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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Slow But Steady Progress

Homomorphic encryption allows computation directly on encrypted data, an approach that has so far been plagued by poor peformance compared to operations on unencrypted data. But it's getting there, Pure AI editors explain.

Understanding Variational Autoencoders – for Mere Mortals

Here's an explanation of variational autoencoders -- one of the fundamental types of deep neural networks -- used for synthetic data generation.

Comparing 4 ML Classification Techniques: Logistic Regression, Perceptron, Support Vector Machine, and Neural Networks

Learn about four of the most commonly used machine learning classification techniques, used to predict the value of a variable that can take on discrete values.

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New Relic Launches AI for DevOps (AIOps)

New Relic unveiled a new suite of artificial intelligence- and machine learning-based on-call DevOps capabilities Tuesday.

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Researchers Release Open Source Counterfactual Machine Learning Library

Microsoft researchers released an open source code library for generating machine learning counterfactuals, used for scenarios such as loan applications. We spoke with Dr. Amit Sharma, one of the project leaders, and asked him to explain what machine learning counterfactuals are and why they're important.

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Researchers Explore Deep Neural Memory for Natural Language Tasks

Researchers at Microsoft have demonstrated a new type of computer memory that outperformed many existing systems when applied to a well-known benchmark set of natural language processing (NLP) problems. The memory architecture is called metalearned neural memory (MNM), or more generally, deep neural memory.

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Understanding Neural Word Embeddings

The data scientists at Microsoft Research explain how word embeddings are used in natural language processing -- an area of artificial intelligence/machine learning that has seen many significant advances recently -- at a medium level of abstraction, with code snippets and examples.

Neurosymbolic AI Advances State of the Art on Math Word Problems

Researchers at Microsoft have demonstrated a new technique called Neurosymbolic AI which has shown promising results when applied to difficult scenarios such as algebra problems stated in words. The PureAI editors were given a sneak peek at the draft of a research paper that describes the work.

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Understanding LSTM Neural Networks – for Mere Mortals

Learn about LSTM (long, short-term memory) neural networks, which have become a standard tool for creating practical prediction systems. Specifically, this article explains what type of problems LSTMs can and cannot solve, describes how LSTMs work, and discusses issues related to implementing an LSTM prediction system in practice.

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