Microsoft has fully opened Bing Chat to all users, introducing multimodal responses, a multilingual Image Creator, persistent chat history, and upcoming plugin support, while sharing usage statistics and outlining weekly update plans that position Bing as an AI‑driven search copilot competing with ChatGPT.
This presentation introduces the Mengzi lightweight model technology stack, covering large‑scale pre‑training, motivations for lightweight models, detailed techniques such as knowledge and sequence‑relation enhancement, training optimization, model compression, retrieval‑augmented pre‑training, multimodal extensions, open‑source releases, and real‑world applications.
This article reviews Microsoft’s extensive 155‑page work on early experiments with GPT‑4, exploring how the model approaches artificial general intelligence, its testing methodology, multimodal capabilities, programming and mathematical performance, interaction with tools and humans, limitations, societal impact, and future research directions.
In a GTC fireside chat, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever discuss GPT‑4's multimodal advances, the evolution of deep learning from early neural networks to large‑scale models, the pivotal role of GPUs and datasets like ImageNet, and their vision for more reliable, scalable artificial intelligence.
The article reviews Baidu’s newly launched Ernie Bot, a multimodal large language model, comparing its literary, business, mathematical, Chinese comprehension, and multimodal abilities with GPT‑4, while detailing the underlying technologies, knowledge‑enhancement techniques, and deployment strategy behind the model.
Baidu unveiled its new generative AI chatbot ERNIE Bot, showcasing five practical scenarios, multimodal generation, a detailed technical stack based on the ERNIE and PLATO models, and a comparison with ChatGPT and Bing Chat, while also announcing its invitation‑only testing program and API access for enterprises.
The article reviews Baidu's launch of the multimodal large language model Wenxin Yiyan, compares its literary, business, mathematical, Chinese‑understanding and multimodal abilities with GPT‑4, explains the underlying six‑core technologies and hardware stack, and reports the mixed market and netizen response.
OpenAI's GPT‑4, a large multimodal language model, expands token limits, adds image understanding, demonstrates strong reasoning on professional exams, supports many languages, and is already integrated into Microsoft Bing, while offering various access options and improved safety compared to its predecessor.
The paper presents CapOnImage, a novel image‑on‑image captioning task that generates location‑specific decorative text for product images, introduces the 2.1‑million‑image CapOnImage2M dataset, and proposes a mixed‑modality transformer with position‑aware pre‑training and progressive training, achieving superior accuracy and diversity and already deployed in Alibaba’s advertising platforms for measurable business impact.
The paper details Cloud Music’s video‑search pipeline—query understanding, recall, relevance, ranking and re‑ranking—highlighting challenges such as ambiguous content, timeliness and multi‑objective goals, and describes two deployed models (a twin‑tower aspect relevance network and a click‑graph propagator) that together boost click‑through rate by 1.5 % and effective CTR by 2.3 %.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of multimodal pre‑training, describing its motivation, architecture choices, large‑scale Chinese image‑text dataset construction, training optimizations, performance benchmarks, downstream applications, and a Q&A session that highlights practical deployment considerations.
This article explains how neural search enables multimodal data handling, introduces the DocArray data structures (Document and DocumentArray), and demonstrates how Jina’s cloud‑native framework can be used to build, deploy, and scale end‑to‑end multimodal services such as DocsQA.
This paper presents an end‑to‑end approach for extracting relational triples directly from speech signals, bypassing intermediate transcription, and demonstrates its effectiveness on synthesized speech versions of the CoNLL04 and TACRED datasets, highlighting challenges such as length constraints and cross‑modal alignment.
The Intelligent Creative System defines advertising creatives across formats, evaluates image and text quality using reference‑based metrics and models like DeepBIQ, generates multimodal ads via GANs and Transformers, and selects optimal variants through bandit‑based CTR prediction and multimodal fusion, enabling scalable, data‑driven creative production.
