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How Uber Uses Machine Learning

67 engineering articles about Machine Learning from Uber's engineering team

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This article discusses Uber's transition from batch to streaming data ingestion using Apache Flink, which significantly enhances data freshness and operational efficiency.
Xinli Shang, Peter Huang, Jing Li, Jing Zhao, Jack Song
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This article discusses how Uber has integrated explainability into its machine learning platform, Michelangelo, using Integrated Gradients (IG) to provide interpretable attributions for deep learni...
Hugh Chen, Eric Wang, Gaoyuan Huang, Howard Yu, Jia Li, Sally Lee
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This article discusses how Uber enhances personalized CRM communication using contextual bandit strategies, particularly focusing on the application of AI/ML techniques to optimize email content.
LJ (Lin) He, Yifeng Wu, Gaurav Jindal
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The article introduces the Prompt Engineering Toolkit developed by Uber, which aims to streamline the process of creating and managing prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs).
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The article discusses DragonCrawl, a generative AI system developed by Uber to enhance mobile testing by mimicking human-like interactions with applications.
Juan Marcano, Mengdie Zhang, Ali Zamani, Anam Hira
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The article discusses Uber's journey in scaling its AI/ML infrastructure, highlighting the transition from on-premise to cloud solutions, the implementation of new technologies, and the optimizatio...
Nav Kankani, Rush Tehrani, Anant Vyas
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The article discusses the Model Excellence Scores (MES) framework developed by Uber to enhance the quality of machine learning (ML) systems at scale.
Min Cai, Joseph Wang, Anupriya Mouleesha, Sally Mihyoung Lee
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The article discusses Uber's journey in enhancing its Palette Meta Store, focusing on the challenges faced, the solutions implemented, and the resulting improvements in machine learning feature man...
Paarth Chothani, Nicholas Marcott, Dehua Lai, Xiyuan Feng, Chunhao Zhang, Victoria Wu
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The article discusses Uber's Risk Entity Watch platform, which employs anomaly detection to combat fraud within its marketplace.
Sergey Zelvenskiy, Becky Hui, Sahana Noru, Christopher Settles
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The article discusses the implementation of Two-Tower Embeddings (TTE) at Uber, highlighting its role in enhancing the efficiency and scalability of recommendation systems.
Bo Ling, Melissa Barr, Dhruva Dixith Kurra, Chun Zhu, Nicholas Marcott
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The article discusses Uber's Machine Learning Education Program, which leverages engineering principles to scale ML education for its employees.
Brooke Carter, Melissa Barr, Michael Mui
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The article discusses DeepETA, Uber's advanced model for predicting arrival times using deep learning techniques.
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This article discusses how Uber manages supply and demand on its Big Data platform to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
Zheng Shao, Mohammad Islam
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The article discusses Uber's Customer Support Automation Platform, focusing on the development and implementation of the Policy Engine (PE) to enhance customer service efficiency.
Chia Yen Hung, Monis Khan, Norm Usenkanov
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The article discusses the integration of Elastic Distributed Training with XGBoost on Ray, highlighting how this approach addresses challenges in distributed machine learning at scale.
Michael Mui, Xu Ning, Kai Fricke, Amog Kamsetty, Richard Liaw
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The article discusses Uber's approach to Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) for machine learning models and online serving.
Joseph Wang, Jia Li, Yi Zhang, Yunfeng Bai
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The article discusses Optimal Feature Discovery, a method developed by Uber AI to enhance machine learning models by efficiently identifying and selecting relevant features while minimizing redunda...
Adam Wang, Olcay Cirit, Amit Nene, Niel Teng Hu
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The article discusses the development and implementation of Charon, a real-time analytics framework at Uber designed for automating merchant live monitoring.
Marco Vita, Ujwala Tulshigiri, Dharak Kharod
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The article discusses the Technical Program Management and Learning team at Uber, highlighting the diverse roles within the team and their impact on the company's engineering initiatives.
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The article discusses the integration of Elastic Horovod with Ray, focusing on how this combination enhances distributed deep learning training by enabling autoscaling and fault tolerance.
Travis Addair, Xu Ning, Richard Liaw
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The article discusses the application of machine learning in internal auditing, specifically focusing on the challenges and methodologies used at Uber to analyze sparsely labeled data.
Jesse He
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Horovod v0. 21 introduces significant enhancements aimed at optimizing network utilization for distributed deep learning training.
