​UberAI introduces a new approach for making Neural Networks process images faster & more accurately with jpeg representations.

Link: https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-jpeg/
Paper: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7649-faster-neural-networks-straight-from-jpeg

#nn #CV #Uber

🔗 Faster Neural Networks Straight from JPEG
Uber AI Labs introduces a method for making neural networks that process images faster and more accurately by leveraging JPEG representations.

​Scaling Uber’s Apache Hadoop Distributed File System for Growth

Post on how #Uber team handles #Hadoop challenges.

https://eng.uber.com/scaling-hdfs/

#BigData #HDFS

🔗 Scaling Uber’s Hadoop Distributed File System for Growth
Uber's Data Infrastructure team overhauled our approach to scaling our storage infrastructure by incorporating several new features and functionalities, including ViewFs, NameNode garbage collection tuning, and an HDFS load management service.

​POET: Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environments and their Solutions through the Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer

POET: it generates its own increasingly complex, diverse training environments & solves them. It automatically creates a learning curricula & training data, & potentially innovates endlessly.

Link: https://eng.uber.com/poet-open-ended-deep-learning/

#RL #Uber

🔗 POET: Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environments and their Solutions through the Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer
Uber AI Labs introduces the Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer (POET), an algorithm that leverages open-endedness to push the bounds of ML.

​How Uber predicts prices

Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction at Uber

Link: https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks-uncertainty-estimation/

#RNN #LSTM #Uber

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