This article presents an in‑depth overview of intelligent question answering in QQ Browser search, covering its background, the core KBQA and DeepQA technologies, system architecture, challenges, recent advances such as end‑to‑end, knowledge‑guided and multimodal QA, and practical Q&A for deployment.
The paper describes NetEase Cloud Music’s LOOK live‑streaming recommendation system for the song‑playback page, which combines millisecond‑level real‑time feature pipelines, multi‑target optimization (click, watch, gift, comment) via ESMM+FM and MMoE models, GradNorm‑based loss fusion, and a multimodal avatar‑text‑host ranking model, achieving double‑digit CTR and CTCVR gains while balancing producer and consumer retention.
This article introduces the concept of modality, outlines the five research branches of multimodal models, and presents a concrete case where multimodal deep‑learning techniques are applied to predict and improve game frame rates using both static and temporal features.
This article introduces EasyNLP’s newly integrated Chinese text‑to‑image generation framework, explains the underlying Transformer‑VQGAN architecture, provides model specifications, code snippets, performance benchmarks on multiple datasets, and step‑by‑step tutorials for fine‑tuning and inference using open‑source checkpoints.
This article introduces EasyNLP's Chinese text‑to‑image generation framework, explains the underlying Transformer‑VQGAN architecture, provides model specifications, showcases sample outputs, and offers step‑by‑step code and command‑line instructions for fine‑tuning and inference.
The DataFun 2022 NLP Summit, held on July 30, brings together top researchers and industry leaders from Alibaba, Baidu, Microsoft, Amazon, and more to present the latest advances in large‑scale pre‑training, multimodal perception, information extraction, dialogue interaction, machine translation, and practical AI deployments, with live streaming and free registration via QR code.
This article presents JD.com's end‑to‑end intelligent creative system, covering the background of content‑driven e‑commerce, a multi‑stage content understanding pipeline, AI‑powered video, image and copy generation, multimodal creative selection and distribution, and real‑world business impact.
Alibaba Alimama’s fully automatic, template‑free image‑text creative generation system uses deep‑learning models across material mining, layout synthesis, on‑image copy generation, and visual attribute rendering to produce personalized ad creatives directly from product images and metadata, achieving roughly 19 % CTR lift over prior template‑based methods.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of education knowledge graphs, explaining their definition, significance, diverse application scenarios such as smart textbooks, deep reading, subject insight, and intelligent services, while also analyzing technical challenges like data heterogeneity, granularity, multimodality, quality control, and proposing future research directions.
The paper introduces Action Sequence Verification (ASV), a task that determines whether two videos follow the same ordered actions, provides the Chemical Sequence Verification dataset and re‑annotated COIN‑SV and Diving48‑SV sets, and proposes the CosAlignment Transformer (CAT) with intra‑step feature extraction, a Transformer‑based inter‑step encoder, and a sequence‑alignment loss that outperforms prior baselines and serves as a pre‑training model for video retrieval and classification.
The 2022 Global AI Technology Innovation Competition – Algorithm Challenge, co‑hosted by JD Retail and academic partners, brought together 12 finalist teams from over 3,000 entrants to tackle e‑commerce‑focused AI problems such as multimodal image‑text matching and product‑title entity recognition, highlighting real‑world business impact and fostering talent exchange.
XYLayoutLM introduces a layout‑aware multimodal network that improves visually‑rich document understanding by augmenting XY‑Cut for robust reading order generation and employing a Dilated Conditional Position Encoding to handle variable‑length inputs, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on XFUN and FUNSD datasets.
The paper proposes a multimodal pre‑training framework that jointly encodes query text and item titles with images via shared and single‑stream towers, using MLM, MPM, QIC, and matching tasks, and demonstrates substantial Recall@K gains on a billion‑item e‑commerce catalog by leveraging visual cues to bridge the semantic gap.
This article presents a multimodal approach that combines dynamic analysis and graph machine learning to generate and apply social relationship graphs in videos, detailing problem background, graph generation modules, applications such as video retrieval, experimental results, and future research directions.
