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Apple Acquires Edge-Focused AI Startup Xnor.ai
Apple has acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle-based startup that builds AI models that run on edge devices, for approximately $200 million.
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Uber's Synthetic Training Data Speeds Up Deep Learning by 9x
Uber AI Labs has developed an algorithm called Generative Teaching Networks (GTN) that produces synthetic training data for neural networks which allows the networks to be trained faster than when using real data. Using this synthetic data, Uber sped up its neural architecture search (NAS) deep-learning optimization process by 9x.
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Stanford Researchers Publish AI Index 2019 Report
The Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute published its AI Index 2019 Report. The 2019 report tracks three times the number of datasets as the previous year's report, and contains nearly 300 pages of data and graphs related to several aspects of AI, including research, technical performance, education, and societal considerations.
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Deep Java Library: New Deep Learning Toolkit for Java Developers
Amazon released Deep Java Library (DJL), an open-source library with Java APIs to simplify training, testing, deploying, and making predictions with deep-learning models. DJL is framework agnostic; it abstracts away commonly used deep-learning functions, using Java Native Access (JNA) on top of existing deep-learning frameworks, currently providing implementations for Apache MXNet and TensorFlow.
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Google Open-Sources ALBERT Natural Language Model
Google AI has open-source A Lite Bert (ALBERT), a deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model, which uses 89% fewer parameters than the state-of-the-art BERT model, with little loss of accuracy. The model can also be scaled-up to achieve new state-of-the-art performance on NLP benchmarks.
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Uber Open-Sources Plug-and-Play Language Model for Controlling AI-Generated Text
Uber AI open-sourced the plug-and-play language model (PPLM) which can control the topic and sentiment of AI-generated text. The model's output is evaluated by human judges as achieving 36% better topic accuracy compared to the baseline GPT-2 model.
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Amazon Releases SageMaker Studio IDE for Machine Learning
At the recent re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon SageMaker Studio, an integrated development enviornment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that brings code editing, training job tracking and tuning, and debugging all into a single web-based interface.
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TensorFlow 2.1.0 Will Be the Last Version to Support Python 2
The TensorFlow project announced a release candidate for version 2.1.0. In addition to several improvements and bug fixes, this release will be the last version of the deep-learning framework to support Python 2.
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Google Introduces New Metrics for AI-Generated Audio and Video Quality
Google AI researchers published two new metrics for measuring the quality of audio and video generated by deep-learning networks, the Fréchet Audio Distance (FAD) and Fréchet Video Distance (FVD). The metrics have been shown to have a high correlation with human evaluations of quality.
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Microsoft Releases DialogGPT AI Conversation Model
Microsoft Research's Natural Language Processing Group released dialogue generative pre-trained transformer (DialoGPT), a pre-trained deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model for automatic conversation response generation. The model was trained on over 147M dialogues and achieves state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks.
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Machine Learning on Mobile and Edge Devices with TensorFlow Lite: Daniel Situnayake at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Daniel Situnayake presented "Machine learning on mobile and edge devices with TensorFlow Lite". TensorFlow Lite is a production-ready, cross-platform framework for deploying ML on mobile devices and embedded systems, and was the main topic of the presentation.
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Deep-Learning Framework SINGA Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) recently announced that SINGA, a framework for distributed deep-learning, has graduated to top-level project (TLP) status, signifying the project's maturity and stability. SINGA has already been adopted by companies in several sectors, including banking and healthcare.
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PyTorch 1.3 Release Adds Support for Mobile, Privacy, and Transparency
Facebook recently announced the release of PyTorch 1.3. The latest version of the open-source deep learning framework includes new tools for mobile, quantization, privacy, and transparency.
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Google Applies NLP Algorithm BERT to Search
BERT, Google's latest NLP algorithm, will power Google search and make it better at understanding user queries in a way more similar to how humans would understand them, writes Pandu Nayak, Google fellow and vice president for Search, with one in 10 queries providing a different set of results.
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Alexa Research Paper Shows Genetic Algorithms Offer Best Solution for Neural Network Optimization
Amazon's Alexa Science researchers published a paper providing a theoretical basis for neural network optimization. While showing that it is computationally intractable to find a perfect solution, the paper does provide a formulation, the Approximate Architecture Search Problem (a-ASP), that can be solved with genetic algorithms.