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UCloud Tech
UCloud Tech
Dec 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Train and Deploy a CIFAR‑10 Image Classification Model with UAI Platform

This tutorial walks university students through the complete workflow of using the CIFAR‑10 dataset to train a convolutional neural network for image classification and then deploying the model as an online inference service on the UAI‑Train and UAI‑Inference platforms.

CIFAR-10Deep LearningDocker
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Train and Deploy a CIFAR‑10 Image Classification Model with UAI Platform
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning (DQN) to the 2048 Game: Experiments and Insights

This article details a series of reinforcement‑learning experiments on the 2048 game, from random baselines through DQN implementations, classical value‑iteration methods, network redesigns, and Monte‑Carlo tree search, highlighting challenges such as reward design, over‑estimation, and exploration while achieving scores up to 34 000 and tiles of 2048.

2048AIDQN
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Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning (DQN) to the 2048 Game: Experiments and Insights
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 4, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Joint Optimization of Tree‑based Index and Deep Model (JTM) for Large‑Scale Recommendation

This article presents JTM, a joint optimization framework that simultaneously learns a tree‑based index and a deep scoring model to overcome the limitations of traditional recommendation pipelines, demonstrating significant recall improvements on Amazon Books and Alibaba UserBehavior datasets through hierarchical user interest modeling and efficient tree learning.

Deep Learningjoint optimizationlarge scale
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Joint Optimization of Tree‑based Index and Deep Model (JTM) for Large‑Scale Recommendation
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Nov 26, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Neural News Recommendation with Attentive Multi‑View Learning and Personalized Attention

This article surveys two neural news recommendation approaches—NAML, which uses multi‑view learning to fuse heterogeneous news information, and NPA, which incorporates personalized attention for both words and news items—demonstrating their superior performance over strong baselines on real‑world MSN news data through extensive experiments and visual analyses.

AIDeep LearningRecommendation Systems
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Neural News Recommendation with Attentive Multi‑View Learning and Personalized Attention
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Nov 22, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Analysis of ICCV 2019 Lightweight Face Recognition Challenge Champion Solutions

The ICCV 2019 Lightweight Face Recognition Challenge attracted 292 teams and defined four strict FLOP‑ and size‑limited protocols for image and video recognition, with champions employing near‑30 GFLOP EfficientNet‑style backbones, novel loss functions, frame‑fusion, and knowledge‑distilled VarGNet models to balance accuracy and computational budget.

Computer VisionDeep LearningICCV Challenge
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Analysis of ICCV 2019 Lightweight Face Recognition Challenge Champion Solutions
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Nov 21, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

StarNet: Global Interaction Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

StarNet is a neural network for pedestrian trajectory prediction in large‑scale delivery, using a global dynamic map and a Hub‑Host architecture to model interactions efficiently, reducing complexity from O(N²) to O(N), and achieving higher accuracy with fast inference compared to baseline methods.

Deep LearningLSTMPrediction
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StarNet: Global Interaction Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Nov 21, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Designing and Deploying an NLP Model for Airline Ticket Customer Service

This article describes the end‑to‑end development of a multi‑class NLP system for Ctrip airline ticket customer service, covering problem analysis, data preprocessing, sample balancing, model architecture (TextCNN and Bi‑GRU), training strategies, performance evaluation, and online customization to achieve high accuracy in intent recognition.

Bi-GRUDeep LearningModel Deployment
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Designing and Deploying an NLP Model for Airline Ticket Customer Service
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Nov 20, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How North Korea Built a Homegrown AI Facial‑Recognition Smartphone

North Korea’s newly unveiled “Blue Sky” smartphone incorporates a homegrown AI facial‑recognition system built on CNNs, MTCNN, MobileFaceNets and TensorFlow, showcasing how the isolated nation is advancing edge AI despite operating solely on its internal CentOS‑based intranet.

AIDeep LearningMobile AI
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How North Korea Built a Homegrown AI Facial‑Recognition Smartphone
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 15, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Boosting Online Shopping with AI-Powered 3D Scene Merchandising

This article explores how Alibaba’s 3D scene‑based recommendation system combines computer‑vision, deep‑learning and data‑driven matching algorithms to create immersive, size‑accurate product visualizations that enhance user experience and drive higher click‑through rates in e‑commerce.

3d-visualizationDeep Learninge‑commerce
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Boosting Online Shopping with AI-Powered 3D Scene Merchandising
Amap Tech
Amap Tech
Nov 14, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Technical Evolution of Ground Marking Recognition for High‑Precision Maps

AMap’s ground‑marking recognition has progressed from simple threshold methods to advanced deep‑learning pipelines—including two‑stage R‑FCN, cascade detectors with local regression, corner‑point and segmentation hybrids, and LiDAR‑based 3‑D PointRCNN—achieving over 99 % recall and sub‑5 cm positional accuracy for high‑precision map production.

Computer VisionDeep Learningground marking
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Technical Evolution of Ground Marking Recognition for High‑Precision Maps
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Nov 6, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Technical Overview of JD.com Search and Recommendation Systems for the 11.11 Shopping Festival

The article details JD.com's internally developed distributed search engine and recommendation platform, their new architectures, deep‑learning‑driven ranking and recall models, component‑based deployment, extensive performance testing, and coordinated operations that powered the massive 11.11 shopping event.

Deep LearningOperationsPerformance Testing
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Technical Overview of JD.com Search and Recommendation Systems for the 11.11 Shopping Festival
Baidu App Technology
Baidu App Technology
Oct 30, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Applying Deep Learning and AI on Mobile: Baidu App Cases and Technical Insights

The Baidu App team showcases how deep‑learning and AI can be deployed on mobile through on‑device and server‑side inference—illustrated by plant‑identification, stylized filters, video subject detection, and AR real‑time translation—while addressing model compression, cross‑platform optimization, and offering a practical guide for engineers.