This article reviews three representative document intelligence models—StrucText, LayoutLMv3, and GraphDoc—detailing their input features, feature fusion strategies, self‑supervised tasks, and underlying architectures, and explains how they learn embeddings for segments, words, or regions to enable classification and key‑value extraction.
The paper presents a glance‑supervised video moment retrieval approach that records a single annotator‑seen frame, introduces the ViGA contrastive learning framework to leverage this weak temporal cue, and demonstrates on three benchmarks performance rivaling fully supervised methods while keeping annotation cost minimal.
Tencent’s newly unveiled HunYuan AI model achieved a grand‑slam by ranking first on the five most authoritative cross‑modal video retrieval datasets, showcasing a hierarchical multimodal approach that dramatically boosts retrieval precision and promises broad impact for both research and industry applications.
The paper tackles Taobao Live’s cold‑start problem for new users by introducing a multi‑channel lifelong product‑sequence network that enriches purchase histories with side information, extracts relevance‑focused subsequences across five channels, and integrates them via target‑attention DIN, achieving substantial offline and online performance gains, especially for low‑activity users.
This article introduces Meituan's on‑site comprehensive knowledge graph, detailing its multi‑layer design, data‑driven construction pipeline, challenges of diverse user demands and industry complexity, and showcases practical applications in search, recommendation, intelligent display, as well as future expansion plans.
This article explains CLIP’s multimodal contrastive pre‑training, its simple yet effective architecture, code implementation, and how its zero‑shot capability can surpass supervised ImageNet models by leveraging a 400‑million image‑text dataset and shared semantic embeddings.
This talk presents Tencent's multimodal content understanding framework for search, covering hierarchical content features, large‑scale ranking, fine‑grained image semantic vectors, video and document analysis, quality detection, duplicate removal, and future directions in AI‑driven search.
This talk reviews recent progress in neural‑symbolic learning and multimodal knowledge discovery, highlighting examples such as GPT‑3 reasoning failures, the need for symbolic knowledge, historical developments, various integration methods, challenges in multimodal knowledge graphs, and future research directions.
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy and Tsinghua University introduced M6‑UFC, a non‑autoregressive multimodal transformer that unifies arbitrary text and image controls to generate high‑quality, editable fashion designs, dramatically reducing carbon emissions and outperforming GAN‑based models in fidelity and relevance while accelerating production speed.
This article presents an in‑depth overview of Alibaba's real‑time voice dialogue system, covering the Hotline XiaoMi robot, the unique challenges of spoken interactions such as colloquialism, multimodality and duplex communication, and the research advances in ASR‑robust SLU, emotion detection, colloquial processing, and duplex conversation modeling.
The Ant Insurance Technology team, together with the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, secured first place in both the MuSe‑Wilder and MuSe‑Sent tracks of the MuSe2021 Multimodal Sentiment Challenge held at the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Chengdu, showcasing advanced multimodal AI techniques.
This article presents Alibaba's AliMe team's year‑long progress on knowledge graph research, covering the fundamentals of knowledge graphs, domain and multimodal graph construction techniques, practical e‑commerce applications such as dialogue‑driven recommendation, virtual‑anchor script generation, and insights on future directions.
This article explains the fundamentals of contrastive learning, reviews typical models such as SimCLR, MoCo, SwAV, BYOL, SimSiam and Barlow Twins, and demonstrates how these methods are applied to Weibo text and multimodal (text‑image) representation tasks like hashtag generation and image‑text matching.
The paper describes Meituan’s retail product knowledge graph—a multi‑layered, multi‑modal system that structures billions of SKUs, attributes, and user insights using hierarchical categories, graph‑enhanced NER, semi‑supervised learning, and expert‑in‑the‑loop validation, enabling precise search, ranking, recommendation, and real‑time merchant optimization.
