Plug and Play Language Model, introduced by Uber AI Labs, gives NLP practitioners the flexibility to plug in one or more simple attribute models into a large, unconditional language model.

We publish our research results to the broader scientific community. This year, Uber is presenting 11 papers at the NeurIPS 2019 conference! We are also sponsoring WiML and Black in AI.

Uber AI's graph neural network-based method is used for improving the quality of dish and restaurant recommendations in Uber Eats. The article details the algorithm, the experiments, and the pipeline, and also shows examples of how they all work together in production to improve the user experience.

To facilitate the best end-to-end experience possible for users, Uber is committed to making customer support easier and more accessible. Working toward this goal, Uber’s Customer Obsession team leverages five different customer-agent communication channels powered by an in-house platform that integrates customer support ticket context for easy issue resolution.

Uber uses convolutional neural networks in many domains that could potentially involve coordinate transforms, from designing self-driving vehicles to automating street sign detection to build maps and maximizing the efficiency of spatial movements in the Uber Marketplace.

Uber launches Beacon V2, a piece of hardware for Uber drivers, that implements on-device sensor fusion using signals from GNSS, IMU, and barometer to improve location accuracy.

Hypothesis-gufunc is an extension to hypothesis to aid in unit testing broadcasting and matrix input numpy/torch functions.

We develop a new measure called Loss Change Allocation (LCA) to better understand the training process. LCA measures how much each parameter helps decrease (or increase) the loss at every iteration. It is able to reveal broader patterns such as how training is very noisy, some layers hurt, and micro-learning is synchronized across layers.

Ludwig 0.2 is released with a host of new functionalities and features. The major ones are the integration with Comet.ml, the addition of BERT among text encoders, the implementation of audio/ speech, H3 (geospatial) and date (temporal) features, substantial improvements on the visualization API, and the inclusion of a serving functionality.

Uber AI Labs releases EvoGrad, a library for catalyzing gradient-based evolution research, and Evolvability ES, a new meta-learning algorithm enabled by this library.