AR TranslationComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Applying Deep Learning and AI on Mobile: Baidu App Cases and Technical Insights
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 24, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Evolution and Engineering Practices of the 360 Display Advertising Recall System

This article details the 360 display advertising system's architecture and the progressive evolution of its recall module, covering business overview, overall pipeline, various recall strategies—including Boolean, vectorized, and deep‑tree approaches—and the performance optimizations applied to meet real‑time constraints.

AdvertisingDeep Learningrecall system
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Evolution and Engineering Practices of the 360 Display Advertising Recall System
Amap Tech
Amap Tech
Oct 23, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

AR Navigation Lane Detection: Methods, Challenges, and Practical Solutions

The article reviews AR navigation lane‑detection, comparing traditional handcrafted visual pipelines with modern deep‑learning segmentation approaches, proposes an efficient multitask network with weight‑allocation and vanishing‑point anchoring, and demonstrates quantized models achieving real‑time, stable performance on low‑power automotive chips while outlining remaining weather, lighting, and road‑condition challenges.

ADASAR navigationComputer Vision
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AR Navigation Lane Detection: Methods, Challenges, and Practical Solutions
Tencent Advertising Technology
Tencent Advertising Technology
Oct 17, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Visual Algorithm Applications in Advertising Scenarios

The talk outlines how Tencent Advertising leverages deep‑learning visual algorithms—including GCN‑based edge refinement, template generation, AutoML‑driven smart review, and a dual‑tower click‑through‑rate model—to automate creative production, improve ad quality, and enhance user experience across creation, review, and playback stages.

AIAdvertisingAutoML
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Visual Algorithm Applications in Advertising Scenarios
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 16, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning Practices for Personalized Recommendation at Meitu: From Recall to Ranking

This article details Meitu's large‑scale personalized recommendation pipeline, describing the business scenario, challenges of massive data, latency and long‑tail distribution, and the application of deep learning techniques such as Item2vec, YouTubeNet, dual‑tower DNN, NFM, NFwFM and multi‑task learning to improve click‑through rate, conversion and user engagement.

Deep LearningRecommendation Systemslarge scale
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Deep Learning Practices for Personalized Recommendation at Meitu: From Recall to Ranking
58 Tech
58 Tech
Oct 14, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Advertisement Image Recognition System for 58.com: Design, Implementation, and Performance

This article describes 58.com’s deep‑learning‑based advertisement image recognition platform, covering its background, system architecture, QR‑code detection, multi‑scale ResNet classification, category fusion, performance metrics, real‑world case studies, and online service statistics.

58.comContent SecurityDeep Learning
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Advertisement Image Recognition System for 58.com: Design, Implementation, and Performance
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 14, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Short Video Recommendation: Multi‑Objective Optimization and Model Enhancements

This article presents a comprehensive overview of short‑video recommendation at UC, covering business background, system architecture, the evolution from LR to Wide & Deep models, multi‑objective loss design with positive‑sample weighting, graph‑embedding fusion, time‑weighted loss, continuity modeling, a Boosting‑based WnD solution, and future research directions.

Deep Learningboostinggraph embedding
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Advances in Short Video Recommendation: Multi‑Objective Optimization and Model Enhancements
58 Tech
58 Tech
Oct 12, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Recruitment Recommendation System: Ranking Framework, Model Evolution, and Feature Engineering

This article details 58.com’s recruitment recommendation platform, describing its personalized matching challenges, typical recommendation scenarios, a three‑stage ranking framework, optimization goals, the evolution from rule‑based methods to logistic regression, factorization machines, XGBoost, and deep learning models, extensive feature engineering practices, and future research directions.

AIDeep Learningfeature engineering
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Recruitment Recommendation System: Ranking Framework, Model Evolution, and Feature Engineering
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Oct 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Iterative Development of Delivery Time Estimation Models: Tree Model, Vector Retrieval, and End‑to‑End Deep Learning

The paper chronicles Meituan’s three‑stage evolution of delivery‑time estimation—from a hierarchical address tree with local linear regression, through a vector‑retrieval system that boosts recall, to a lightweight end‑to‑end deep‑learning model that meets sub‑5 ms latency while delivering progressively lower error and full coverage.

Deep LearningLogisticsPerformance Optimization
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Iterative Development of Delivery Time Estimation Models: Tree Model, Vector Retrieval, and End‑to‑End Deep Learning
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Joint Optimization of Tree-Based Indexes Boosts Large-Scale Recommendation Accuracy

This article introduces JTM, a joint optimization framework that simultaneously learns deep scoring models and tree-structured indexes, addressing the limitations of traditional recommendation pipelines and demonstrating significant precision and recall gains on large-scale datasets such as Amazon Books and UserBehavior.

Deep LearningRecommendation Systemsjoint optimization
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How Joint Optimization of Tree-Based Indexes Boosts Large-Scale Recommendation Accuracy
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Sep 29, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

UC Information Flow Video Tag Recognition: System Architecture and Multi‑Modal Algorithms

This article presents a comprehensive overview of UC's information‑flow video tag recognition technology, detailing tag usage scenarios, the end‑to‑end system architecture, multi‑modal feature extraction, advanced deep‑learning models such as NextVlad, behavior and person tagging methods, and future research directions.

Computer VisionDeep LearningMultimodal Learning
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UC Information Flow Video Tag Recognition: System Architecture and Multi‑Modal Algorithms
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Sep 27, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Applying Deep Learning to Meitu Community Recommendation: Embedding, Recall, and Ranking Models

The talk by Meitu senior algorithm expert Chen Wenqiang details how deep‑learning‑driven embedding, recall, and ranking techniques—including Item2vec, twin‑tower DNNs, and multi‑task NFwFM—are applied to improve click‑through rates, follow conversions, and user engagement in Meitu's content community.

