Aug 3, 2022Member-onlyWhy you should not use randomSplit in PySpark to split data into train and test.In case you work with large scale data and want to prepare dataset for your Tensorflow/PyTorch model, don’t use randomSplit function to split data into train and test. The problem You have a pyspark dataframe and you would like to split it into two dataframes, train and test. Obviously, you would like…Python3 min readPython3 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Mar 8, 2021Member-onlyTop-10 Research Papers in AIThe most cited AI works that influence our daily life today — Each year scientists from around the world publish thousands of research papers in AI but only a few of them reach wide audiences and make a global impact in the world. Below are the top-10 most impactful research papers published in top AI conferences during the last 5 years. …AI5 min readAI5 min read
Published inCantor’s Paradise·Feb 25, 2021Member-onlyThe Easiest Unsolved Problem in Graph TheoryThis post is written together with Ekaterina Vorobyeva. At ten I once said to my friend how great it would if our teacher presented to us unsolved math problems. It would be much more fun to approach these in class instead of the textbook exercises. It was the time when…Graph9 min readGraph9 min read
Published inCriteo R&D Blog·Jan 14, 2021Member-onlyTop Applications of Graph Neural Networks 2021Chinese translation is available here. At the beginning of the year, I have a feeling that Graph Neural Nets (GNNs) became a buzzword. As a researcher in this field, I feel a little bit proud (at least not ashamed) to say that I work on this. It was not always…Graph8 min readGraph8 min read
Published inCriteo R&D Blog·Oct 15, 2020Member-onlyNeurIPS 2020. Comprehensive analysis of authors, organizations, and countries.Welcome! This post analyzes what authors and organizations publish at NeurIPS 2020 this December, similar to the analysis I did for ICML 2020. Papers are available here. The code is available here. Disclaimer: As before, such analysis is prone to minor errors due to how people write their names and…Neurips7 min readNeurips7 min read
Published inCriteo R&D Blog·Aug 23, 2020Member-onlyKDD-2020 HighlightsThis year KDD gathered 346 papers (for research and applied tracks), 34 workshops, 45 tutorials (lecture and hands-on) making it one of the biggest applied research conferences in computer science. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of this conference. Trends of this year Let’s have a look at the word cloud…Kdd4 min readKdd4 min read
Published inCriteo R&D Blog·Jun 23, 2020Member-onlyCriteo papers at ICML 2020. Online learning, Optimization, and Generative models.Criteo AI Lab has 9 accepted papers at ICML 2020. This is a new record for us and we are proud of the research and engineering team that we have! Established in 2018, Criteo AI Lab drives the research agenda for Criteo with the focus on the topics of computational…Icml6 min readIcml6 min read
Published inCriteo R&D Blog·Jun 16, 2020Member-onlyICML 2020. Comprehensive analysis of authors, organizations, and countries.ICML is one of the most important conferences in Machine Learning and therefore it’s interesting to see who publishes at this conference. So I looked at the accepted papers for ICML 2020 and analyzed authors, organizations, and countries that participated this year. …Icml 20206 min readIcml 20206 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·May 31, 2020Member-onlyWhy `True is False is False` -> False?Python is cool: after so many years of using it, there are these little peculiar things that amaze me. I recently stumbled upon a very simple line of code that most of the experienced python programmers I know could not explain without googling it.Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Apr 21, 2020Member-onlyA forgotten story of Soviet AIThe names of Turing, Minsky, and McCarthy, the founders of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the west, are now familiar to everybody. However, little is known about the history of AI developments under the Iron Curtain of the USSR, although sometimes the competition between two systems was not less…AI8 min readAI8 min read
