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PyTorch 1.6 Released; Microsoft Takes over Windows Version
PyTorch, Facebook's open-source deep-learning framework, announced the release of version 1.6 which includes new APIs and performance improvements. Along with the release, Microsoft announced it will take over development and maintenance of the Windows version of the framework.
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AWS Releases Amazon Fraud Detector into General Availability
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully-managed service on AWS providing customers with the capability to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse or online payment fraud. The service uses machine learning (ML) and relies on two decades of fraud detection expertise from AWS and Amazon.com.
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Robot Learns to Cook the Perfect Omelette Using Batch Bayesian Optimization
Researchers from the university of Cambridge trained a robot to prepare an omelette and optimized the recipe to produce well-tasting dishes. To find the most objectively best recipe, the researchers turned towards Bayesian optimization techniques. They investigated two methods: sequential Bayesian optimization and batch Bayesian optimization.
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AI Conference Recap: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Others at ACL 2020
At the recent Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), research teams from several tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce presented nearly 200 papers out of a total of 779 on a wide variety of AI topics related to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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Google Open-Sources AI for Mapping Natural Language to Mobile UI Actions
Google has open-sourced their AI model for converting sequences of natural language instructions to actions in a mobile device UI. The model is based on the Transformer deep-learning architecture and achieves 70% accuracy on a new benchmark dataset created for the project.
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Google Announces TensorFlow 2 Support in Object Detection API
Google announced support for TensorFlow 2 (TF2) in the TensorFlow Object Detection (OD) API. The release includes eager-mode compatible binaries, two new network architectures, and pre-trained weights for all supported models.
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Accelerating Machine Learning Lifecycle with a Feature Store
Feature Store is a core part of next generation ML platforms that empowers data scientists to accelerate the delivery of ML applications. Mike Del Balso and Geoff Sims recently spoke at Spark AI Summit 2020 Conference about the feature store driven ML development.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy Release Improves Security and Tooling
Open Robotics has released ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy, the latest version of the robot operating system. The release contains several new features, including security enhancements and improved tooling, with contributions from many industry players including the Eclipse foundation and Amazon Web Services.
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QCon San Francisco Announces 2020 Tracks
The Program Committee behind QCon San Francisco (Nov 16-18), the software conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leads, announced the tracks for the 2020 edition of the conference.
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Microsoft's ZeRO-2 Speeds up AI Training 10x
Microsoft open-sourced Zero Redundancy Optimizer version 2 (ZeRO-2), a distributed deep-learning optimization algorithm that scales super-linearly with cluster size. Using ZeRO-2, Microsoft trained a 100-billion-parameter natural-language processing (NLP) model 10x faster than with previous distributed learning techniques.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning. It provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.
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Databricks Contributes MLflow Machine Learning Platform to The Linux Foundation
Databricks, the company behind big data processing and analytics engine Apache Spark, contributes open source machine learning platform MLflow to The Linux Foundation. The announcement was made at the recent Spark AI Summit 2020 Conference which was held as a global virtual event.
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Spark AI Summit 2020 Highlights: Innovations to Improve Spark 3.0 Performance
At the recent Spark AI Summit 2020, held online for the first time, the highlights of the event were innovations to improve Apache Spark 3.0 performance, including optimizations for Spark SQL, and GPU acceleration.
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MIT and Toyota Release Autonomous Driving Dataset DriveSeg
Toyota's Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) and MIT's AgeLab have released DriveSeg, a dataset for autonomous driving research. DriveSeg contains over 25,000 frames of high-resolution video with each pixel labelled with one of 12 classes of road object. DriveSeg is available free of charge for non-commercial use.