Large-scale driving datasets such as Waymo Open Dataset and nuScenes substantially accelerate autonomous driving research, especially for perception tasks such as 3D detection and trajectory forecasting. Since the driving logs in these datasets contain HD maps and detailed object annotations which accurately reflect the real-world complexity of traffic behaviors, we can harvest a massive number of complex traffic scenarios and recreate their digital twins in simulation. Compared to the hand-crafted scenarios often used in existing simulators, data-driven scenarios collected from the real world can facilitate many research opportunities in machine learning and autonomous driving.

We present hls4ml, a free and open-source platform that translates machine learning (ML) models from modern deep learning frameworks into high-level synthesis (HLS) code that can be integrated into full designs for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). With its flexible and modular design, hls4ml supports a large number of deep learning frameworks and can target HLS compilers from several vendors, including Vitis HLS, Intel oneAPI and Catapult HLS. Together with a wider eco-system for software-hardware co-design, hls4ml has enabled the acceleration of ML inference in a wide range of commercial and scientific applications where low latency, resource usage, and power consumption are critical. In this paper, we describe the structure and functionality of the hls4ml platform. The overarching design considerations for the generated HLS code are discussed, together with selected performance results.

Large-scale driving datasets such as Waymo Open Dataset and nuScenes substantially accelerate autonomous driving research, especially for perception tasks such as 3D detection and trajectory forecasting. Since the driving logs in these datasets contain HD maps and detailed object annotations which accurately reflect the real-world complexity of traffic behaviors, we can harvest a massive number of complex traffic scenarios and recreate their digital twins in simulation. Compared to the hand-crafted scenarios often used in existing simulators, data-driven scenarios collected from the real world can facilitate many research opportunities in machine learning and autonomous driving. ScenarioNet defines a unified scenario description format and collects a large-scale repository of real-world traffic scenarios from the heterogeneous data in various driving datasets including Waymo, nuScenes, Lyft L5, and nuPlan datasets. These scenarios can be further replayed and interacted with in multiple views from Bird-Eye-View layout to realistic 3D rendering in MetaDrive simulator.

The Universal Basic Computing Power (UBCP) initiative ensures global, free access to a set amount of computing power specifically for AI research and development (R&D). This initiative comprises three key elements. First, UBCP must be cost free, with its usage limited to AI R&D and minimal additional conditions. Second, UBCP should continually incorporate the state of the art AI advancements, including efficiently distilled, compressed, and deployed training data, foundational models, benchmarks, and governance tools. Lastly, it's essential for UBCP to be universally accessible, ensuring convenience for all users. We urge major stakeholders in AI development large platforms, open source contributors, and policymakers to prioritize the UBCP initiative.

As organizations increasingly rely on Machine Learning (ML) to inform business decisions, the need for efficient model deployment and management is more important than ever. However, the complexity of managing and deploying ML models can be a daunting task, and that's where Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) tools come into play. In this article, we'll take a look at the top 10 MLOps tools that can help your organization efficiently deploy and manage your ML models. Saturn Cloud is an MLOps platform for AI teams that provides cloud infrastructure, notebooks, jobs, deployments, collaboration tools, reproducible pipelines and more. It has a large variety of integrations with popular MLOps tools such as Comet, Weights & Biases, Neptune and can easily integrate with new tools.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence -- perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information -- demonstrated by machines. Today, AI is no longer profound technology in a science lab. Instead, it is at amateurs' fingertips to create decent artwork, generate sophisticated conversation, and perform other intelligent tasks using DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, ChatGPT, Point·E, Whisper, etc. Have you ever wondered how a realistic image is generated by a natural language description? The intelligence comes from Machine Learning (ML), the study of computer algorithms that can improve automatically through experience and by the use of data. These textbook algorithms are publicly available and ready to be used.

This article will discuss 7-AI Powered tools that can help you to boost your productivity as a data scientist. These tools can help you to automate the tasks like data cleaning and feature selection, model tuning, etc., which directly or indirectly make your work more efficient, accurate, and effective and also helps to make better decisions. Many of them have user-friendly UIs and are very simple to use. At the same time, some allow data scientists to share and collaborate on projects with other members, which helps in increasing the productivity of teams. DataRobot is a web-based platform that helps you automate building, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models.

This paper presents a conversational AI platform called Flowstorm. Flowstorm is an open-source SaaS project suitable for creating, running, and analyzing conversational applications. Thanks to the fast and fully automated build process, the dialogues created within the platform can be executed in seconds. Furthermore, we propose a novel dialogue architecture that uses a combination of tree structures with generative models. The tree structures are also used for training NLU models suitable for specific dialogue scenarios. However, the generative models are globally used across applications and extend the functionality of the dialogue trees. Moreover, the platform functionality benefits from out-of-the-box components, such as the one responsible for extracting data from utterances or working with crawled data. Additionally, it can be extended using a custom code directly in the platform. One of the essential features of the platform is the possibility to reuse the created assets across applications. There is a library of prepared assets where each developer can contribute. All of the features are available through a user-friendly visual editor.

Creating a model is one thing, but using that model in production is quite another. The next step after a data scientist completes a model is to deploy it so that it can serve the application. Batch and online model serving are the two main categories. Batch refers to feeding a large amount of data into a model and writing the results to a table, usually as a scheduled operation. You must deploy the model online using an endpoint for applications to send a request to the model and receive a quick response with no latency.

In the field of technology, machine learning is nothing new. The capacity to automate channels and increase company process flexibility brought about a revolutionary change for numerous industries. The machine learning lifecycle governs many aspects of developing and deploying trained model APIs in the production environment. Model deployment, which differs from the creation of ML models in that it has a steeper learning curve for beginners, has proven to be one of the most significant challenges in data science. Model deployment refers to integrating a machine learning model that accepts an input and delivers an output to make helpful business decisions based on data into an already-existing production environment.