Archai can design your neural network with state-of-the-art neural architecture search (NAS)
| Shital Shah and Debadeepta Dey
The goal of neural architecture search (NAS) (opens in new tab) is to have computers automatically search for the best-performing neural networks. Recent advances in NAS methods have made it possible to build problem-specific networks that are faster, more compact,…
Awards | Muse: Multi-query Event Trend Aggregation
Best short paper award in CIKM’20
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How Capio is using interoperability and conversational intelligence to transform healthcare
“Our doctors and staff were running faster and faster. Like mice on a wheel trying to keep up,” recalls Niklas Sundler, Technology Innovation Director at Ramsay Santé and Capio, as he explains how COVID-19 changed the rules of healthcare delivery…
While technology has helped fill in the gaps that remote work and distance learning have created, humans still crave face-to-face interactions, just like their ancient ancestors. Informed by his time studying and observing primates, our author wonders when, and if,…
CodeXGLUE: A benchmark dataset and open challenge for code intelligence
According to Evans Data Corporation (opens in new tab), there are 23.9 million professional developers in 2019, and the population is expected to reach 28.7 million in 2024. With the growing population of developers, code intelligence, which aims to leverage…
代码智能新基准数据集CodeXGLUE来袭，多角度衡量模型优劣
编者按：代码智能（code intelligence）目的是让计算机具备理解和生成代码的能力，并利用编程语言知识和上下文进行推理，支持代码检索、补全、翻译、纠错、问答等场景。以深度学习为代表的人工智能算法，近年来在理解自然语言上取得了飞跃式的突破，代码智能也因此获得了越来越多的关注。该领域一旦有突破，将大幅度推动 AI 在软件开发场景的落地。 一直以来，微软秉承为开发者赋能的使命。在2020年 B...
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Accelerating genomics workflows and data analysis on Azure
Genomics is foundational to the development of targeted therapeutics and precision medicine. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies has driven a revolution in genomics-based research and is helping facilitate better understanding of human biology and disease conditions. This expanded knowledge is…
Measuring dataset similarity using optimal transport
| David Alvarez-Melis and Nicolo Fusi
Is FashionMNIST, a dataset of images of clothing items labeled by category, more similar to MNIST or to USPS, both of which are classification datasets of handwritten digits? This is a pretty hard question to answer, but the solution could…
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Microsoft shows off holographic storage device
Early research on what could one day live in the cloud Microsoft has announced Project HSD, an effort to build holographic storage devices for its Azure cloud service. While the idea of storing data throughout the volume of the medium…