Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster
| Saurabh Tiwary and Lidong Zhou
Today, we are excited to announce that with our latest Turing universal language representation model (T-ULRv5), a Microsoft-created model is once again the state of the art and at the top of the Google XTREME public leaderboard (opens in new…
Awards | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
The Max Planck-Humboldt Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recognize Sumit Gulwani
The 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt Medal was awarded to Anastassia Alexandrova from the University of California, Los Angeles, and to Sumit Gulwani from the Microsoft Corporation in Redmond. Gulwani is honored for his significant contributions to software development, for example, automatic…
In the news | Penn State
Male giraffes are more socially connected than females
Although female giraffes have closer “friends” than male giraffes, male giraffes have more “acquaintances” than females, according to a new study by an international team that includes a Penn State biologist. The study demonstrates that giraffes form a complex multilevel…
In the news | Medium
Best Python based AutoML frameworks in 2021
A curated list of popular OpenSource AutoML frameworks. This list includes FLAML, a lightweight Python library that finds accurate machine learning models automatically, efficiently and economically.
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