Rounding Up Machine Learning Developments From 2020

The year 2020 saw many exciting developments in machine learning. As the year 2020 comes to an end, here is a roundup of these innovations in various machine learning domains such as reinforcement learning, Natural Language Processing, ML frameworks such as Pytorch and TensorFlow, and more. Arm-based Graviton processors went mainstream in 2020, which utilize 30 billion transistors with 64-bit Arm cores built by Israeli-based engineering company Annapurna Labs. AWS recently acquired it for powering memory-intensive workloads like real-time big data analytics. It showed a 40% performance improvement emerging as an alternative to x86-based processors for machine learning, shifting the trend from the Intel-dominated cloud market to Arm-based Graviton processors.