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Facebook Releases AI Code Search Datasets
Facebook AI released a dataset containing coding questions paired with code-snippet answers, intended for evaluating AI-based natural-language code search systems. The release also includes benchmark results for several of Facebook's own code-search models and a training corpus of over 4 million Java methods parsed from over 24,000 GitHub repositories.
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Facebook Open-Sources Hydra to Simplify Configuration Management in Python Programs
Facebook Hydra is a new open-source framework aimed to speed up the creation of Python applications by simplifying the implementation of common functionality such as command-line argument handling, configuration management, and logging.
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Facebook Open-Sources RoBERTa: an Improved Natural Language Processing Model
Facebook AI open-sourced a new deep-learning natural-language processing (NLP) model, Robustly-optimized BERT approach (RoBERTa). Based on Google's BERT pre-training model, RoBERTa includes additional pre-training improvements that achieve state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks, using only unlabeled text from the world-wide web, with minimal fine-tuning and no data augmentation.
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Facebook, Microsoft, and Partners Announce Deepfake Detection Challenge
Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI, and researchers from several universities have created the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DDC), a contest to produce AI that can detect misleading images and video that have been created by AI. The challenge includes several grants and awards for the teams that create the best AI solution, using the DDC's dataset of real and fake videos.
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Facebook Proposes New IsInputPending API for Faster Input Event Processing
Facebook recently announced its first major browser API contribution. The new isInputPending API aims to shorten the time between a user input and its processing by the browser, and to increase the user experience of highly interactive applications.
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Twitter Open Sources Its Telemetry Tool Rezolus for Detection of Short-Lived Anomalies
Twitter Engineering open sourced their telemetry tool called Rezolus, which can detect anomalies in system performance metrics by sampling them at a higher rate.
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Facebook and University Researchers Developing Mind-Reading System
As part of a Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) brain-computer interface (BCI) research program called Project Steno, a team of scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) described their work on converting brain waves into a text transcription of speech. The goal of Facebook's project is a device that allows users to "type" by imagining themselves speaking.
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The First AI to Beat Pros in 6-Player Poker, Developed by Facebook and Carnegie Mellon
Facebook AI Research’s Noam Brown and Carnegie Mellon’s professor Tuomas Sandholm recently announced Pluribus, the first Artificial Intelligence program able to beat humans in 6 player hold-em poker. In the past years, computers have progressively improved, beating humans in checkers, chess, Go, and the Jeopardy TV show. Poker poses more challenges around information asymmetry and bluffing.
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Facebook Open-Sources Deep-Learning Recommendation Model DLRM
Facebook AI Research announced the open-source release of a deep-learning recommendation model, DLRM, that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in generating personalized recommendations. The code is available on GitHub, and includes versions for the PyTorch and Caffe2 frameworks.
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Moving Embodied AI forward, Facebook Open-Sources AI Habitat
In a recent blog post, Facebook has announced they have open-sourced AI Habitat, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulation platform that is designed to train embodied agents, such as virtual robots. Using this technology, robots can learn how to grab an object from an adjacent room or assist a visually-impaired person in navigating an unfamiliar transit system.
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Sign In with Apple Touts Single Sign-On without Sharing Your Data
At the recent WWDC 2019, Apple announced its own Single Sign-On (SS) service, dubbed Sign in with Apple. Deemed "Apple's most significant new innovation" by Time, Sign in with Apple promises not to share any personal user data, including email addresses.
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Teaching Machines to Understand Emotions with Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis teaches computers to recognise the human emotions present in text. The fundamental trade-off in sentiment analysis is between simplicity and accuracy. Approaches vary from using a list of words associated with emotions, to deep learning with techniques like word embeddings, neural networks and attention mechanisms.
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PyTorch 1.1 Release Improves Performance, Adds New APIs and Tools
Facebook AI Research announced the release of PyTorch 1.1. The latest version of the open-source deep learning framework includes improved performance via distributed training, new APIs, and new visualization tools including native support for TensorBoard.
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Partly Cloudy, Twitter Embarks on Their Cloud Journey
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced the start of their journey, a project known internally as "Partly Cloudy", to the public cloud. The post outlines some of the constraints that have prevented them from doing so in the past and describes why now is a good time to embark on this transformation.
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Facebook Open-Sources PyTorch-BigGraph Embedding Framework
Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph, a distributed system that can learn embeddings for graphs with billions of nodes.