Tag: Deep Learning
Experience in AI: Uber Hires Jan Pedersen
Uber welcomes Jan Pedersen as a Distinguished Scientist to our Uber AI group, where he will bring his extensive experience to our efforts in improving artificial intelligence and machine learning.
NVIDIA: Accelerating Deep Learning with Uber’s Horovod
Horovod, Uber's open source distributed deep learning system, enables NVIDIA to scale model training from one to eight GPUs for their self-driving sensing and perception technologies.
Introducing Petastorm: Uber ATG’s Data Access Library for Deep Learning
Uber's Advanced Technologies Group introduces Petastorm, an open source data access library enabling training and evaluation of deep learning models directly from multi-terabyte datasets in Apache Parquet format.
Scaling Uber’s Customer Support Ticket Assistant (COTA) System with Deep Learning
Uber built the next generation of COTA by leveraging deep learning models, thereby scaling the system to provide more accurate customer support ticket predictions.
An Intriguing Failing of Convolutional Neural Networks and the CoordConv Solution
As powerful and widespread as convolutional neural networks are in deep learning, AI Labs’ latest research reveals both an underappreciated failing and a simple fix.
Transforming Financial Forecasting with Data Science and Machine Learning at Uber
Uber developed its own financial planning software, relying on data science and machine learning, to deliver on-demand forecasting and optimize strategic and operations decisions.
Measuring the Intrinsic Dimension of Objective Landscapes
Curious about what it is like to traverse the high-dimensional loss landscapes of modern neural networks? Check out Uber AI Labs’ latest research on measuring intrinsic dimension to find out.
Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Personal Computer
Applying hardware acceleration to deep neuroevolution in what is now an open source project, Uber AI Labs was able to train a neural network to play Atari in just a few hours on a single personal computer, making this type of research accessible to a far greater number of people.
Differentiable Plasticity: A New Method for Learning to Learn
Differentiable Plasticity is a new machine learning method for training neural networks to change their connection weights adaptively even after training is completed, allowing a form of learning inspired by the lifelong plasticity of biological brains.
Introducing the Uber AI Residency
Interested in accelerating your career by tackling some of Uber’s most challenging AI problems? Apply for the Uber AI Residency, a research fellowship dedicated to fostering the next generation of AI talent.
COTA: Improving Uber Customer Care with NLP & Machine Learning
In this article, Uber Engineering introduces our Customer Obsession Ticket Assistant (COTA), a new tool that puts machine learning and natural language processing models in the service of customer care to help agents deliver improved support experiences.
Year in Review: 2017 Highlights from Uber Open Source
As we approach the New Year, Uber Open Source revisits some of Uber Engineering's most popular projects from 2017.
Uber AI Labs Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming Language
Pyro is an open source probabilistic programming language that unites modern deep learning with Bayesian modeling for a tool-first approach to AI.
Meet Horovod: Uber’s Open Source Distributed Deep Learning Framework for TensorFlow
Uber Engineering introduces Horovod, an open source framework that makes it faster and easier to train deep learning models with TensorFlow.
Meet Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform
Uber Engineering introduces Michelangelo, our machine learning-as-a-service system that enables teams to easily build, deploy, and operate ML solutions at scale.