AIDeep LearningRecommendation Systems
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Applying Deep Learning to Meitu Community Recommendation: Embedding, Recall, and Ranking Models
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Sep 26, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Efficient Scene Text Detection Framework with Feature Pyramid and Expanded High-Level Feature Maps

The paper presents an efficient scene‑text detector that expands high‑level SSD feature maps and integrates a feature‑pyramid network, using direction‑aware segment‑and‑link predictions to reconstruct arbitrarily long, rotated text, achieving higher recall and precision with real‑time speed and outperforming recent methods on ICDAR benchmarks and a menu‑recognition test.

Computer VisionDeep LearningICDAR
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Efficient Scene Text Detection Framework with Feature Pyramid and Expanded High-Level Feature Maps
UCloud Tech
UCloud Tech
Sep 24, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Cut GPU Costs by 75%: AI‑Driven Car Fault Detection with UCloud Hot‑Standby

The article explains how the WeiChe app leverages AI to instantly recognize car dashboard warning lights, describes the underlying deep‑learning infrastructure on UCloud’s UAI‑Inference platform, and shows how the Hot‑Standby feature dramatically cuts GPU costs while maintaining real‑time performance.

AICloud InferenceDeep Learning
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Cut GPU Costs by 75%: AI‑Driven Car Fault Detection with UCloud Hot‑Standby
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Sep 12, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning for Automated Module Detection in Taobao 99 Promotion Pages

This study presents a deep‑learning pipeline that employs a Cascade‑RCNN with Feature Pyramid Network to automatically detect and refine modules and their internal elements on Taobao’s 99‑promotion pages, achieving roughly 98 % precision and recall on a thousand‑image validation set and paving the way for broader e‑commerce event applications.

Cascade R-CNNComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Deep Learning for Automated Module Detection in Taobao 99 Promotion Pages
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 12, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How a Simple Learning‑Rate Trick Detects 90% of Noisy Labels in Image Data

Training deep neural networks on large‑scale weakly labeled image data suffers from noisy annotations that degrade performance, but a simple algorithm that adjusts the learning‑rate during training can automatically identify up to 90% of noisy samples, improving dataset cleanliness and model accuracy without manual intervention.

Deep LearningImage Classificationdata cleaning
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How a Simple Learning‑Rate Trick Detects 90% of Noisy Labels in Image Data
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Sep 12, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

A Comprehensive Overview of Attention Mechanisms in Deep Learning

This article systematically reviews the history, core concepts, variants, and practical implementations of attention mechanisms—from early additive and multiplicative forms to self‑attention, multi‑head attention, and recent transformer‑based models—highlighting why attention has become fundamental in modern AI research.

Deep LearningNLPSelf-Attention
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A Comprehensive Overview of Attention Mechanisms in Deep Learning
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Sep 5, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Baidu Semantic Computing: ERNIE, SimNet, and Future Directions in Natural Language Processing

This article reviews Baidu's research on semantic computing, covering the evolution of semantic representation, the development and evaluation of the ERNIE and SimNet models, their industrial applications, model compression techniques, and outlines future research priorities in multilingual and multimodal semantic understanding.

Deep LearningErnieSemantic Representation
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Baidu Semantic Computing: ERNIE, SimNet, and Future Directions in Natural Language Processing
HomeTech
HomeTech
Sep 4, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Accelerating TensorFlow Model Inference with NVIDIA TensorRT: Methods, Experiments, and Results

This article explains how to use NVIDIA TensorRT to accelerate TensorFlow model inference by describing TensorRT architecture, optimization techniques such as layer fusion and precision calibration, detailing the conversion of frozen_graph and saved_model formats, presenting experimental setup and performance comparisons, and summarizing the achieved speed‑up.

Deep LearningInference AccelerationModel Optimization
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Accelerating TensorFlow Model Inference with NVIDIA TensorRT: Methods, Experiments, and Results
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Sep 3, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Clone Any Voice in Seconds with the Real-Time-Voice-Cloning Open‑Source TTS

This guide explains how the Real-Time-Voice-Cloning project uses deep‑learning text‑to‑speech techniques to generate a voice clone from a short audio sample, covering the underlying principle, required dataset, setup steps, demo usage, and ethical considerations.

Deep LearningReal-Time-Voice-Cloningtext-to-speech
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Clone Any Voice in Seconds with the Real-Time-Voice-Cloning Open‑Source TTS
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 3, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking Scalable Private‑Domain Recommendations with a “4+N” Architecture

This article describes a systematic, standardized, and automated “4+N” recommendation framework that unifies features, samples, models, and pipelines to accelerate private‑domain marketing recommendations across multiple scenarios while improving accuracy, efficiency, and business impact.

AI ArchitectureDeep LearningModel Deployment
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Unlocking Scalable Private‑Domain Recommendations with a “4+N” Architecture
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Aug 28, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding TensorFlow Internals with TensorSlow: Computational Graph, Forward/Backward Propagation, and Building an MLP

This article explains how Huajiao Live leverages Spark for data preprocessing and TensorFlow (augmented by the TensorSlow project) for distributed deep‑learning training, detailing computational‑graph concepts, forward and backward propagation, loss construction, gradient‑descent optimization, and a step‑by‑step Python implementation of a multi‑layer perceptron.

Computational GraphDeep LearningMLP
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Understanding TensorFlow Internals with TensorSlow: Computational Graph, Forward/Backward Propagation, and Building an MLP
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 27, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Transformers Enable Personalized Outfit Generation for Fashion Recommendation

This article presents a Transformer‑based framework that simultaneously generates visually compatible outfits and personalizes recommendations by leveraging multimodal item embeddings and user behavior, achieving significant gains in compatibility prediction, fill‑in‑the‑blank accuracy, and click‑through rate on Alibaba's iFashion platform.

