DivergentNets: Medical Image Segmentation by Network Ensemble
In this paper, the team of researchers explore new methods of detection of colon polyps with machine learning. They propose DivergentNets, an ensemble of such well-known segmentation models as UNet++, FPN, DeepLabv3, and DeepLabv3+, to produce more generalizable medical image segmentation masks.
Paper — https://bit.ly/3jMNG6M
Code — https://bit.ly/3xqB21i
In this paper, the team of researchers explore new methods of detection of colon polyps with machine learning. They propose DivergentNets, an ensemble of such well-known segmentation models as UNet++, FPN, DeepLabv3, and DeepLabv3+, to produce more generalizable medical image segmentation masks.
Paper — https://bit.ly/3jMNG6M
Code — https://bit.ly/3xqB21i
Continuously Improving Recommender Systems for Competitive Advantage Using NVIDIA Merlin and MLOps
In this article, you’ll explore how to use NVIDIA Merlin, an application framework that accelerates all phases of recommender system development on NVIDIA GPUs, to implement a complete MLOps pipeline.
https://bit.ly/2Uonwwy
In this article, you’ll explore how to use NVIDIA Merlin, an application framework that accelerates all phases of recommender system development on NVIDIA GPUs, to implement a complete MLOps pipeline.
https://bit.ly/2Uonwwy
NVIDIA Developer Blog
Continuously Improving Recommender Systems for Competitive Advantage Using NVIDIA Merlin and MLOps | NVIDIA Developer Blog
This posts shares how NVIDIA Merlin components fit into a complete MLOps pipeline to operationalize a recommendation system, and continuously deliver improvements in production.
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Last week, we rebranded and restarted our digest. What does it mean, exactly?
For you, it means that you’re going to get updated about all things happening in the AI world on a new level. We’re hyped and ready to give you more and be there for you when you need guidance. Our weekly newsletter will be sent out as usual every Thursday (so no worries), but we’d also love to coop more with the community. We’ve planned tons of new activities for you, so make sure that you follow us on social media — and be ready to get energized!
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For you, it means that you’re going to get updated about all things happening in the AI world on a new level. We’re hyped and ready to give you more and be there for you when you need guidance. Our weekly newsletter will be sent out as usual every Thursday (so no worries), but we’d also love to coop more with the community. We’ve planned tons of new activities for you, so make sure that you follow us on social media — and be ready to get energized!
https://bit.ly/2VjWN4O
As a beginner, the first who you should know about is Geoffrey Hinton. He's a computer scientist and his biggest achievement is work on artificial neural networks. Hinton is famous as one of the most important figures in the deep learning community. Hinton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1998. Additionally he was the first winner of the Rumelhart Prize in 2001. The fame of the AlexNet came when he in collaboration with his students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever designed for the ImageNet challenge 2012. This event was a breakthrough in the field of computer vision.
Geoffrey Hinton was one of the researchers who introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, time-delay neural nets, mixtures of experts, variational learning and deep learning. His research group in Toronto made major breakthroughs in deep learning that revolutionized speech recognition and object classification.
https://bit.ly/3AKwl4r
Geoffrey Hinton was one of the researchers who introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, time-delay neural nets, mixtures of experts, variational learning and deep learning. His research group in Toronto made major breakthroughs in deep learning that revolutionized speech recognition and object classification.
https://bit.ly/3AKwl4r
Are you tired of lockdowns? We for sure are!
We at Data Phoenix, together with Autodoc and VITech, are excited to invite you to an offline meetup of Odesa’s Open Data Science community that’s going to take place June 14, 6:30 PM — 9 PM. We’ll cover such topics as data management, object detection, and more. Most importantly, though, we’re going to network for real — that’s what we’ve been missing all these long quarantine months, right?
Because the number of seats is limited, we’re going to have an online session as well. The talks will be in Russian.
The event is free, but registration is required. So kindly register right away!👇🏻
https://bit.ly/3hVZCkb
#meetup #DataScience #DataManagement #ObjectDetection
We at Data Phoenix, together with Autodoc and VITech, are excited to invite you to an offline meetup of Odesa’s Open Data Science community that’s going to take place June 14, 6:30 PM — 9 PM. We’ll cover such topics as data management, object detection, and more. Most importantly, though, we’re going to network for real — that’s what we’ve been missing all these long quarantine months, right?
