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Tag: Apache MXNet

Benchmarking Training Time for CNN-based Detectors with Apache MXNet

This is a guest post by Cambron Carter, Director of Engineering, and Iris Fu, Computer Vision Scientist at GumGum. In their own words, “GumGum is an artificial intelligence company with deep expertise in computer vision, which helps their customers unlock the value of images and videos produced daily across the web, social media, and broadcast […]

Apache MXNet Release Candidate Introduces Support for Apple’s Core ML and Keras v1.2

Apache MXNet is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Last week, the MXNet community introduced a release candidate for MXNet v0.11.0, its first as an incubating project, and the community is now voting on whether to accept this candidate as a release. It includes the following major feature enhancements: A Core […]

Estimating the Location of Images Using Apache MXNet and Multimedia Commons Dataset on AWS EC2

This is a guest post by Jaeyoung Choi of the International Computer Science Institute and Kevin Li of the University of California, Berkeley. This project demonstrates how academic researchers can leverage our AWS Cloud Credits for Research Program to support their scientific breakthroughs. Modern mobile devices can automatically assign geo-coordinates to images when you take pictures of […]

The AWS Deep Learning AMI for Ubuntu is Now Available with CUDA 8, Ubuntu 16, and the Latest Versions of Deep Learning Frameworks

The AWS Deep Learning AMI lets you build and scale deep learning applications in the cloud, at any scale. The AMI comes pre-installed with popular deep learning frameworks, to let you to train sophisticated, custom AI models, experiment with new algorithms, or to learn new skills and techniques. The latest release of the AWS Deep […]

Train Neural Machine Translation Models with Sockeye

Have you ever wondered how you can use machine learning (ML) for translation? With our new framework, Sockeye, you can model machine translation (MT) and other sequence-to-sequence tasks. Sockeye, which is built on Apache MXNet, does most of the heavy lifting for building, training, and running state-of-the-art sequence-to-sequence models. In natural language processing (NLP), many […]

Updated AWS Deep Learning AMIs with Apache MXNet 0.10 and TensorFlow 1.1 Now Available

You can now use Apache MXNet v0.10 and TensorFlow v1.1 with the AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Amazon Linux and Ubuntu. Apache MXNet announced version 0.10, available at http://mxnet.io, with significant improvements to documentation and tutorials including updated installation guides for running MXNet on various operating systems and environments, such as NVIDIA’s Jetson TX2. In […]

AWS and NVIDIA Expand Deep Learning Partnership at GTC 2017

This year at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, AWS and NVIDIA partnered on multiple initiatives. The first is an exciting new Volta-based GPU instance that we think will completely change the face of the AI developer world through a 3x speedup on LSTM training. Second, we are announcing plans to train 100,000+ developers through the Deep […]

Join AWS User Group Dublin for an Evening of AI & Deep Learning

  Join Julien Simon, Principal Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, on May 9 for an evening of AI and Deep Learning hosted by the AWS User Group Dublin. The event will feature Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition. Julien will take participants on a journey through Deep Learning with AWS covering AI theory to […]