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Baidu Research at 2022 Leading Robotics and Control Conferences: ICRA, RSS, and ACC

This week marks the start of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), a leading robotics conference with clos...

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May 24th，2022
PaddleOCR, an Easy-to-Use and Open-Source OCR System, Rolls out Major Upgrade With Improved Accuracy and New Annotation Functions

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May 17th，2022
Unprecedented Look

Baidu’s AI and three-dimensional (3D) simulation technology, “3D+AI”, are here to help, capturing and analyzing athletes’ motions and cr...

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Feb 10th，2022
Top 10 Tech Trends in 2022 by Baidu Research

Baidu Research shares with you the top 10 technology trends of 2022....

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Jan 25th，2022
Introducing PCL-BAIDU Wenxin (ERNIE 3.0 Titan), the World’s First Knowledge Enhanced Multi-Hundred-Billion Model

We are excited to introduce PCL-BAIDU Wenxin (or “ERNIE 3.0 Titan”), a pre-training language model with 260 billion parameters....

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Dec 28th，2021
Baidu and Stemirna Therapeutics’ Preclinical Studies Demonstrate LinearDesign’s Effectiveness in mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Development

Baidu, a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, and Stemirna Therapeutics, a leading mRNA biotechnology company, today announce...

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Oct 14th，2021
Baidu Releases PLATO-XL: World’s First 11 Billion Parameter Pre-Trained Dialogue Generation Model

Now Baidu PLATO-2 has been upgraded to PLATO-XL. Over ten billion parameters make it the world’s largest Chinese and English dialogue gener...

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Sep 27th，2021
Terrain Processing Technology for Heavy-Duty Autonomous Excavator Navigation

Researchers from Baidu Research Robotics and Auto-Driving Lab (RAL) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) have developed a real...

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Sep 14th，2021
Baidu at ACL-IJCNLP 2021

The first-ever Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint...

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Aug 5th，2021
ERNIE 3.0 Achieves State-of-the-Art Results in 54 Chinese NLP Tasks, Crowned 1st Place on SuperGLUE Leaderboard

Baidu Research has proposed a unified framework, coined as ERNIE 3.0, for pre-training large-scale knowledge enhanced models....

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Jul 14th，2021
Autonomous Excavators Ready for Around the Clock Real-World Deployment

Researchers from Baidu Research and the University of Maryland have developed a robotic excavator system that integrates perception, plannin...

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Jul 1st，2021
Baidu at CVPR 2021

The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2021 kicked off last weekend as a virtual event from June 19 – June 25. As th...

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Jun 18th，2021
PaddlePaddle Receives Full Upgrade to Facilitate Integrated Innovation and Lower Thresholds

We are excited to announce a major upgrade of Baidu’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, adding new features and enhanced capabilities in...

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May 27th，2021
Baidu Releases PaddlePaddle 2.0 with New Features Including Dynamic Graphs, Reorganized APIs and Heterogeneous Parameter Server

We are excited to announce that PaddlePaddle 2.0 is now available. The deep learning platform's latest version features dynamic (computation...

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Apr 1st，2021
PaddlePaddle’s Graph Neural Networks Advance Drug Design

Our AI models, trained with Baidu’s open-source deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, ranked first on the benchmarks for molecular property...

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Mar 25th，2021
Call For Papers! The Inaugural ICDAR Workshop on Document Image and Language (DIL 2021)

Baidu, together with CASIA, DFKI, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, will collectively hold DIL 2021 – namely, the Workshop o...

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Mar 16th，2021
Baidu at AAAI 2021: Multimodal Transformer, Supervised Quantum Learning, Early Detection of COVID-19 High-Risk Areas

The 35th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence is now underway from Feb 2 to Feb 9 as a fully virtual meeting due to the impact...

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Feb 6th，2021
ERNIE-M: Multilingual Model Learns 96 Languages from Monolingual Corpora, Tops Google’s XTREME Benchmark

ERNIE-M delivers new SOTA results across five cross-lingual NLP tasks and tops the XTREME multilingual benchmark....

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Jan 26th，2021
Baidu Research: 10 Technology Trends in 2021

Baidu Research is releasing our prediction of the 10 major scientific and technological trends in 2021, hoping that these clear technologica...

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Jan 22nd，2021
2020 Retrospective: Baidu’s AI Innovations

Before we start our 2021 journey, we want to take a quick look at the AI innovations we achieved in 2020, including technology breakthroughs...

