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Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages
To accelerate the transfer of natural language processing (NLP) applications to many more languages, we have significantly expanded and enhanced our LASER (Language-Agnostic SEntence Representation…
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More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind
I had an opportunity to sit in on a lecture today by two experts on Machine Learning from Amazon, during a lecture at UNC. Ed Banti is Director of Software Development, Core AI Amazon, and Pat Bajari, was VP and Chief Economist, Core AI, at Amazon as well. Both gentlemen shared their insights on working with AI…
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New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else
To those seeking true intelligence, autonomy, and control among machines, the domain of analog computing, not digital computing, is the place to look.
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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
WHAT THE RESEARCH IS: A new fully convolutional approach to automatic speech recognition and wav2letter++, the fastest state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition system available. The approach …
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Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
Most machine learning tasks — from natural language processing to image classification to translation and many others — rely on derivative-free optimization to tune parameters and/or hyperparameter…
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How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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How AI Training Scales
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
TPUs provide a faster and more cost-effective way to train machine learning models. Learn more about the benefits of training models on Cloud TPU Pods.
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Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
Posted by Eric Jang, Software Engineer, Robotics at Google and Coline Devin, Berkeley PhD Student and former Research Intern From a remarkably youn...
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action
In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and…
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Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
Does Google show you different search results based on your personal info, even when signed out and in so-called "incognito" mode? We ran a study to find out.
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Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
Over time, we hope to make Waymo One available to even more members of the public as we add vehicles and drive in more places.
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Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
Since we originally proposed the need for a first-class language, compiler and ecosystem for machine learning (ML), there have been plenty of interesting developments in the field. Not only have the tradeoffs in existing systems, such as TensorFlow and PyTo...
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Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings
The typical audio environment for HomePod has many challenges — echo, reverberation, and noise. Unlike Siri on iPhone, which operates close…
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PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine
The engine has been upgraded to provide industrial grade simulation quality at game simulation performance. In addition, the PhysX SDK has gone open source! It is available under the simple 3-Clause…
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Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones
Posted by Rahul Garg, Research Scientist and Neal Wadhwa, Software Engineer Portrait Mode on the Pixel smartphones lets you take professional-looki...
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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
Today, I’m excited to share that, for the first time, the same machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now available to all developers through AWS. We’ve been using machine learning across Amazon for more than 20 years. With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company…
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Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning
This SEI Blog post explores the differences between statistics and machine learning and how to translate statistical models into machine learning models.
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Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones
Posted by Marc Levoy, Distinguished Engineer and Yael Pritch, Staff Software Engineer Night Sight is a new feature of the Pixel Camera app that let...
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Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning
Imagine waiting for your flight at the airport. Suddenly, an important business call with a high profile customer lights up your phone. Tons of background noise clutters up the soundscape around you…