It is no secret that the first ML projects at a company tend to fail, or deliver sub-standard results. What is less commonly known is that AI work tends not to follow the trend of scalability. …

Authors: the CASL Project Team Forte introduces “DataPack”, a standardized data structure for unstructured data, distilling good software engineering practices such as reusability, extensibility, and flexibility into PyTorch-based ML solutions. Visit Forte at: Github: https://github.com/asyml/forte Documentation: https://asyml-forte.readthedocs.io/en/latest Technical Report: https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.26/

As AI has become increasingly important to virtually every aspect of business operations, companies across industries are scaling up their AI investments by growing AI teams, expanding AI use cases, and putting more AI models into production. However, scaling AI businesses is easier said than done. As AI businesses scale…

Authors: CASL Project Team — Welcome back to our blog series on building your own Question Answering system! In the previous two posts, we walked our readers through implementing Question Understanding and Document Retrieval — two out of three essential steps of a Q&A system — step-by-step using Forte. …

Authors: The CASL Team — Welcome back to our blog post series of building your own Question and Answering system! In the last post (Building a Question Answering System Part 1: Query Understanding in 18 lines of Code), we introduced how to implement Question Understanding — — the first step of a Q&A system in…

Authors: Petuum CASL Team We are excited to launch our newest open source offering, Tuun! What is Tuun? Tuun lets you build AutoML and meta-learning techniques into your Machine Learning pipelines to boost task performance and accuracy. Our initial release supports black-box tuning, hyperparameter optimization, data augmentation, and zeroth order optimization, with Neural…

Authors: The CASL Team — Welcome to the first part of our blog series, where we’ll show how you can build end-to-end AI applications quickly and with less fuss using Forte. Part 2 in the series — Building a Question Answering System Part 2: Document Retrieval — is now available. In this post, we will…

Authors: Petuum CASL Team Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning models improve in accuracy and generalizability when trained with more data. …

nVidia GTC and PyTorch Ecosystem Day are just around the corner, and we’ll be presenting our latest open-source developments and real-world use cases! We have 6 events lined up across 3 venues, covering our latest tools for building Natural Language Processing pipelines, ways to conduct Learning training faster and cheaper…