Deep LearningMultimodal LearningTransformer
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How Transformers Enable Personalized Outfit Generation for Fashion Recommendation
Huajiao Technology
Huajiao Technology
Aug 27, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Mastering Collaborative Filtering: From Traditional Similarity to Deep Neural Models

This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of collaborative filtering, covering traditional user‑ and item‑based similarity methods, matrix‑factorization approaches for implicit feedback, various loss functions, and a suite of deep neural network models such as GMF, MLP, NeuMF, DMF, and ConvMF, together with implementation details, evaluation metrics, and practical deployment considerations.

Deep LearningRecommendation SystemsSpark
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Mastering Collaborative Filtering: From Traditional Similarity to Deep Neural Models
Beike Product & Technology
Beike Product & Technology
Aug 23, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning from Theory to Practice: Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, TensorFlow and Keras for Cat Image Classification

This tutorial walks readers through the fundamentals of artificial neural networks, perceptrons, logistic regression, activation and loss functions, gradient descent, and provides end‑to‑end Python implementations using NumPy, TensorFlow, and Keras to build and evaluate a cat‑vs‑non‑cat classifier, complete with code snippets, visual explanations, and performance analysis.

Deep LearningKerasNeural Networks
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Deep Learning from Theory to Practice: Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, TensorFlow and Keras for Cat Image Classification
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 19, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How RE2 Boosts FAQ Chatbot Accuracy: A Deep Dive into Text Matching Models

This article explains the design and evaluation of RE2, a lightweight yet expressive text‑matching framework for FAQ‑style chatbots, detailing its five‑layer architecture, block‑wise residual connections, experimental results on SNLI, MultiNLI, SciTail, Quora and WikiQA datasets, and its significant performance improvements in Alibaba’s DingXiaoMi service.

Deep LearningFAQ chatbotIndustrial AI
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How RE2 Boosts FAQ Chatbot Accuracy: A Deep Dive into Text Matching Models
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Aug 17, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Didi’s Elastic Inference Service & IFX Engine: Achieving World‑Class AI Inference

Didi’s Elastic Inference Service (EIS) and its IFX AI acceleration engine provide a distributed, cost‑effective inference platform that automatically scales resources based on QPS and latency requirements, supports major deep‑learning frameworks, excels in public‑cloud, private‑cloud, IoT and edge scenarios, and achieved top‑rank DAWNBench latency and cost scores on ImageNet with P4 GPUs.

AI inferenceBenchmarkCloud AI
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Didi’s Elastic Inference Service & IFX Engine: Achieving World‑Class AI Inference
Big Data Technology Architecture
Big Data Technology Architecture
Aug 15, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Swift May Be the Next Big Thing in Deep Learning

The article explains why Google created Swift for TensorFlow, highlights Swift's strong backing, built‑in automatic differentiation, high performance comparable to C, seamless interoperability with Python, C and C++, low‑level hardware access, and its future role within the MLIR compiler ecosystem for deep learning.

Deep LearningInteroperabilityMLIR
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Why Swift May Be the Next Big Thing in Deep Learning
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 15, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Auto Risk Transforms Behavior Sequence Data with Unsupervised Pre‑Training

This article introduces Auto Risk, a deep‑learning risk model for behavior‑sequence data that leverages unsupervised pre‑training with proxy tasks, details its convolution‑attention encoder, demonstrates significant gains across multiple business scenarios, and highlights its strong small‑sample and analogy capabilities.

Deep LearningRisk ModelingUnsupervised Learning
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How Auto Risk Transforms Behavior Sequence Data with Unsupervised Pre‑Training
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 14, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How MIMN+UIC Breaks the Long-Sequence Barrier in Real-Time CTR Prediction

This article presents a co-designed algorithm‑system solution—MIMN and an independent UIC module—that enables ultra‑long user behavior modeling for click‑through rate prediction, delivering significant offline AUC gains and online CTR/RPM improvements in Alibaba's display advertising platform.

CTR predictionDeep LearningRecommendation Systems
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How MIMN+UIC Breaks the Long-Sequence Barrier in Real-Time CTR Prediction
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Aug 6, 2019 · Cloud Computing

Tencent Cloud AIoT Product: Edge AI Capabilities and Cloud-Edge Collaboration Architecture

Tencent Cloud’s AIoT solution combines edge AI processing with a cloud‑edge collaboration framework, using container‑orchestrated microservices, AI chips and IoT connectivity to cut latency to milliseconds, lower bandwidth by sending only structured data, and enable real‑time applications such as smart retail, manufacturing, agriculture and building security.

AIoTDeep LearningEdge Computing
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Tencent Cloud AIoT Product: Edge AI Capabilities and Cloud-Edge Collaboration Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 30, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Auto Risk: Pretraining Deep Models on Unlabeled Behavior Sequences

This article introduces Auto Risk, a behavior‑sequence deep‑learning framework that uses unsupervised pre‑training with proxy tasks to learn universal feature representations from massive unlabeled data, achieving significant gains in risk‑control scenarios, improving AUC, supporting multi‑scene generalization and small‑sample learning.

Deep LearningRisk ModelingUnsupervised Learning
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Auto Risk: Pretraining Deep Models on Unlabeled Behavior Sequences
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 25, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Three Waves of AI Development and Their Core Technologies

The article outlines AI’s three historical waves—search and reasoning, expert systems, and machine‑learning/deep‑learning—detailing their core technologies, achievements, and limitations, while emphasizing how past cycles inform today’s narrow AI advances and the renewed relevance of computing power and data‑driven methods.

AI historyDeep Learningartificial intelligence
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Three Waves of AI Development and Their Core Technologies
Suning Technology
Suning Technology
Jul 24, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Multi‑Scale Body‑Part Masks Revolutionize Person Re‑Identification at CVPR 2019

At CVPR 2019 in Long Beach, Suning’s AI team presented a breakthrough paper on multi‑scale body‑part mask guided attention for person re‑identification, detailing the conference’s selectivity, the challenges of re‑identification, and how their deep‑learning approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance.

