Docstrings in open source Python

Dmitry Berdov gensim, Open Source, Student Incubator

Hi everyone, my name is Dmitry Berdov, I’m a graduate student at the Ural Federal University, now working in QA testing (automation) sphere. I had no experience with writing documentation before joining the RARE Incubator, where my task has been to refactor and improve the poor state of Gensim docs. Now, after several months of shooting myself hard in the ...
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Machine learning mega-benchmark: GPU providers (part 2)

Shiva Manne Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Open Source 14 Comments

We had recently published a large-scale machine learning benchmark using word2vec, comparing several popular hardware providers and ML frameworks in pragmatic aspects such as their cost, ease of use, stability, scalability and performance. Since that benchmark only looked at the CPUs, we also ran an analogous ML benchmark focused on GPUs.

Counting Efficiently with Bounter pt. 2: CountMinSketch

Filip Štefaňák Machine Learning, Open Source 2 Comments

In my previous post on the new open source Python Bounter library we discussed how we can use its HashTable to quickly count approximate item frequencies in very large item sequences. Now we turn our attention to the second algorithm in Bounter, CountMinSketch (CMS), which is also optimized in C for top performance.

Implementing Poincaré Embeddings

Jayant Jain gensim, Open Source 10 Comments

I have been working on implementing a model called Poincaré embeddings over the last month or so. The model is from an interesting paper by Facebook AI Research – Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations [1]. This post describes the model at a relatively high level of abstraction, and the detailed technical challenges faced in the process of implementing it.

New download API for pretrained NLP models and datasets in Gensim

Chaitali Saini Datasets, gensim, Open Source, Student Incubator 4 Comments

There’s no shortage of websites and repositories that aggregate various machine learning datasets and pre-trained models (Kaggle, UCI MLR, DeepDive, individual repos like gloVe, FastText, Quora, blogs, individual university pages…). The only problem is, they all use widely different formats, cover widely different use-cases and go out of service with worrying regularity. For this reason, we decided to include free …

Machine learning benchmarks: Hardware providers (part 1)

Shiva Manne Machine Learning, Open Source, Student Incubator 13 Comments

The rise of machine learning as a discipline brings new demands for number crunching and computing power. With easily accessible and cheap hardware resources, one has to pick the right platform to run the experiments and model training on. Should you use Amazon’s AWS EC2 instances? Or go with IBM’s Softlayer, Google’s Compute Engine, Microsoft’s Azure? How about a real …

The Mummy Effect: Bridging the gap between academia and industry (PyData keynote)

Radim Řehůřek Machine Learning, Open Source, Student Incubator

Last month, I gave a keynote at PyData Warsaw about the existing (and growing) gap between academia and industry, specifically when it comes to machine learning / data science. This is a topic close to my heart, since we’ve operated in that no-man’s land where academia and industry collide for a living for 7 years now. Between running our Student …

Counting Efficiently with Bounter pt. 1: HashTable

Filip Štefaňák Machine Learning, Open Source Leave a Comment

Have you heard about the new open source Bounter Python library in town? In case you can’t wait to use it in practice but are wary of its “frequency estimation”, and what kind of results you can expect, this series of blog posts will help you develop the right intuition. It is split into two parts, one for each of …