Because the number of seats is limited, we’re going to have an online session as well. The talks will be in Russian.
The event is free, but registration is required. So kindly register right away!👇🏻
https://bit.ly/3hVZCkb
#meetup #DataScience #DataManagement #ObjectDetection
To get a better idea about how the industry works, sometimes it makes sense to watch a movie, just to get inspired by the power of talent and knowledge. Our team has prepared a few movies like that to demonstrate how machine learning can be depicted in a work of art.
Blade Runner 2049
One of the most impactful and in-depth storylines about smart machines. Blade Runner 2049 is a movie made for today’s machine learning age. In it, the replicants are “strong AI” — artificial general intelligence (AGI) that enables a machine to carry out any human task and even undertake advanced decisions on its own. Strong AI means replicants are stronger than humans in every respect and can even experience real emotions. However, the movie also deals with questions of soulless robots having consciousness and whether AI-powered intelligence means real consciousness.
https://bit.ly/36qO03d
Comment your favorite AI movie!👇🏻
Blade Runner 2049
One of the most impactful and in-depth storylines about smart machines. Blade Runner 2049 is a movie made for today’s machine learning age. In it, the replicants are “strong AI” — artificial general intelligence (AGI) that enables a machine to carry out any human task and even undertake advanced decisions on its own. Strong AI means replicants are stronger than humans in every respect and can even experience real emotions. However, the movie also deals with questions of soulless robots having consciousness and whether AI-powered intelligence means real consciousness.
https://bit.ly/36qO03d
Comment your favorite AI movie!👇🏻
4 steps to get a successful AI project
1. Prioritize engineering over data science
As a rule of thumb, engineers can pick up data science skills faster than data scientists can pick up engineering skills. If you have any doubts about that, just work with any Python engineer with 5+ years of experience and passion for AI, rather than the PhD in data science having their first go at building business applications.
2. Go lean
It’s important to minimize risks early on. Structure your project around specific milestones. Make the team focused on launching «live» solutions (i.e. a pilot) in one to three months. When in production, decide whether further development will be worth it.
3. The algorithm doesn’t matter, data does
The algorithm is the least important part of your AI solution. Just choose an algorithm that works. Endlessly upgrading the algorithm is tempting, but it will probably not give you the results you expect. Focus on cleaning your data instead.
4. Communicate
Once the engineering team starts building, they have to make a lot of choices. The better they know your priorities, the more right decisions they can make.
Was it helpful? Let us know!
https://bit.ly/3r0iNxc
1. Prioritize engineering over data science
As a rule of thumb, engineers can pick up data science skills faster than data scientists can pick up engineering skills. If you have any doubts about that, just work with any Python engineer with 5+ years of experience and passion for AI, rather than the PhD in data science having their first go at building business applications.
2. Go lean
It’s important to minimize risks early on. Structure your project around specific milestones. Make the team focused on launching «live» solutions (i.e. a pilot) in one to three months. When in production, decide whether further development will be worth it.
3. The algorithm doesn’t matter, data does
The algorithm is the least important part of your AI solution. Just choose an algorithm that works. Endlessly upgrading the algorithm is tempting, but it will probably not give you the results you expect. Focus on cleaning your data instead.
4. Communicate
Once the engineering team starts building, they have to make a lot of choices. The better they know your priorities, the more right decisions they can make.
Was it helpful? Let us know!
https://bit.ly/3r0iNxc
Happy Monday everyone! Here’s a quick reminder about our meetup this Wednesday.
We at Data Phoenix, together with Autodoc and VITech, are excited to invite you to an offline meetup of Odesa’s Open Data Science community that’s going to take place July 14, 6:30 PM — 9 PM. We’ll cover such topics as data management, object detection, and more. Most importantly, though, we’re going to network for real — that’s what we’ve been missing all these long quarantine months, right?
Because the number of seats is limited, we’re going to have an online session as well. The talks will be in Russian.
