Applied-Ai

Applied Ai (Papers, Articles & Videos, in production with results)

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Figuring out how to implement your ML project? Learn from How other organizations have done it in past?:

• How problem is framed (e.g., personalization as recsys vs. search vs. sequences)
• What machine learning techniques worked (and sometimes, what didn't)
• Why it works, the science behind it with research, literature, and references
• What real-world results were achieved (so you can better assess ROI)

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Content Table

1.Practices

2. Failures

3. Data Quality

4. Data Engineering

5. Classification

6. Regression

7. Computer Vision

8. Natural Language Processing

9. Sequence Modelling

10. Optimization

11. Validation and A/B Testing

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Practices

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Practical Recommendations for Gradient-Based Training of Deep Architectures	Paper	Yoshua Bengio
Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt	Paper Paper	Google
Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering	--	Google
On Challenges in Machine Learning Model Management	--	Amazon
Machine Learning in production: the Booking.com approach	--	Booking
150 Successful Machine Learning Models: 6 Lessons Learned at Booking.com	Paper	Booking
Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department	--	Stitch Fix
Beware the Data Science Pin Factory: The Power of the Full-Stack Data Science Generalist	--	Stitch Fix

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Failures

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
160k+ High School Students Will Graduate Only If a Model Allows Them to	--	International Baccalaureate
When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind	--	Google
An Algorithm That ‘Predicts’ Criminality Based on a Face Sparks a Furor	--	Harrisburg University

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Data Quality

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Monitoring Data Quality at Scale with Statistical Modeling	--	Uber
An Approach to Data Quality for Netflix Personalization Systems	--	Netflix
Automating Large-Scale Data Quality Verification	Paper	Amazon
Meet Hodor — Gojek’s Upstream Data Quality Tool	--	Gojek
Reliable and Scalable Data Ingestion at Airbnb	--	Airbnb

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Data Engineering

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Zipline: Airbnb’s Machine Learning Data Management Platform	--	Airbnb
Sputnik: Airbnb’s Apache Spark Framework for Data Engineering	--	Airbnb
Introducing Feast: an open source feature store for machine learning	Code	Gojek
Feast: Bridging ML Models and Data	--	Gojek
Amundsen — Lyft’s Data Discovery & Metadata Engine	--	Lyft
Open Sourcing Amundsen: A Data Discovery And Metadata Platform	Code	Lyft
Metacat: Making Big Data Discoverable and Meaningful at Netflix	--	Netflix
How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify	--	Spotify

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Classification

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
High-Precision Phrase-Based Document Classification on a Modern Scale	Paper	LinkedIn
Chimera: Large-Scale Classification using Machine Learning, Rules, and Crowdsourcing	Paper	WalmartLabs
Large-scale Item Categorization for e-Commerce	Paper	DianPing eBay
Large-Scale Item Categorization in e-Commerce Using Multiple Recurrent Neural Networks	Paper	NAVER
Categorizing Products at Scale	--	Shopify
Learning to Diagnose with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks	Paper	Google
Discovering and Classifying In-app Message Intent at Airbnb	--	Airbnb
How We Built the Good First Issues Feature	--	GitHub
Teaching Machines to Triage Firefox Bugs	--	Mozilla
Testing Firefox More Efficiently with Machine Learning	--	Mozilla
Using ML to Subtype Patients Receiving Digital Mental Health Interventions	Paper	Microsoft
Prediction of Advertiser Churn for Google AdWords	Paper	Google

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Regression

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Using Machine Learning to Predict Value of Homes On Airbnb	--	Airbnb
Using Machine Learning to Predict the Value of Ad Requests	--	Twitter
Open-Sourcing Riskquant, a Library for Quantifying Risk	Code	NetFlix

