Announcing a New Framework for Designing Optimal Experiments with Pyro

Experimentation is one of humanity’s principal tools for learning about our complex world. Advances in knowledge from medicine to psychology require a rigorous, iterative process in which we formulate hypotheses and test them by collecting and analyzing new evidence. At

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Enhanced POET: Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning through Unbounded Invention of Learning Challenges and their Solutions

Jeff Clune and Kenneth Stanley were co-senior authors on this work and our associated research paper.

Machine learning (ML) powers many technologies and services that underpin Uber’s platforms, and we invest in advancing fundamental ML research and engaging with

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Under the Hood of Uber ATG’s Machine Learning Infrastructure and Versioning Control Platform for Self-Driving Vehicles

As Uber experienced exponential growth over the last few years, now supporting 14 million trips each day, our engineers proved they could build for scale. That value extends to other areas, including Uber ATG (Advanced Technologies Group) and its quest

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Building a Backtesting Service to Measure Model Performance at Uber-scale

With operations in over 700 cities worldwide and gross bookings of over $16 billion in Q3 2019 alone, Uber leverages forecast models to ensure accurate financial planning and budget management. These models, derived from data science practices and platformed for

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Uber AI in 2019: Advancing Mobility with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence powers many of the technologies and services underpinning Uber’s platform, allowing engineering and data science teams to make informed decisions that help improve user experiences for products across our lines of business. 

At the forefront of this effort

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Generative Teaching Networks: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search by Learning to Generate Synthetic Training Data

Kenneth O. Stanley and Jeff Clune served as co-senior authors of this article and its corresponding paper.

At Uber, many of the hard problems we work on can benefit from machine learning, such as improving safety, improving ETAs,

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Food Discovery with Uber Eats: Using Graph Learning to Power Recommendations

The Uber Eats app serves as a portal to more than 320,000 restaurant-partners in over 500 cities globally across 36 countries. In order to make the user experience more seamless and easy-to-navigate, we show users the dishes, restaurants, and cuisines

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