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Jan 13th，2021
Inside RocketQA: AI Powers Search Engine to Provide the Best Possible Answer

We are excited to introduce RocketQA, a novel training approach to dense passage retrieval for open-domain question-answering that significa...

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Oct 22nd，2020
Exploring Baidu Brain 6.0: Updated PaddlePaddle, 2nd-Gen AI Processor, and New Quantum Computing Platform

Join us for a quick look at Baidu Brain 6.0, including new updates in Baidu’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, AI processor Kunlun, cor...

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Sep 24th，2020
Introducing Qian Yan, Baidu's New Plan to Build 100 Chinese NLP Datasets in Three Years

As Baidu NLP turns 10 this year, we are thrilled to announce new plans and products in an effort to accelerate large-scale implementation of...

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Aug 28th，2020
Baidu at KDD 2020

Baidu has had 10 papers accepted at KDD 2020, covering a wide range of topics like knowledge graph, human-machine interaction, and anti-pand...

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Aug 26th，2020
Baidu at ECCV 2020

Baidu has had 11 research papers accepted at ECCV 2020, covering a wide range of topics such as localization for autonomous driving, aerial...

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Aug 21st，2020
PLATO-2: The State-of-the-art Open-Domain Chatbot in Chinese and English

We are excited to present PLATO-2, our newest open-domain chatbot model that can talk about anything in Chinese and English and engage in de...

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Jul 15th，2020
Baidu’s Multimodal Model ERNIE-ViL Achieves SOTA on 5 Tasks and Tops Visual Commonsense Reasoning Challenge

We are proud to introduce ERNIE-ViL, a knowledge-enhanced approach to learn joint representations of vision and language. To our best knowle...

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Jul 8th，2020
CVPR 2020 recap: Baidu tops 8 challenge tracks & hosts 2 workshops

This year, Baidu secured championships at eight challenge tracks and hosted two workshops, in addition to its 22 research papers accepted at...

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Jun 26th，2020
WaveFlow: A Compact Flow-Based Model for Raw Audio

Baidu announced WaveFlow (paper, audio samples), the latest milestone of audio synthesis research at Baidu. It features: 1) high-fidelity &...

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Jun 12th，2020
Baidu at CVPR 2020

Baidu has had 22 research papers accepted at CVPR 2020, covering a wide range of topics such as video understanding, image super-resolution,...

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Jun 9th，2020
Introducing Paddle Quantum: How Baidu's Deep Learning Platform PaddlePaddle Empowers Quantum Computing

Baidu recently announced Paddle Quantum, a quantum machine learning development toolkit that can help scientists and developers quickly buil...

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May 27th，2020
Baidu Develops Algorithms that Improve mRNA Vaccine Developments for COVID-19

Baidu Research is proud to announce LinearDesign, an efficient algorithm for optimized mRNA sequence design. The algorithm needs only 16 min...

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May 13th，2020
VidPress: Baidu’s New AI Tool Creating Videos from a URL with One-Click

The ability to edit videos quickly is a skill standing out in the era of social media where short videos are king, but becoming a master req...

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Apr 21st，2020
How Baidu is harnessing the power of AI in the battle against coronavirus

Unpredictable and rapidly spreading, the COVID-19 coronavirus has travelled from its earlier concentration in China to reach more than 100 c...

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Mar 12th，2020
Baidu at AAAI 2020: NLP, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision

The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) is now underway in New York. As one of the world’s leading conferences in the...

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Feb 12th，2020
Opening up world’s fastest RNA structure prediction algorithm to the scientific community to support battle against coronavirus

The 2019 coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, has evolved to infect humans, causing a range of flu-like symptoms that pose the risk of developing into...

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Feb 1st，2020
A Look Back on Baidu’s AI Innovations in 2019

AI has become a key driver of innovation in the tech industry over the past decade, but 2019 marked a tipping point where AI expanded beyond...

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Jan 21st，2020
Baidu Research: 10 Technological Trends in 2020

In the past year alone, the integration of multiple emerging technologies has sped up; the threshold of AI development continued lowering, a...

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Dec 23rd，2019
Baidu’s Pre-training Model ERNIE Achieves New NLP Benchmark Record

Today we are excited to announce that ERNIE has achieved new state-of-the-art performance on GLUE and become the world’s first model to sco...

