Large-Scale Distributed Learning

Youku Technology

Oct 25, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

Interview with Wang Xiaobo (Yongshu) on Large‑Scale Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, and AutoML at Alibaba and Youku

At the AI Pioneer Conference, Wang Xiaobo, head of Alibaba’s Commercial Machine Intelligence and Youku’s algorithm teams, discussed large‑scale distributed learning, recommendation challenges such as cold‑start and video heterogeneity, AutoML innovations, multi‑modal search during promotions, and the future demand for specialists in few‑shot learning and domain adaptation.