The event is free, but registration is required. So kindly register right away!👇🏻
https://bit.ly/3hy0nRB
We at Data Phoenix, together with Autodoc and VITech, are excited to invite you to an offline meetup of Odesa’s Open Data Science community that’s going to take place July 14, 6:30 PM — 9 PM. We’ll cover such topics as data management, object detection, and more. Most importantly, though, we’re going to network for real — that’s what we’ve been missing all these long quarantine months, right?
Because the number of seats is limited, we’re going to have an online session as well. The talks will be in Russian.
The event is free, but registration is required. So kindly register right away!👇🏻
https://bit.ly/3hy0nRB
Catalyst.Neuro: A 3D Brain Segmentation Pipeline for MRI
In this article, you’ll learn about Catalyst.Neuro, an advanced brain segmentation pipeline, about its fundamental concepts implemented and different deep learning models to perform and complete brain segmentation tasks.
https://bit.ly/3ATuBpO
In this article, you’ll learn about Catalyst.Neuro, an advanced brain segmentation pipeline, about its fundamental concepts implemented and different deep learning models to perform and complete brain segmentation tasks.
https://bit.ly/3ATuBpO
Medium
Catalyst.Neuro: A 3D Brain Segmentation Pipeline for MRI
In this post, we will go through a neuroimaging project Catalyst.Neuro and compare deep learning models on brain segmentation task.
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Effortless Distributed Training of Ultra-Wide GCNs
Graph independent subnetwork training (GIST) is a distributed training framework for large-scale graph convolutional networks (GCNs). It massively accelerates the training of GCNs for any architecture and can be used to enable training of large-scale models.
https://bit.ly/3k8CCRG
Graph independent subnetwork training (GIST) is a distributed training framework for large-scale graph convolutional networks (GCNs). It massively accelerates the training of GCNs for any architecture and can be used to enable training of large-scale models.
https://bit.ly/3k8CCRG
Medium
Effortless Distributed Training of Ultra-Wide GCNs
An overview of GIST, a novel distributed training framework for large-scale GCNs.
TOP-5 tips for successful career in AI
Tip 1: Educational Requirements
According to teach.com, to start in the artificial intelligence field you’ll typically need a bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, statistics, data science or a related field. For more advanced work, a master’s or PhD in one of these disciplines may be required.
Having strong STEM skills, including competency in statistics and mathematics, could also be beneficial in an AI engineer career.
Tip 2: Boost Up Your Skills
Beyond education requirements, the following are skills that are important for success:
Critical thinking and collaborative skills: A big part of your AI role will involve using data as a problem solving tool. This will require good communication and teamwork skills to effectively report and explain any insights found in data.
Analytical skills: Successful AI engineers are good with numbers. This requires an ability to think analytically, on the one hand, and to successfully communicate your thoughts and ideas to stakeholders, on the other.
Being business savvy: The ability to connect the dots between the practical world of business (use cases) and the specifics of the ML model (and data required in it) can be helpful to any AI engineer.
Tip 3: Learn Programming Languages
An AI professional should also demonstrate programming language proficiency in one or more of these common computer languages: Python, R, Java, C++
Tip 4: Keep Track of Tools and Frameworks
If you are interested in building up your career in artificial intelligence or you are searching for an artificial intelligence job, then you should know which framework or tool will make your code easy to implement.
Tip 5: Develop Your Own AI Project
You can develop a small project, or you can develop an ongoing project on GitHub. By developing an artificial intelligence project, you can check and test your own abilities.
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Tip 1: Educational Requirements
According to teach.com, to start in the artificial intelligence field you’ll typically need a bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, statistics, data science or a related field. For more advanced work, a master’s or PhD in one of these disciplines may be required.
Having strong STEM skills, including competency in statistics and mathematics, could also be beneficial in an AI engineer career.
Tip 2: Boost Up Your Skills
Beyond education requirements, the following are skills that are important for success:
Critical thinking and collaborative skills: A big part of your AI role will involve using data as a problem solving tool. This will require good communication and teamwork skills to effectively report and explain any insights found in data.
Analytical skills: Successful AI engineers are good with numbers. This requires an ability to think analytically, on the one hand, and to successfully communicate your thoughts and ideas to stakeholders, on the other.
Being business savvy: The ability to connect the dots between the practical world of business (use cases) and the specifics of the ML model (and data required in it) can be helpful to any AI engineer.
