My 4 year old nephew Yali is very into Pokemon right now. He has multiple Pokemon toys and a few TCG (training card game) cards. (more…)

Experts at the Table: It's not as accurate as simulation, but it's a lot faster. (more…)

This post is authored by Miguel Fierro, Data Scientist, Mathew Salvaris, Data Scientist, Guolin Ke, Associate Researcher, and Tao Wu, Principal Data Science Manager, all at Microsoft. (more…)

We analyze the growth of dataset sizes used in machine learning for natural language processing and computer vision, and extrapolate these using two methods; using the historical growth rate and estimating the compute-optimal dataset size for future predi... (more…)

Machine learning has achieved tremendous success in a variety of domains in recent years. However, a lot of these success stories have been in places where the training and the testing distributions are extremely similar to each other. In everyday situati... (more…)