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Microsoft Open Sources BERT for ONNX Runtime
In December, Microsoft open sourced its ONNX Runtime inference engine. Now, the company says it also open-sourced an optimized version of BERT, a natural language model from Google, for ONNX.
When bias begets bias: A source of negative feedback loops in AI systems
| Lydia T. Liu
Is bias in AI self-reinforcing? Decision-making systems that impact criminal justice, financial institutions, human resources, and many other areas often have bias. This is especially true of algorithmic systems that learn from historical data, which tends to reflect existing societal…
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Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT
Microsoft Research AI today said it plans to open-source an optimized version of Google’s popular BERT natural language model designed to work with the ONNX Runtime inference engine. Microsoft uses to the same model to lower latency for BERT when…
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Summary of JSM 2019 Session on Formal Privacy: Making an Impact at Large Organizations
With the growing amount of data collected every day, data confidentiality is increasingly at risk. Many of the traditional approaches to statistical disclosure control are no longer deemed sufficient to protect the confidentiality of the data. Formal privacy guarantees are…
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Microsoft makes performance, speed optimizations to ONNX machine-learning runtime available to developers
Microsoft is open sourcing and integrating some updates it it has made in deep-learning models used for natural-language processing. On January 21, the company announced it is making available to developers these optimizations by integrating them into the ONNX Runtime.
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Nachi Nagappan to receive 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award
Nachi Nagappan has been selected to receive the 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award for his “outstanding contributions to empirical software engineering and data-driven software development.” The Harlan D. Mills Award recognizes researchers and practitioners who have demonstrated long-standing, sustained, and impactful…
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Microsoft open sources breakthrough optimizations for transformer inference on GPU and CPU
One of the most popular deep learning models used for natural language processing is BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). Due to the significant computation required, inferencing BERT at high scale can be extremely costly and may not even be possible…
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Microsoft Opens Up Rust-Inspired Project Verona Programming Language On GitHub
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Microsoft opens up Rust-inspired Project Verona programming language on GitHub
Microsoft recently created a stir after revealing it was taking some ideas from the popular Rust programming language to create a new language for 'safe infrastructure programming' under the banner Project Verona.