Tip 3: Learn Programming Languages
An AI professional should also demonstrate programming language proficiency in one or more of these common computer languages: Python, R, Java, C++
Tip 4: Keep Track of Tools and Frameworks
If you are interested in building up your career in artificial intelligence or you are searching for an artificial intelligence job, then you should know which framework or tool will make your code easy to implement.
Tip 5: Develop Your Own AI Project
You can develop a small project, or you can develop an ongoing project on GitHub. By developing an artificial intelligence project, you can check and test your own abilities.
Was it helpful? Let us know👇🏻
Reverse Engineering Generative Models from a Single Deepfake Image
Facebook AI in partnership with Michigan State University (MSU) presents a new method of detecting and attributing deepfakes. It relies on reverse engineering from a single AI-generated image to the generative model used to produce it.
https://bit.ly/3ko4xwS
Facebook AI in partnership with Michigan State University (MSU) presents a new method of detecting and attributing deepfakes. It relies on reverse engineering from a single AI-generated image to the generative model used to produce it.
https://bit.ly/3ko4xwS
Facebook
Reverse engineering generative models from a single deepfake image
Our AI researchers have partnered with @MichiganStateU to develop a method for reverse engineering deepfakes to detect what model they came from and whether multiple deepfakes are potentially coming from the same model.
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ClawCraneNet: Leveraging Object-level Relation for Text-based Video Segmentation
In this paper, Chen Liang et al. introduce a novel approach of imitating how humans segment an object with the language guidance. Extensive experiments on A2D Sentences and J-HMDB Sentences show that the method outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Qualitative results also show that the team’s results are more explainable.
https://bit.ly/2VJ8v9k
In this paper, Chen Liang et al. introduce a novel approach of imitating how humans segment an object with the language guidance. Extensive experiments on A2D Sentences and J-HMDB Sentences show that the method outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Qualitative results also show that the team’s results are more explainable.
https://bit.ly/2VJ8v9k
Hello there! We’d like to ask you guys what kind of tools you usually use for work? We’ll discuss the most voted tool next week. Comment down below 👇🏻
Graph Transformer Networks: Learning Meta-path Graphs to Improve GNNs
In this paper, you’ll learn about Graph Transformer Networks (GTNs) capable of generating new graph structures, which preclude noisy connections and include useful connections for tasks, while learning effective node representations on the new graphs in an end-to-end fashion. Compared to GTNs, FastGTNs are 230x faster and use 100x less memory while allowing the identical graph transformations as GTNs.
https://bit.ly/3BbgLis
In this paper, you’ll learn about Graph Transformer Networks (GTNs) capable of generating new graph structures, which preclude noisy connections and include useful connections for tasks, while learning effective node representations on the new graphs in an end-to-end fashion. Compared to GTNs, FastGTNs are 230x faster and use 100x less memory while allowing the identical graph transformations as GTNs.
https://bit.ly/3BbgLis
What to read?🤔
Here is an Amazon bestseller that we recommend reading if you haven’t yet, of course!
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.
For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.
What is your favorite book?
https://bit.ly/3kmcYsN
Here is an Amazon bestseller that we recommend reading if you haven’t yet, of course!
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.
For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.
What is your favorite book?
https://bit.ly/3kmcYsN
Here’s a report from our last ODS.ai 👇🏻
https://bit.ly/3ijEIvB
There you can see the whole video from event (in case if you missed it), presentations and of course cool photos 😉
Data Phoenix team appreciates everyone who was there and shared their own experience! We missed offline conversations, real meetings and real people.
For the future events, if you want to be a part of it, as a speaker, contact us 👉🏻events@dataphoenix.info
Let’s create something cool together and we hope to see you again really soon!
https://bit.ly/3wWjRUt
https://bit.ly/3ijEIvB
There you can see the whole video from event (in case if you missed it), presentations and of course cool photos 😉
Data Phoenix team appreciates everyone who was there and shared their own experience! We missed offline conversations, real meetings and real people.
For the future events, if you want to be a part of it, as a speaker, contact us 👉🏻events@dataphoenix.info
Let’s create something cool together and we hope to see you again really soon!
https://bit.ly/3wWjRUt