Attention MechanismCVPR 2019Deep Learning
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Multi‑Scale Body‑Part Masks Revolutionize Person Re‑Identification at CVPR 2019
Amap Tech
Amap Tech
Jul 23, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Traffic Sign Detection in Gaode Maps: Machine Learning Techniques and System Architecture

Gaode Maps uses a two-stage machine‑learning pipeline (Faster‑RCNN with shape‑based region proposal networks and fine‑grained classifiers) to detect hundreds of traffic‑sign types in billions of street‑view images, achieving high recall and precision, scalable updates, and near‑real‑time map data refresh.

AIComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Traffic Sign Detection in Gaode Maps: Machine Learning Techniques and System Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 9, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Demystifying Attention: A Clear Guide to Its History, Types, and Why It Works

This article systematically reviews the evolution of attention mechanisms—from early additive and multiplicative forms to self‑attention and multi‑head variants—explaining their core three‑step framework, key differences, and why they have become essential across NLP, vision, and broader AI applications.

Deep LearningNLPSelf-Attention
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Demystifying Attention: A Clear Guide to Its History, Types, and Why It Works
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Jul 5, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

iQIYI Multimodal Person Recognition Competition: 91.14% Accuracy Achieved by BUPT Team

After a three‑month contest co‑hosted by iQIYI and ACM MM, 255 teams competed on the challenging iQIYI‑VID‑2019 multimodal dataset, and the BUPT Automation School team won with a 91.14% person‑recognition accuracy, advancing the field and enhancing iQIYI’s video recommendation and AI services.

AI competitionComputer VisionDataset
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iQIYI Multimodal Person Recognition Competition: 91.14% Accuracy Achieved by BUPT Team
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Jul 2, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding TensorFlow Internals with TensorSlow: A Deep Learning Guide

This article explains how TensorFlow powers Huajiao Live's recommendation system, introduces the TensorSlow project for demystifying TensorFlow's core, and walks through deep‑learning fundamentals, computational‑graph concepts, forward and backward propagation, loss construction, gradient‑descent optimization, and building a multi‑layer perceptron with Python code examples.

Computational GraphDeep LearningMLP
0 likes · 13 min read
Understanding TensorFlow Internals with TensorSlow: A Deep Learning Guide
Huajiao Technology
Huajiao Technology
Jul 2, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding Deep Learning with TensorFlow: Applications, Computational Graphs, and MLP Implementation

This article introduces deep learning applications at Huajiao Live, explains TensorFlow's computational graph architecture, details core concepts such as placeholders, variables, operations, forward and backward propagation, and provides complete Python-like code examples for building and training a multi-layer perceptron.

Computational GraphDeep LearningMLP
0 likes · 14 min read
Understanding Deep Learning with TensorFlow: Applications, Computational Graphs, and MLP Implementation
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Jun 27, 2019 · Frontend Development

Image-to-UI Code Generation Demo and Architecture Overview

The Xianyu team’s new “black‑tech” system automatically transforms UI mockup images into production‑ready code by detecting components with deep‑learning models, extracting layouts via OpenCV, and employing a modular stream‑oriented architecture of units, tasks, and server layers that enables rapid testing, flexible composition, and future enhancements such as improved container recognition and semantic understanding.

Deep LearningImage AnalysisUI Generation
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Image-to-UI Code Generation Demo and Architecture Overview
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 20, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlock Cutting-Edge Voice AI: Highlights from Alibaba’s Speech & Signal Processing eBook

This article introduces Alibaba's new e‑book collection of five ICASSP‑accepted papers that showcase advances in speech recognition, synthesis, and emotion detection, detailing novel models like DFSMN, A‑LSTM, and speaker‑adaptation techniques that dramatically improve speed, size, and accuracy.

AI voiceDeep LearningEmotion Recognition
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Unlock Cutting-Edge Voice AI: Highlights from Alibaba’s Speech & Signal Processing eBook
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 12, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s PAISoar Accelerates Deep Learning: 101× Speedup on 128 GPUs

Alibaba engineers detail the PAISoar distributed training framework, showing how RDMA‑optimized hardware, Ring AllReduce algorithms, and user‑friendly APIs boost deep‑learning models—like the GreenNet CNN—to 101‑fold speedups on 128 GPUs, dramatically reducing training time from days to under a day.

AI InfrastructureDeep LearningDistributed Training
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How Alibaba’s PAISoar Accelerates Deep Learning: 101× Speedup on 128 GPUs
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 5, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Tencent Cloud OCR Technology: Principles, Challenges, and Industry Applications

Tencent Cloud OCR leverages deep‑learning‑based text detection and recognition, including Compact Inception and multi‑layer RNN refinements, to overcome challenges such as complex backgrounds, low resolution, and multilingual layouts, delivering over 90% accuracy for ID cards, bank cards, business licenses, handwritten text, and powering fast, cost‑saving applications in logistics, QQ, and WeChat Work.

Deep LearningImage ProcessingOCR
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Tencent Cloud OCR Technology: Principles, Challenges, and Industry Applications
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 5, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Tracing the Evolution of Language Models: From N‑grams to GPT‑2

This article reviews the historical development of natural language processing language models, covering expert rule‑based systems, statistical n‑grams, smoothing techniques, neural network models such as NNLM, RNN, word2vec, GloVe, ELMo, and the transformer‑based breakthroughs of GPT, BERT and GPT‑2, and summarizes their impact on modern NLP tasks.

BERTDeep LearningGPT
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Tracing the Evolution of Language Models: From N‑grams to GPT‑2
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
May 29, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Youku Video Enhancement and Super-Resolution Competition Announcement

The Youku Video Enhancement and Super‑Resolution Challenge invites teams to develop models that restore low‑resolution, noisy video to high‑definition quality using a 10,000‑pair industry dataset, offering up to RMB 100,000 in prizes and a recruitment pathway, with registration open through June 16 and competition phases spanning May to September.