This article explains the concept of contrastive learning, its relationship to self‑supervised and metric learning, describes key system components and loss functions, reviews major image, NLP and multimodal models such as SimCLR, MoCo, SwAV, BYOL, and demonstrates how contrastive learning is applied to Weibo hashtag generation, similar‑post retrieval, and text‑image matching using CD‑TOM and W‑CLIP models.
The 2021 Tencent Advertising Algorithm Competition, held as the ACM MM 2021 Grand Challenge, announced the top three teams for two tracks, presented the accepted multimodal video advertising papers with detailed reviewer comments, and highlighted the significance of algorithmic innovation over ranking alone.
This article presents an in‑depth overview of Tencent Music's live‑streaming recommendation system, covering business background, system architecture, recall and ranking model designs, multi‑modal extensions, and advanced training techniques such as DSSM, ESMM, GradNorm, and CGC to improve user engagement and conversion.
This article surveys the evolution of pre‑trained models, covering the origins of transfer and self‑supervised learning, the rise of transformer‑based PTMs such as BERT and GPT, efficient architecture designs, multimodal and multilingual extensions, theoretical analyses, and future research directions for scalable and robust AI systems.
The paper describes Xianyu’s new relevance‑matching pipeline—integrating basic, text‑matching, semantic (BERT‑based dual‑tower), multimodal, and click‑graph features and fusing them with a GBDT model—which boosts search DCG@10 by 6.5 %, query satisfaction by 24 % and click interaction by over 20 % while outlining future enhancements for finer attribute matching and richer structured data.
The article shares a Tencent competition champion’s practical TensorFlow‑based video ad solution, detailing data handling, model architecture, optimization tricks, multimodal fusion techniques, and experimental observations to help participants improve performance in the 2021 Tencent Advertising Algorithm Contest.
This article describes how a UGC app tackled user and content cold‑start problems by introducing a personalized vector‑recall pipeline based on network representation learning and multimodal embeddings, detailing graph construction, GraphSAGE and GAT implementations, offline experiments, A/B test results, and future directions.
In an InfoQ interview, JD Technology senior algorithm scientist Wu Youzheng reviews the rapid advances of natural language processing in 2020—including GPT‑3, multimodal dialogue, knowledge‑enhanced pre‑training, and knowledge graphs—while outlining the most promising research directions and practical challenges for the coming year.
The presentation by Alibaba Entertainment's senior algorithm expert details the challenges of video search in the 4G/5G era and describes a comprehensive framework covering business overview, relevance and ranking, multimodal retrieval, deep semantic modeling, dataset construction, and practical deployment techniques.
The article recaps the inaugural Multimodal Natural Language Processing workshop at NLPCC 2020, highlighting breakthroughs in multimodal summarization, pre‑training models, AI‑driven art, visual‑language interaction, and multimodal dialogue systems, and showcases research from leading institutions and industry partners.
This presentation details Alibaba Entertainment's video search system, covering its business scope, user‑value metrics, a layered algorithm framework, relevance challenges, multi‑modal retrieval, deep semantic relevance techniques, model selection, asymmetric twin‑tower deployment, multi‑stage knowledge distillation, and practical effect cases.
The article presents a detailed technical overview of Youku's video search system, covering multi‑modal inputs, multi‑level element indexing, face search, cross‑level and cross‑modal retrieval, and the design and applications of a multimodal graph engine with knowledge‑graph integration.
This article introduces FashionBERT, a multimodal BERT‑based model that replaces ROI‑based image tokens with uniform image patches to overcome e‑commerce specific challenges, details its architecture, adaptive loss balancing, deployment in Alibaba search, and reports significant performance gains on public and internal datasets.
This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of modern speech recognition, covering Didi’s driver‑assistant and smart‑customer‑service applications, fundamental ASR concepts, classic GMM‑HMM methods, deep‑learning breakthroughs such as DNN‑HMM, CTC, attention‑based and transformer models, practical training tricks, signal‑processing steps, and multimodal fusion techniques.