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The article introduces the Uber São Paulo Tech Center, established as a hub for Safety Tech and other organizations.
Gisela Bobato, Camila Carvalho
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The article discusses a novel value function, Q(s,s'), for estimating the utility of transitioning between states in reinforcement learning.
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The article discusses Uber ATG's data mining operations aimed at identifying real-world pedestrian crossing scenarios to enhance machine learning for self-driving vehicles (SDVs).
Steffon Davis, Shouheng Yi, Andy Li, Mallika Chawda
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The article discusses Uber ATG's machine learning infrastructure and versioning control platform, VerCD, designed to manage the complexities of developing self-driving vehicles.
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The article discusses the significant contributions of women in data science at Uber, highlighting their innovative approaches to solving complex data problems.
Emily Bailey
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Uber has released Manifold, a model-agnostic visual debugging tool for machine learning, as an open-source project to help ML practitioners identify performance issues in their models.
Lezhi Li
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The article discusses Uber's participation in the NeurIPS 2019 conference, highlighting their commitment to advancing machine learning through research and practical applications.
Matthias Poloczek, Molly Spaeth
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The article discusses the evolution of the Michelangelo model representation at Uber to enhance flexibility and scalability in machine learning model serving.
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The article discusses how Uber leverages advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance transportation solutions.
Wayne Cunningham
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The article discusses three innovative approaches to scaling machine learning at Uber, specifically from the Seattle Engineering team.
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The article discusses how Uber leverages advanced research to tackle real-world challenges through machine learning.
Wayne Cunningham
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The article discusses the application of the Minimum Redundancy and Maximum Relevance (mRMR) feature selection framework in marketing machine learning at Uber.
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The article discusses Uber's use of machine learning in their marketplace simulation platform to enhance the connection between drivers and riders.
Haoyang Chen, Wei Wang
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This article explores the application of causal inference methods at Uber to enhance user experience by understanding the underlying causes of user behavior.
Totte Harinen, Bonnie Li
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The Second Uber Science Symposium showcased advancements in programming systems and tools, featuring talks from leading researchers and practitioners from institutions like MIT and Berkeley, as wel...
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The article features an interview with Felix Cheung, Data Platform Engineering Manager at Uber, discussing the advantages of open source software in private enterprise.
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The article discusses how Uber utilizes a data workflow management system called Piper to enhance accessibility and efficiency in machine learning (ML) processes.
Jianyong Zhang, Eric Chen, Sally Lee
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Uber has announced the open sourcing of Peloton, its unified resource scheduler designed to manage resources across various workloads efficiently.
Min Cai, Mayank Bansal
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The article discusses how Uber employs machine learning to ensure the capacity safety of individual microservices, addressing challenges related to predicting service-level capacity requirements.
Ranjib Dey, Shrey Desai, Ruogu Du
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The First Uber Science Symposium brought together experts from various fields to discuss advancements in reinforcement learning (RL), natural language processing (NLP), conversational AI, and deep ...
Mahdi Namazifar, Gokhan Tur, Jeff Clune, John Sears, Rosanne Liu, Xu Ning, Zoubin Ghahramani
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The article discusses Manifold, a model-agnostic visual debugging tool developed by Uber for enhancing machine learning model performance.
Lezhi Li, Tim
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The article discusses the role of women in data science at Uber, highlighting their contributions to various projects and the importance of diversity in technical fields.
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The article provides a comprehensive overview of the key highlights from the Uber Engineering Blog in 2018, showcasing advancements in technology, engineering practices, and personal stories from U...
Molly Vorwerck, Wayne Cunningham
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The article reviews Uber's open source initiatives in 2018, highlighting the diversity of projects and their impact on the technical community.
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The article discusses Go-Explore, a new algorithm developed to tackle hard-exploration problems in deep reinforcement learning, particularly in Atari games like Montezuma's Revenge and Pitfall.
Adrien Ecoffet, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune
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This article narrates the inspiring journey of an individual who transitioned from being a fabric weaver in Ethiopia to becoming a software engineer at Uber in San Francisco.
Samuel Zemedkun
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The article discusses the evolution and scaling of Uber's machine learning platform, Michelangelo, highlighting its development, deployment, and operational strategies.
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The article highlights seven open source projects showcased at the Uber Open Summit, emphasizing Uber's contributions to the open source community.