AWS Machine Learning Blog
Category: Amazon EC2
How to run distributed training using Horovod and MXNet on AWS DL Containers and AWS Deep Learning AMIs
Distributed training of large deep learning models has become an indispensable way of model training for computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) applications. Open source frameworks such as Horovod provide distributed training support to Apache MXNet, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Converting your non-distributed Apache MXNet training script to use distributed training with Horovod only […]
Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips now available in five new Regions and with improved performance
Following strong customer demand, AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to five new Regions: US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which Amazon custom-designed to provide you with the lowest cost per inference in the cloud and lower barriers […]
Facebook uses Amazon EC2 to evaluate the Deepfake Detection Challenge
In October 2019, AWS announced that it was working with Facebook, Microsoft, and the Partnership on AI on the first Deepfake Detection Challenge. Deepfake algorithms are the same as the underlying technology that has given us realistic animation effects in movies and video games. Unfortunately, those same algorithms have been used by bad actors to […]
AWS to offer NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances
Tens of thousands of customers rely on AWS for building machine learning (ML) applications. Customers like Airbnb and Pinterest use AWS to optimize their search recommendations, Lyft and Toyota Research Institute to develop their autonomous vehicle programs, and Capital One and Intuit to build and deploy AI-powered customer assistants. AWS offers the broadest and deepest […]
Train Deep Learning Models on GPUs using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
You’ve collected your datasets, designed your deep neural network architecture, and coded your training routines. You are now ready to run training on a large dataset for multiple epochs on a powerful GPU instance. You learn that the Amazon EC2 P3 instances with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs are ideal for compute-intensive deep learning training jobs, […]
Scalable multi-node deep learning training using GPUs in the AWS Cloud
A key barrier to the wider adoption of deep neural networks on industrial-size datasets is the time and resources required to train them. AlexNet, which won the 2012 ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition (ILSVRC) and kicked off the current boom in deep neural networks, took nearly a week to train across the 1.2-million-image, 1000-category […]
Toyota Research Institute accelerates safe automated driving with deep learning at a global scale on AWS
Vehicles with self-driving technology can bring many benefits to society. One of the top priorities at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is to apply the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) to help Toyota produce cars that are safer, more accessible, and more environmentally friendly. To help TRI achieve their goals, they turned to deep learning […]