AI competitionComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Youku Video Enhancement and Super-Resolution Competition Announcement
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 27, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

From Neurons to BERT: Tracing the Evolution of Deep Learning in NLP

This article walks through the development of deep learning for natural language processing, starting with basic neural cells and shallow networks, then exploring CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, TextCNN, ESIM, ELMo, and culminating with the Transformer‑based BERT model, its training objectives, fine‑tuning strategies, and performance comparisons.

BERTCNNDeep Learning
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From Neurons to BERT: Tracing the Evolution of Deep Learning in NLP
Beike Product & Technology
Beike Product & Technology
May 23, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Practical Applications and Challenges of Machine Learning and AI at QCon Beijing 2019

At QCon Beijing 2019, four Beike technology experts presented the practical use and challenges of machine learning for user profiling, deep‑learning‑based house‑quality scoring, intelligent customer‑service systems, and AI‑driven floor‑plan generation, summarizing the architecture, data pipelines, model evolution, and future improvement directions.

AIDeep LearningGAN
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Practical Applications and Challenges of Machine Learning and AI at QCon Beijing 2019
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
May 20, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Youku Video Enhancement and Super‑Resolution Competition Overview

The Youku Video Enhancement and Super‑Resolution Competition challenges teams of up to five to develop 4× upscaling models that also remove noise and compression artifacts, using a 10,000‑pair dataset, with prizes up to ¥100,000 and recruitment opportunities, running from May to September 2019.

AI competitionComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Youku Video Enhancement and Super‑Resolution Competition Overview
HomeTech
HomeTech
May 15, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build a Deep Learning Model to Predict Workdays from Attendance Data

This article walks beginners through the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, using a real‑world attendance dataset to illustrate how to label data, construct a simple linear model, and expand it into a neural network for workday prediction.

Deep LearningNeural Networksartificial intelligence
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How to Build a Deep Learning Model to Predict Workdays from Attendance Data
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
May 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Distributed Training with MXNet: Data Parallel on Single and Multi‑Node GPUs and Integration with Kubeflow

This article explains how MXNet supports data‑parallel training on single‑machine multi‑GPU and multi‑machine multi‑GPU setups, describes KVStore modes, outlines the worker‑server‑scheduler architecture, and shows how to launch large‑scale distributed training using Kubeflow and the mxnet‑operator.

Data ParallelDeep LearningDistributed Training
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Distributed Training with MXNet: Data Parallel on Single and Multi‑Node GPUs and Integration with Kubeflow
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 7, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

What Makes Alibaba’s MNN Engine a Game-Changer for Mobile AI Inference?

Alibaba’s open‑source MNN is a lightweight, high‑performance deep‑learning inference engine optimized for edge devices, supporting multiple model formats and backends, offering portability across iOS, Android, and IoT, with detailed architecture, performance benchmarks, roadmap, and real‑world application examples.

Deep LearningMNNPerformance Optimization
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What Makes Alibaba’s MNN Engine a Game-Changer for Mobile AI Inference?
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
May 6, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning Practices in Meituan O2O Service Search

The article details Meituan's large‑scale O2O search platform, describing its current coverage, challenges such as heterogeneous POI data and user intent diversity, and the deep‑learning‑driven solutions—including intelligent matching, business recognition, component analysis, semantic models, real‑time features, and future personalization directions.

AIDeep LearningMeituan
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Deep Learning Practices in Meituan O2O Service Search
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 30, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Can Deep Neural Networks Be Accelerated and Compressed? Key Techniques Explained

This article reviews why deep neural networks are over‑parameterized, outlines the challenges of deploying them on mobile and embedded devices, and presents six major strategies—pruning, low‑rank approximation, filter selection, quantization, knowledge distillation, and novel architecture design—to accelerate and compress models while preserving performance.

Deep Learningknowledge distillationmodel acceleration
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How Can Deep Neural Networks Be Accelerated and Compressed? Key Techniques Explained
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Apr 29, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Precise and Fast Object Segmentation Algorithms – Talk by Ren Haibing (Youku Cognitive Lab)

Ren Haibing’s Youku Cognitive Lab talk reviews object segmentation’s motivation, explains semantic and instance concepts, presents UNet‑based and category‑agnostic methods—including fast video segmentation with motion cues—and reports high IoU results while outlining future edge‑aware, label‑free, and non‑online video segmentation research directions.

AIComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Precise and Fast Object Segmentation Algorithms – Talk by Ren Haibing (Youku Cognitive Lab)
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 25, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Self-Driving Cars

This article reviews the evolution of autonomous‑driving research, explains how to design end‑to‑end deep‑neural‑network models such as PilotNet, and outlines a reinforcement‑learning based decision system, highlighting key architectures, performance metrics, and future challenges.

Deep LearningEnd-to-EndPilotNet
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How to Build End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Self-Driving Cars
HomeTech
HomeTech
Apr 25, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Basics, Applications, and How to Get Started

This article provides a beginner-friendly overview of artificial intelligence, explaining its core concepts, the relationship between AI, machine learning and deep learning, common real-world applications such as search and recommendation, and practical steps and resources for newcomers to start learning AI with Python and basic statistics.

AIData ScienceDeep Learning
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An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Basics, Applications, and How to Get Started
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 24, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Text Sentiment Classification Using Multi‑layer LSTM: Data Preparation, Model Architecture, and Business Applications

The article details a practical workflow for Chinese sentiment classification in Tencent’s Goose Man product, covering data preparation, word‑segmentation challenges, a six‑layer multi‑LSTM architecture with word embeddings, training results achieving roughly 96 % accuracy, and its deployment for automatic detection of misleading and high‑impact user reviews.

