Clément Delangue — The Power of the Open Source Community

Weights & Biases · Beginner ·🧠 Large Language Models ·4y ago
Clem explains the virtuous cycles behind the creation and success of Hugging Face, and shares his thoughts on where NLP is heading. --- Clément Delangue is co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the AI community building the future. Hugging Face started as an open source NLP library and has quickly grown into a commercial product used by over 5,000 companies. Connect with Clem: 📍 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClementDelangue 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clementdelangue/ --- 🌟 Transcript: http://wandb.me/gd-clement-delangue 🌟 ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 Sneak peek and intro 0:56 What is Hugging Face? 4:15 The success of Hugging Face Transformers 7:53 Open source and virtuous cycles 10:37 Working with both TensorFlow and PyTorch 13:20 The "Write With Transformer" project 14:36 Transfer learning in NLP 16:43 BERT and DistilBERT 22:33 GPT 26:32 The power of the open source community 29:40 Current applications of NLP 35:15 The Turing Test and conversational AI 41:19 Why speech is an upcoming field within NLP 43:44 The human challenges of machine learning Links Discussed: 📍 Write With Transformer, Hugging Face Transformer's text generation demo: https://transformer.huggingface.co/ 📍 "Attention Is All You Need" (Vaswani et al., 2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 📍 EleutherAI and GPT-Neo: https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo] 📍 Rasa, open source conversational AI: https://rasa.com/ 📍 Roblox article on BERT: https://blog.roblox.com/2020/05/scaled-bert-serve-1-billion-daily-requests-cpus/ --- 🎙 Get our podcasts on these platforms: Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify Google: http://wandb.me/gd_google YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube Join our community of ML practitioners where we host AMAs, share interesting projects and meet other people working in Deep Learning: http://wandb.me/fs Check out Fully Connected, which features curated machine learning reports by researche
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2 1. Build Your First Machine Learning Model
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3 Intro to ML: Course Overview
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4 2. Multi-Layer Perceptrons
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5 3. Convolutional Neural Networks
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6 Weights & Biases at OpenAI
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7 Why Experiment Tracking is Crucial to OpenAI
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8 4. Autoencoders
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9 5. Sentiment Analysis
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10 6. Recurrent Neural Networks [RNNs]
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11 7. Text Generation using LSTMs and GRUs
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12 8. Text Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
8. Text Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
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13 9. Hybrid LSTMs [Long Short-Term Memory]
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14 Toyota Research Institute on Experiment Tracking with Weights & Biases
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15 Weights and Biases - Developer Tools for Deep Learning
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16 Introducing Weights & Biases
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17 10. Seq2Seq Models
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18 11. Transfer Learning for Domain-Specific Image Classification with Small Datasets
11. Transfer Learning for Domain-Specific Image Classification with Small Datasets
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19 12. One-shot learning for teaching neural networks to classify objects never seen before
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20 13. Speech Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks in Keras/TensorFlow
13. Speech Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks in Keras/TensorFlow
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21 14. Data Augmentation | Keras
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22 15. Batch Size and Learning Rate in CNNs
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23 Applied Deep Learning Fellowship Overview and Project Selection with Josh Tobin (2019)
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24 Grading Rubric for AI Applications with Sergey Karayev  (2019)
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25 16. Video Frame Prediction using CNNs and LSTMs (2019)
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26 Image to LaTeX - Applied Deep Learning Fellowship (2019)
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27 17.  Build and Deploy an Emotion Classifier (2019)
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28 Applied Deep Learning - Data Management with Josh Tobin (2019)
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29 Snorkel: Programming Training Data with Paroma Varma of Stanford University (2019)
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30 Applied Deep Learning - Troubleshooting and Debugging with Josh Tobin (2019)
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31 Troubleshooting and Iterating ML Models with Lee Redden (2019)
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32 Designing a Machine Learning Project with Neal Khosla (2019)
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33 Lukas Beiwald on ML Tools and Experiment Management (2019)
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34 Building Machine Learning Teams with Josh Tobin (2019)
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35 Pieter Abeel on Potential Deep Learning Research Directions  (2019)
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36 Testing and Deployment of Deep Learning Models with Josh Tobin (2019)
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37 Five Lessons for Team-Oriented Research with Peter Welder (2019)
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38 Applied Deep Learning - Rosanne Liu on AI Research (2019)
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39 Making the Mid-career Leap from Urban Design to Deep Learning/Data Science
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40 Organizing ML projects — W&B walkthrough (2020)
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41 Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning in Production for Robots
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42 Nicolas Koumchatzky — Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars
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43 My experiments with Reinforcement Learning with Jariullah Safi
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44 Applications of Machine Learning to COVID-19 Research with Isaac Godfried
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45 Testing Machine Learning Models with Eric Schles
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46 How Linear Algebra is not like Algebra with Charles Frye
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47 Predicting Protein Structures using Deep Learning with Jonathan King
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48 Rachael Tatman — Conversational AI and Linguistics
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49 Reformer by Han Lee
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50 Sequence Models with Pujaa Rajan
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51 GitHub Actions & Machine Learning Workflows with Hamel Husain
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52 Look Mom, No Indices! Vector Calculus with the Fréchet Derivative by Charles Frye
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53 Jack Clark — Building Trustworthy AI Systems
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54 Surprising Utility of Surprise: Why ML Uses Negative Log Probabilities - Charles Frye
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55 Track your machine learning experiments locally, with W&B Local - Chris Van Pelt
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56 Antipatterns in open source research code with Jariullah Safi
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57 Attention for time series forecasting & COVID predictions - Isaac Godfried
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58 Made with ML - Goku Mohandas
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59 Angela & Danielle — Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots
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Sneak peek and intro
0:56 What is Hugging Face?
4:15 The success of Hugging Face Transformers
7:53 Open source and virtuous cycles
10:37 Working with both TensorFlow and PyTorch
13:20 The "Write With Transformer" project
14:36 Transfer learning in NLP
16:43 BERT and DistilBERT
22:33 GPT
26:32 The power of the open source community
29:40 Current applications of NLP
35:15 The Turing Test and conversational AI
41:19 Why speech is an upcoming field within NLP
43:44 The human challenges of machine learning
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