“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”  -Walter Elliot

“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

What is Bayesian machine learning? To answer this question, it is helpful to first take a look at what happens in typical machine learning procedures (even non-Bayesian ones). In nearly all cases,...

We mentioned in a previous post how excited we are that eight papers by Petuum authors were accepted to NeurIPS 2018, the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. They’ll be...

Crossposted on the Texar blog. Sequence generation is a ubiquitous problem in many applications, such as machine translation, text summarization, image captioning, and so forth. Recently, we...

By Seojin Bang We have witnessed the rise of sophisticated, autonomous task-performing systems such as self-driving cars, product recommendations, language translators, and targeted...

By Christy Y. Li, Xiaodan Liang, Zhiting Hu, and Eric P. Xing

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is well-known as a regional hub of talent and innovation. As one of the city’s leading technology companies — according to the Pittsburgh Business Times, Petuum...

Our Senior Director of Data Solutions and Service, Pengtao Xie, has been selected as a winner of the Pittsburgh Business Times’ Innovator Awards 2018! We are proud to share the news and...

By Eric Xing, CEO, Founder, and Chief Scientist at Petuum It was an honor to represent Petuum, a 2018 Technology Pioneer, at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in...