Chinese NLPDeep LearningKeras
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Chinese Text Sentiment Classification Using Multi‑layer LSTM: Data Preparation, Model Architecture, and Business Applications
JD Tech Talk
JD Tech Talk
Apr 19, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Fundamentals and Practical Applications of Text Mining: Workflow, Methods, and a Sentiment Analysis Case Study

This article outlines the end‑to‑end text‑mining workflow—from data acquisition and preprocessing to feature extraction, algorithm selection, and model evaluation—while demonstrating a sentiment‑analysis case study that combines LDA topic modeling with deep‑learning classifiers.

Deep LearningLDASentiment Analysis
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Fundamentals and Practical Applications of Text Mining: Workflow, Methods, and a Sentiment Analysis Case Study
Sohu Tech Products
Sohu Tech Products
Apr 17, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

CTR Estimation in Recommendation Systems: From Logistic Regression to Deep & Cross Networks

This article reviews the evolution of click‑through‑rate (CTR) estimation models for recommendation ranking, covering logistic regression, feature‑engineering tricks, factorization machines, deep neural networks, wide‑and‑deep architectures, and the Deep & Cross Network, while discussing their strengths, limitations, and future research directions.

CTRDeep LearningRecommendation Systems
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CTR Estimation in Recommendation Systems: From Logistic Regression to Deep & Cross Networks
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 16, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Building Image Recognition Systems: From Basics to Advanced AI Techniques

This article summarizes a computer‑vision salon where Dr. Ji Yongnan explains imaging pipelines, traditional feature‑based methods, deep‑learning breakthroughs, Tencent Cloud AI services, real‑world case studies, and answers audience questions about machine‑vision versus computer‑vision and data‑scarcity challenges.

AI applicationsComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Building Image Recognition Systems: From Basics to Advanced AI Techniques
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 16, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Deep Learning Transforms Network Bandwidth Prediction: From RNN to CNN‑RNN Hybrids

This article explores how deep learning techniques such as RNN, LSTM, 3D‑CNN, and CNN‑RNN hybrids can be applied to predict network bandwidth and traffic, comparing traditional time‑series methods with modern AI approaches and highlighting the potential of graph neural networks for future improvements.

CNNDeep LearningNetwork Traffic
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How Deep Learning Transforms Network Bandwidth Prediction: From RNN to CNN‑RNN Hybrids
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 15, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build a Breast Cancer Prediction Neural Network from Scratch in Python

This article walks through creating a Python‑based neural network to predict breast cancer using the Wisconsin dataset, covering network architecture, weight and bias initialization, back‑propagation, gradient descent, and the role of activation functions such as sigmoid, tanh, ReLU and Leaky ReLU.

Deep LearningNeural NetworkPython
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How to Build a Breast Cancer Prediction Neural Network from Scratch in Python
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 15, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Deep Learning Finally Succeeded and What Challenges Lie Ahead

This article reviews Jia Yangqing’s insights on why deep learning finally succeeded—highlighting the roles of big data and high‑performance computing—while examining its current limitations, emerging challenges, and future opportunities across AI engineering, AutoML, and hardware‑software co‑design.

AI ChallengesAI EngineeringAutoML
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Why Deep Learning Finally Succeeded and What Challenges Lie Ahead
Sohu Tech Products
Sohu Tech Products
Apr 11, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Media Domain Named Entity Recognition: Techniques, Evolution, and Sohu’s Practical Implementation

This article reviews the challenges of media‑domain named entity recognition, outlines the evolution from rule‑based methods through traditional machine‑learning and deep‑learning models to attention‑based Transformers, and details Sohu’s practical Bi‑LSTM‑CRF system with data‑annotation strategies and performance results.

Bi-LSTMCRFDeep Learning
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Media Domain Named Entity Recognition: Techniques, Evolution, and Sohu’s Practical Implementation
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 11, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Optimizing Real-Time Ad Bidding with Reinforcement Learning: A Deep Dive

This article explains how real‑time bidding works in computational advertising, defines the budget‑constrained bidding problem, models it with reinforcement learning, and presents a deep‑network implementation together with visual analysis and key references.

AdvertisingDeep Learningbudget optimization
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Optimizing Real-Time Ad Bidding with Reinforcement Learning: A Deep Dive
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Designing Deep Learning Models for Item Similarity in Recommendation Systems

This article explains how to build both unsupervised and supervised deep‑learning models that compute item similarity from user behavior, covering prod2vec embeddings, skip‑gram architectures, loss function design, and practical training steps for modern recommender systems.

Deep LearningRecommendation SystemsUnsupervised Learning
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Designing Deep Learning Models for Item Similarity in Recommendation Systems
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Apr 8, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

AI Scientific Frontier Conference 2019 – Program, Speakers, and Schedule

The AI Scientific Frontier Conference 2019, co‑hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences AI Alliance and Beijing Institute of Technology, gathers leading researchers to present cutting‑edge talks on AI theory, deep learning, computer vision, robotics, NLP, big data, and related applications, with detailed schedules, speaker bios, venue information, and registration details provided.

AIData ScienceDeep Learning
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AI Scientific Frontier Conference 2019 – Program, Speakers, and Schedule
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 4, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How BERT, GPT, and ELMo Revolutionize Language Feature Representation

Natural language processing, a cornerstone of AI, relies on language models to capture linguistic features; this article reviews classic pre‑training models—ELMo, GPT, and BERT—explaining their architectures, training objectives, and how they boost downstream NLP tasks despite data‑scarcity challenges.

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How BERT, GPT, and ELMo Revolutionize Language Feature Representation
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Apr 2, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

From Object Detection to Language Models: A Deep Dive into AI Advances

This article surveys the evolution of object detection models—comparing one‑stage and two‑stage approaches, their performance trade‑offs, and recent state‑of‑the‑art methods—while also outlining key concepts and breakthroughs in natural language processing, highlighting the impact of deep‑learning models such as BERT.