Based on academic and industry experience, iQIYI has designed a deep semantic representation learning framework that integrates multimodal side information and deep models such as Transformers and graph neural networks, improving recall, ranking, deduplication, diversity and semantic matching across recommendation and search scenarios.
iQIYI’s deep semantic representation learning framework integrates multimodal content, knowledge graphs, and user behavior through layered data, feature, strategy, and application components, employing early, late, and hybrid fusion with Transformers, GCNs, and other deep models to deliver high‑quality embeddings that boost recommendation, search, and streaming performance across dozens of business scenarios.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of Youku's video search system, covering business background, evaluation metrics, system and algorithm frameworks, relevance and ranking feature engineering, dataset construction, semantic matching, multimodal video understanding, and practical case studies that illustrate the impact of deep learning and AI techniques on search performance.
The talk presents Alibaba’s hierarchical video‑category system and a multimodal classification pipeline—leveraging EfficientNet, NeXtVLAD fusion, attention‑dropping augmentation, and MoCo contrastive learning—that together boost cold‑start recall by 43%, improve program classification over 20%, and set the stage for larger models and advanced unsupervised methods.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of Alibaba Entertainment's category system and multimodal video classification algorithm, detailing the construction of a high‑accuracy hierarchical taxonomy, improvements to image feature extraction using EfficientNet and data augmentation, unsupervised training techniques, experimental results, practical pitfalls, and future research directions.
The article surveys iQIYI’s multimodal short‑video content‑tagging pipeline, detailing extraction‑ and generation‑based methods, challenges of open‑world tags, model evolution from rule‑based to Transformer generators, visual‑text fusion techniques, and applications such as recommendation, search, clustering, and future enhancements.
The live session presented Alibaba Entertainment’s senior algorithm expert discussing Youku’s video search business, relevance and ranking models, multimodal search challenges, and practical AI techniques, offering attendees a comprehensive view of modern video retrieval systems and their implementation.
This presentation reviews recent progress in spoken and multimodal dialogue systems, covering X‑driven architectures, task‑oriented and open‑domain approaches, NLU/DM integration, FAQ, KB/KG‑driven methods, document‑driven dialogue, and outlines remaining challenges and future research directions.
iQIYI-VID is the world’s largest multimodal video dataset for person recognition, containing 10,000 celebrity identities and 600,000 video clips drawn from millions of videos, supporting tasks such as detection, identification, attribute and audio analysis, and serving as the basis for 2018‑2019 challenges and a face‑recognition subset, thereby driving research while performance gaps remain.
The Zheey team from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications tackled the iQIYI 2019 Multimodal Video Person Recognition Challenge with a three‑layer MLP on official face features, boosting a baseline 0.8742 to 0.8949 through model fusion, quality filtering and fine‑tuning, ultimately ranking sixth and open‑sourcing their code.
iQIYI’s large‑scale hierarchical classification system combines multimodal text and image embeddings, low‑rank multimodal fusion, and a dense hierarchical multilabel network with cascade‑style weighting to assign accurate type tags to short videos, boosting production efficiency and personalized recommendation diversity.
In the iQIYI Multimodal Person Recognition Challenge, I leveraged the provided facial features, weighted face‑quality averaging, DBSCAN‑based noise clustering and a dynamic extra noise class within an iterative KNN‑to‑neural‑network training pipeline, ultimately reaching the top‑5 and open‑sourcing the full workflow on GitHub.
The WitcheR team won the 2018 iQIYI multimodal video person identification challenge by building a fast pipeline that combined a custom face‑and‑keypoint detector, ArcFace‑trained face embeddings, scene classification, and a three‑layer MLP with several training tricks, achieving a final mAP of 88.6 % and demonstrating the value of rapid idea validation and open‑sourced code for future challenges.
The article explores how chatbots require personalized dense knowledge graphs, dynamic temporal graphs, subjective emotion modeling, integration with external services, and multimodal media support, while also promoting a new NLP book and a related giveaway for readers.
