How AI Training Scales
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Horizon: Facebook’s Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform
In this paper we present Horizon, Facebook’s open source applied reinforcement learning (RL) platform. Horizon is an end-to-end platform designed to solve industry applied RL...
Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing
Protecting data is the number one consideration when running workloads in the cloud. While cloud infrastructures offer numerous security controls, some enterprises want additional verifiable isolation for their most sensitive workloads—capabilities which have become known as confidential computing. Today we’re excited…
Spinning Up in Deep RL
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Thoughts On Machine Learning Accuracy
This blog shares some brief thoughts on machine learning accuracy and bias. Let’s start with some comments about a recent ACLU blog in which they ran a facial recognition trial. Using Rekognition, the ACLU built a face database using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos and then performed facial similarity searches…
An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
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Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (2015)
Erica Greene describes the tool that she built to extract structured data from recipes.
Learning Concepts with Energy Functions
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Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards
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Accelerated “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” in CUDA
Recent announcements of NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs, RTX technology, and Microsoft’s DirectX Ray Tracing have spurred a renewed interest in ray tracing. Using these technologies vastly simplifies the…
Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google ResearchImage classification technology has shown remarkable improvement over ...
Gym Retro
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Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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...
Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware
In recent years, compute-intensive artificial intelligence tasks have prompted creation of a wide variety of custom hardware to run these powerful new systems efficiently. Deep learning models, suc…
Learning ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ from a single demonstration
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iOS 12 Core ML Benchmarks
With the A11 Bionic’s Neural Engine in last year’s iPhone X, Apple introduced its first chip for hardware-accelerated AI. This year, Apple promised huge performance increases to Core ML in their iOS 12 update. They claim models run 9X faster… Continue reading iOS 12 Core ML Benchmarks