gust Trained a Custom Spam Filter using Nyckel

Gust used Nyckel to train a custom AI spam filter. The new filter is 95% accurate and reduced their curation workload, while improving site quality.

Posted Aug 2022

IAB Classification of Text and Images Using Machine Learning

IAB is a content taxonomy that is used by content publishers to organize their content in a consistent way. In this post we show you how to classify text and image content into IAB categories without any labeled data.

Posted Jul 2022

A Quick Look at Text Search Functions

See some of the creative ways to add smarts to your application with Text Search

Posted May 2022

Custom AI-Assisted Content Moderation

Online communities need content moderation to thrive, but the diversity of the internet is not fully served by general purpose content moderation APIs. We lay out the need for custom AI-assisted content moderation, look at what such a moderation pipeline would look like, and show how Nyckel makes it significantly easier to build such a pipeline.

Posted Apr 2022

Introducing Nyckel Image Search Functions

Nyckel Image Search functions enable cross-modal semantic search of images and text using the latest Deep Learning technology. Get started with a few simple API commands.

Posted Apr 2022

ML is Just a Developer Tool

Even with massive advances, Machine Learning should still be considered one tool of many in a developers' toolchain; not a panacea.

Posted Apr 2022

Machine Learning on Tabular Data with Nyckel

Nyckel releases a new feature to create Machine Learning models for tabular data in minutes.

Posted Jan 2022

Nyckel Accepted to Y Combinator (W22)

Nyckel has been accepted to Y Combinator batch of Winter 2022!

Posted Jan 2022

Machine Learning is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers

Machine Learning has made huge strides in the last few decades, but it remains largely inaccessible to the average developer. This post examines some of the reasons why.

Posted Jan 2022

A top 3% score in the Kaggle Titanic Challenge using Transformers

In this post we show how to make a top 3% submission on the Kaggle Titanic Challenge using Transformers

Posted Oct 2021

Local Development and Validation of Nuget Packages

Learnings from setting up a local development workflow for developing and validating nuget packages

Posted Oct 2021

AutoML benchmark: Nyckel vs Google vs Huggingface

A comparison of accuracy, training times, and invoke latencies for three major AutoML engines

Posted Jun 2021

AutoML Comment Moderation in a Rails App

Using machine learning to help curate user content

Posted May 2021

Add Image Classification Using Machine Learning to a Web App With a Single Line of Code

Inspired by a scene from HBO's Silicon Valley, I decided to build a website that identifies whether a photo is of a hot dog.

Posted Apr 2021

How to Add Custom Image Classification To Your Application Using Machine Learning (The Easy Way!)

It’s often valuable to be able to programmatically classify an image into a category. This post explains how you can use Nyckel to do that in minutes.

Posted Apr 2021

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