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Computer Vision

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Categorizing Listing Photos at Airbnb	--	Airbnb
Amenity Detection and Beyond — New Frontiers of Computer Vision at Airbnb	--	Airbnb
Powered by AI: Advancing product understanding and building new shopping experiences	--	Facebook
Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning	--	Dropbox
How we Improved Computer Vision Metrics by More Than 5% Only by Cleaning Labelling Errors	--	Deepomatic
A Neural Weather Model for Eight-Hour Precipitation Forecasting	Paper	Google
Machine Learning-based Damage Assessment for Disaster Relief	Paper	Google
RepNet: Counting Repetitions in Videos	Paper	Google
Converting Text to Images for Product Discovery	Paper	Amazon
How Disney uses PyTorch for Animated Character Recognition	--	Disney
Image Captioning as an Assistive Technology	Video	IBM

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Natural Language Processing

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Abusive Language Detection in Online User Content	Paper	Yahoo
How Natural Language Processing Helps LinkedIn Members Get Support Easily	--	LinkedIn
Building Smart Replies for Member Messages	--	LinkedIn
Smart Reply: Automated Response Suggestion for Email	Paper	Google
SmartReply for YouTube Creators	--	Google
Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables	Paper	Google
A Scalable Approach to Reducing Gender Bias in Google Translate	--	Google
Assistive AI Makes Replying Easier	--	Microsoft
AI Advances to Better Detect Hate Speech	--	Facebook
A State-of-the-Art Open Source Chatbot	Paper	Facebook
A Highly Efficient, Real-Time Text-to-Speech System Deployed on CPUs	--	Facebook
Goal-Oriented End-to-End Conversational Models with Profile Features in a Real-World Setting	Paper	Amazon
How Gojek Uses NLP to Name Pickup Locations at Scale	--	GoJek
Give Me Jeans not Shoes: How BERT Helps Us Deliver What Clients Want	--	Stitch Fix
The State-of-the-art Open-Domain Chatbot in Chinese and English	Paper	Baidu
Deep Learning to Translate Between Programming Languages	Paper	Facebook
PEGASUS: A State-of-the-Art Model for Abstractive Text Summarization	Paper) (Code	Google

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Sequence Modelling

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
Recommending Complementary Products in E-Commerce Push Notifications with Mixture Models	Paper	Alibaba
Practice on Long Sequential User Behavior Modeling for Click-Through Rate Prediction	Paper	Alibaba
Search-based User Interest Modeling with Lifelong Sequential Behavior Data for CTR Prediction	Paper	Alibaba
Learning to Diagnose with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks	Paper	Google
Deep Learning for Understanding Consumer Histories	Paper	Zalando
Continual Prediction of Notification Attendance with Classical and Deep Network Approaches	Paper	Telefonica
Using Recurrent Neural Network Models for Early Detection of Heart Failure Onset	Paper	Sutter Health
Doctor AI: Predicting Clinical Events via Recurrent Neural Networks	Paper	Sutter Health

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Optimization

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
How Trip Inferences and Machine Learning Optimize Delivery Times on Uber Eats	--	Uber
Next-Generation Optimization for Dasher Dispatch at DoorDash	--	DoorDash
Matchmaking in Lyft Line (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)	--	Lyft
The Data and Science behind GrabShare Carpooling	Help me in Updating Paper	Grab

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Validation and A/B Testing

Topic	Paper / Article / Video	Company
The Reusable Holdout: Preserving Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis	Paper	Google
Detecting Interference: An A/B Test of A/B Tests	--	LinkedIn
Building Inclusive Products Through A/B Testing	Paper	LinkedIn
Experimenting to Solve Cramming	--	Twitter
Announcing a New Framework for Designing Optimal Experiments with Pyro	Paper Paper	Uber
Enabling 10x More Experiments with Traveloka Experiment Platform	--	Traveloka
Large scale experimentation at StitchFix	Paper	Stitch Fix
Modeling Conversion Rates and Saving Millions Using Kaplan-Meier and Gamma Distributions	Code	Better