Machine Learning Research at Apple

https://machinelearning.apple.com

by tosh • 6 years ago

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lavoiems• 6 years ago

Interesting. I thought that apple mostly did closed research, yet they are publishing in public conference.

Lastweek• 6 years ago

guys, is this the first time apple is involved with academic papers?

aratno• 6 years ago

Nope, they've been sharing their research more widely in the last few years. Here's an example from 2018, in a different area of research: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p540-shraer.pdf

machello13• 6 years ago

No, the site links to papers that go back to 2017.

FlyingLawnmower• 6 years ago

Hats off to people like Carlos Guestrin & John Giannandrea, who seem to have pushed a cultural shift through Apple. I didn't think I'd see a site like this a few years ago, based on Apple's historic reputation of strongly discouraging employees from publishing research.

innagadadavida• 6 years ago

Totally respect what they have achieved, one thing to keep in mind is to structure the incentives so that researchers don't just focus on h-scores and the like but also ship features that can transform user's experiences.

redredrobot2• 6 years ago

Not to take away from the people who worked hard to shift the culture (which is always hard at a large company), but I saw the same shift happen at Amazon and it came down to a simple fact - it's very hard to recruit and keep the best talent if you don't publish. You don't build ML reputation and the best researchers often don't want to work somewhere where they can't add papers to their resume.

DrNuke• 6 years ago

Not sure about this: a lot of interesting work is just hidden because of NDAs, commercial IP, military, etc. You will never see anything made public until necessary and just the minimum amount required.

sirpunch• 6 years ago

Amazon also launched their own portal for showcasing their publications. https://www.amazon.science/

unitedScialMdia2• 6 years ago

I can't imagine too many nerds that would willingly work for Apple.

I've turned down military contractor work despite it paying better than my current job.

Being able to contribute to society goes a long way.

aantix• 6 years ago

"You don’t become a man until your father dies."

option• 6 years ago

I remember ICML 2015 in Beijing when I was the only one (I suspect there was another guy but apparently he even had to hide his affiliation) from Apple at the conference. Not allowed to officially/publicly to talk about what I do. Went only because of networking and to hire people. Times change slowly there.

person_of_color• 6 years ago

Ian Goodfellow is at Apple but doesn’t appear in any of these papers. Interesting.

Is he on something too secret to reveal? Leading the SDC effort? The Karpathy of Apple?

cyrksoft• 6 years ago

I think he joined last year, not sure when. Maybe that has something to do with this.

EDIT: He joined in March 2019 as Director of the Special Projects Group.

moralestapia• 6 years ago

The open stance on R&D that the industry is currently adopting is good for everybody involved. I hope it will become the norm someday.

Journals and other centralized entities that regulate access to science should wane and disappear, the sooner the better.

Angostura2• 6 years ago

Journals and other centralized entities that regulate access to science should wane and disappear, the sooner the better.

To the extent that other mechanisms are in place to to peer review research and curate quality, yes. And yes I'm aware that the current system is far from perfect.

lern_too_spel• 6 years ago

Discussed 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14804018

saagarjha2• 6 years ago

Different content. Back then it was a handful of cherry-picked publications expanded into articles, now it seems like the page is an overt advertisement of Apple’s Machine Learning efforts.

hunvreus• 6 years ago

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nojvek• 6 years ago

I mean Apple would have to be open eventually right? To attract and retain talent, if everyone else is doing it?

It's like Microsoft under Satya Nadella, really understood that Open Source is a way to actually win developers, rather than Steve Ballmers "Developers! Developers!" chant that was just marketing speak.

So if you want to be in the same league as Deep Mind, MSR, FAIR, Google Research, then you gotta play like them.

Machine Learning Research at Apple

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