AI researchBERTDeep Learning
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From Object Detection to Language Models: A Deep Dive into AI Advances
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 2, 2019 · Mobile Development

How xNN-OCR Brings High‑Precision, Real‑Time OCR to Mobile Devices

This article explains how the lightweight xNN-OCR engine achieves high accuracy and real‑time performance on mobile devices through deep‑learning model compression, novel detection and recognition techniques, and showcases its practical applications such as bank‑card, gas‑meter, license‑plate, and ID recognition.

Deep Learningedge AImobile OCR
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How xNN-OCR Brings High‑Precision, Real‑Time OCR to Mobile Devices
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 22, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding Alibaba’s “Image Matters” Paper: Deep Image CTR Model (DICM) and Advanced Model Server

This article interprets Alibaba’s “Image Matters” paper, explaining how the Deep Image CTR Model (DICM) introduces user‑side visual preference modeling with image embeddings, why traditional Parameter Servers struggle with large image vectors, and how the Advanced Model Server (AMS) compresses embeddings to enable efficient distributed training.

Advanced Model ServerCTRDeep Learning
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Understanding Alibaba’s “Image Matters” Paper: Deep Image CTR Model (DICM) and Advanced Model Server
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Mar 21, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How GANs’ Objective Functions Evolved: From JS Divergence to Modern Variants

This article explores the evolution of Generative Adversarial Networks' objective functions, detailing the shift from Jensen‑Shannon divergence to f‑divergence, IPM‑based approaches, and auxiliary losses, while highlighting their impact on stability and performance across image, audio, and text generation tasks.

Deep LearningGANsGenerative Adversarial Networks
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How GANs’ Objective Functions Evolved: From JS Divergence to Modern Variants
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 20, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Taobao’s Search & Recommendation Algorithms Evolved: From Rules to Cognitive AI

This article reviews the evolution of Taobao’s search and recommendation technology, tracing its journey from simple statistical models and rule‑based systems through large‑scale machine learning and real‑time online learning to modern deep‑learning and cognitive intelligence approaches that drive e‑commerce innovation.

Deep LearningSearch Algorithmscognitive AI
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How Taobao’s Search & Recommendation Algorithms Evolved: From Rules to Cognitive AI
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 19, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking Anomaly Detection: Techniques from Time Series to Deep Learning

This comprehensive guide explores anomaly (outlier) detection across diverse methods—including time‑series analysis, statistical tests, distance metrics, matrix factorization, graph approaches, behavior‑sequence modeling, and supervised machine‑learning models—highlighting their principles, formulas, and practical use cases such as fraud prevention and system monitoring.

Deep LearningTime Seriesanomaly detection
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Unlocking Anomaly Detection: Techniques from Time Series to Deep Learning
Hulu Beijing
Hulu Beijing
Mar 7, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

From AlexNet to ResNeXt: Key Milestones in CNN Evolution

This article traces the evolution of convolutional neural networks from the pioneering AlexNet through VGG, Inception, ResNet, Inception‑v4, Inception‑ResNet and ResNeXt, highlighting architectural innovations, performance gains, and the underlying biological inspirations that shaped modern deep learning models.

AlexNetCNNComputer Vision
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From AlexNet to ResNeXt: Key Milestones in CNN Evolution
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 6, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Deep Learning Unwarps Curved Document Images for Better OCR

This article explores how deep‑learning‑based image dewarping techniques, from traditional hardware methods to modern U‑Net, Stacked U‑Net and Dilated U‑Net architectures, can correct warped document photos, improve OCR accuracy, and support intelligent verification in high‑throughput business scenarios.

Deep LearningModel EvaluationOCR
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How Deep Learning Unwarps Curved Document Images for Better OCR
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 5, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Semantic Human Matting Achieves Fully Automatic High‑Precision Image Cutouts

This article introduces Alibaba’s intelligent matting editor and its Semantic Human Matting (SHM) algorithm, detailing the integration of semantic segmentation and deep matting networks, the fusion module, training strategy, experimental results, and the deployment of an online fully‑automatic cutout tool for designers.

AlibabaDeep Learningautomatic cutout
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How Alibaba’s Semantic Human Matting Achieves Fully Automatic High‑Precision Image Cutouts
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Feb 27, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

UI2CODE: Layout Analysis and Background/Foreground Extraction for UI Images

The UI2CODE system tackles UI layout analysis by first extracting backgrounds with Sobel, Laplacian and Canny edge detection plus a flood‑fill algorithm, then isolating foreground components through connected‑component analysis and a Faster R‑CNN classifier, and finally fusing both pipelines to achieve superior precision, recall and IoU on Xianyu app screenshots.

Computer VisionDeep LearningFaster R-CNN
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UI2CODE: Layout Analysis and Background/Foreground Extraction for UI Images
58 Tech
58 Tech
Feb 22, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Algorithm Evolution and Implementation of 58.com Intelligent QABot for Business Consultation

The article details the design and iterative improvement of 58.com’s intelligent QABot, covering knowledge‑base construction, feature engineering, three generations of classification models—including FastText, Bi‑LSTM, and deep semantic matching—and evaluation metrics that achieve high accuracy and automation rates.

AIDeep LearningIntelligent Customer Service
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Algorithm Evolution and Implementation of 58.com Intelligent QABot for Business Consultation
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Feb 9, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to TensorFlow and Building a Simple Neural Network for Image Classification

This article introduces TensorFlow, explains when neural networks are appropriate, outlines the general workflow for solving image‑based problems, and provides a step‑by‑step Python implementation of a multilayer perceptron that classifies handwritten digits, while also discussing TensorFlow's strengths, limitations, and alternatives.

Deep LearningImage ClassificationNeural Networks
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Introduction to TensorFlow and Building a Simple Neural Network for Image Classification