Baidu Research

A Breakthrough in Speech Technology: Baidu Launched SMLTA, the First Streaming Multi-layer Truncated Attention Model for Large-scale Online Speech Recognition

On 16 January 2019, Baidu announced four major breakthroughs in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Among them, the most noticeable one is t...

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Jan 21st，2019
Baidu Research Establishes an Advisory Board, Holds 1st Board Meeting in Silicon Valley

Baidu Research brings together more world-renowned scientists to jointly advance artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for the future...

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Nov 15th，2018
Baidu Research Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation

STACL, or Simultaneous Translation with Anticipation and Controllable Latency, is the first simultaneous machine translation system with ant...

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Oct 24th，2018
ClariNet: Parallel Wave Generation in End-to-End Text-to-Speech

ClariNet, the first end-to-end TTS model, directly converts text to a speech waveform in a single neural network. Its fully convolutional ar...

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Jul 20th，2018
The Association for Computational Linguistics Appoints Baidu’s Haifeng Wang as the Founding Chair of the Newly Launched Asia-Pacific Chapter

Today, at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Haifeng Wang, Baidu’s...

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Jul 17th，2018
Using Deep Learning to Help Pathologists Find Tumors

While there are various methods to diagnose cancer, a pathology review of biopsied tissues is often considered the gold standard....

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Jun 18th，2018
Experimental Evaluation of Mixed Precision Training for End to End Applications

Experimental Evaluation of Mixed Precision Training for End-to-End Language Modeling. On NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU, 4.1X performance improvement...

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May 15th，2018
Language Acquisition and One-Shot Concept Learning Through Conversational Interactions

Building intelligent agents that can communicate naturally with and learn effectively from humans through language is incredibly valuable to...

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May 15th，2018
MLPerf: A New Benchmark for Deep Learning Models

In conjunction with a consortium of researchers and engineers, we have released a new framework-level benchmark called MLPerf. MLPerf measur...

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May 2nd，2018
Neural Voice Cloning with a Few Samples

At Baidu Research, we aim to revolutionize human-machine interfaces with the latest artificial intelligence techniques. Our Deep Voice proje...

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Feb 20th，2018
Baidu Research Showcased at Top Artificial Intelligence Conferences

The AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) is one of the world’s premiere artificial conferences, with annual su...

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Jan 31st，2018
Baidu Research Announces the Hiring of Three World-Renowned AI Scientists

Today, we are excited to announce the hiring of three world-renowned artificial intelligence scientists, Dr. Kenneth Church, Dr. Jun Huan an...

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Jan 18th，2018
PaddlePaddle Fluid: Elastic Deep Learning on Kubernetes

Two open source communities—PaddlePaddle, the deep learning framework originated in Baidu, and Kubernetes®, the most famous containerized...

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Dec 12th，2017
Deep Learning Scaling is Predictable, Empirically

Our digital world and data are growing faster today than any time in the past—even faster than our computing power. Deep learning helps us...

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Dec 7th，2017
Deep Speech 3: Even more end-to-end speech recognition

Accurate speech recognition systems are vital to many businesses, whether they are a virtual assistant taking commands, video reviews that u...

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Oct 31st，2017
Deep Voice 3: 2000-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech

Today, we are excited to announce Deep Voice 3, the latest milestone of Baidu Research’s Deep Voice project. Deep Voice 3 teaches machines...

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Oct 24th，2017
Mixed Precision Training

In this blog post, we introduce a new technique to train deep learning models titled, “Mixed Precision Training”. In this joint work with...

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Oct 11th，2017
Globally Normalized Reader

We present the Globally Normalized Reader - an approach to extractive question answering with the same performance and significantly lower c...

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Sep 26th，2017
A Spatial-Temporal Modeling Framework for Large-scale Video Understanding

By Xiao Liu and Shilei Wen This blog discusses a novel approach to video recognition and classification that won Baidu first place at the Ac...

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Aug 21st，2017
Baidu Research Announces Next Generation Open Source Deep Learning Benchmark Tool

Baidu Research today unveiled the next generation of DeepBench, the open source deep learning benchmark that now includes measurement for in...

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Jun 28th，2017
Learning to Speak via Interaction

In early April, our team at Baidu Research successfully taught an AI agent to navigate a virtual maze using natural language command issued...

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Jun 7th，2017
Deep Voice 2: Multi-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech

In February, Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab published Deep Voice 1, a system for generating synthetic human voices entirely with deep neural ne...

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May 24th，2017
Deep Speaker: an End-to-End System for Large-Scale Speaker Recognition

Speaker recognition algorithms seek to determine the identity of a speaker from audio. Two common recognition tasks are verification (determ...

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May 9th，2017
An AI agent with human-like language acquisition in a virtual environment

Despite tremendous progress, artificial intelligence is still limited in many ways. For example, in computer games, if an AI agent is not pr...

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Mar 29th，2017