ML Education at Uber: Frameworks Inspired by Engineering Principles

Introduction

At Uber, millions of machine learning (ML) predictions are made every second, and hundreds of applied scientists, engineers, product managers, and researchers work on ML solutions daily. 

Uber wins by scaling machine learning. We recognize org-wide that a

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DeepETA: How Uber Predicts Arrival Times Using Deep Learning

At Uber, magical customer experiences depend on accurate arrival time predictions (ETAs). We use ETAs to calculate fares, estimate pickup times, match riders to drivers, plan deliveries, and more. Traditional routing engines compute ETAs by dividing up the road network

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Project RADAR: Intelligent Early Fraud Detection System with Humans in the Loop

Introduction

Uber is a worldwide marketplace of services, processing thousands of monetary transactions every second. As a marketplace, Uber takes on all of the risks associated with payment processing. Uber partners who use the marketplace to provide services are paid

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Capacity Recommendation Engine: Throughput and Utilization Based Predictive Scaling

Introduction

Capacity is a key component of reliability. Uber’s services require enough resources in order to handle daily peak traffic and to support our different kinds of business units. These services are deployed across different cloud platforms and data centers

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Introducing Neuropod, Uber ATG’s Open Source Deep Learning Inference Engine

At Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), we leverage deep learning to provide safe and reliable self-driving technology. Using deep learning, we can build and train models to handle tasks such as processing sensor input, identifying objects, and predicting where

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Inside Uber ATG’s Data Mining Operation: Identifying Real Road Scenarios at Scale for Machine Learning

How did the pedestrian cross the road?

Contrary to popular belief, sometimes the answer isn’t as simple as “to get to the other side.” To bring safe, reliable self-driving vehicles (SDVs) to the streets at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG)

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