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Dec 11th，2019
A Look at Baidu’s Cutting-Edge Research on Training AI to Move Like a Human

We’re excited to present our recent research results in this area, which we believe will advance the field: our Baidu research team trained...

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Dec 10th，2019
Baidu PaddlePaddle Releases 21 New Capabilities to Accelerate Industry-Grade Model Development

Featuring 100+ models, new mobile inference engine, and frameworks for graph & federated learning...

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Nov 14th，2019
Baidu Research launched the

The "Polaris Program" of Baidu Research provides the most advanced and cutting-edge research environment for high potential AI scholars to w...

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Aug 20th，2019
Baidu releases DuTongChuan: A Context-aware Translation Model for Simultaneous Interpreting

Here we announce DuTongChuan, the first context-aware translation model for simultaneous interpreting. The model achieves comparable perfor...

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Aug 19th，2019
Baidu’s Optimized ERNIE Achieves State-of-the-Art Results in Natural Language Processing Tasks

Baidu today released ERNIE 2.0 (Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration), a brand-new natural language processing framework. B...

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Jul 30th，2019
Baidu Research Bolsters Capabilities with New Labs and World-renowned Appointment to Advisory Board

Baidu Research now counts seven major research labs and welcomes Artur Konrad Ekert, leading expert in quantum computing, to the Baidu Resea...

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Jul 2nd，2019
Hubless Nearest Neighbor Search for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

This blogpost introduces our recent publication in ACL 2019....

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Jun 18th，2019
10 Papers from Baidu Accepted by Association for Computational Linguistics 2019 Annual Meeting

Baidu’s research in Natural Language Processing is highly recognized....

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May 27th，2019
Parallel Neural Text-to-Speech

Text-to-Speech (TTS), also called speech synthesis, has a variety of applications, such as smart home devices, map navigation and content cr...

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May 22nd，2019
Baidu Ranked First in ICME 2019 Grand Challenge of 106-p Facial Landmark Localization

Baidu’s visual tech stands out in IEEE’s renowned international competition...

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May 21st，2019
Baidu Announced 11 News tools to PaddlePaddle and RMB 100 Million Worth of Free Computing Resources to Support Developers

At Baidu’s Wave Summit, Baidu demonstrated new features of its deep learning plaftform PaddlePaddle....

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Apr 26th，2019
Baidu released knowledge integration language representation model ERNIE which outperforms Google’s BERT in certain Chinese NLP tasks

Baidu released ERNIE (Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration) with its open source code and pre-trained model based on PaddlePad...

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Mar 16th，2019
Baidu Team Wins the Suggestion Mining Challenge at SemEval 2019

Baidu triumphed over 210 teams from around the world in the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2019)....

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Mar 11th，2019
Measuring Lesion Geometry with AI

Lesions characterized by computed tomography (CT) scans, are arguably often elliptical objects. Therefore, radiologists often use two perpen...

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Mar 1st，2019
Baidu Teams up with Academia, awarding Grand Prizes for Breakthroughs in the ICDAR 2019 Competitions

The Competitions of International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) began on March 1st this year. Baidu works with aca...

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Mar 1st，2019
A Breakthrough in Speech Technology: Baidu Launched SMLTA, the First Streaming Multi-layer Truncated Attention Model for Large-scale Online Speech Recognition

On 16 January 2019, Baidu announced four major breakthroughs in automatic speech recognition (ASR). Among them, the most noticeable one is t...

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Jan 21st，2019
Baidu Research Establishes an Advisory Board, Holds 1st Board Meeting in Silicon Valley

Baidu Research brings together more world-renowned scientists to jointly advance artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for the future...

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Nov 15th，2018
Baidu Research Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation

STACL, or Simultaneous Translation with Anticipation and Controllable Latency, is the first simultaneous machine translation system with ant...

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Oct 24th，2018
ClariNet: Parallel Wave Generation in End-to-End Text-to-Speech

ClariNet, the first end-to-end TTS model, directly converts text to a speech waveform in a single neural network. Its fully convolutional ar...

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Jul 20th，2018
The Association for Computational Linguistics Appoints Baidu’s Haifeng Wang as the Founding Chair of the Newly Launched Asia-Pacific Chapter

Today, at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Haifeng Wang, Baidu’s...

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Jul 17th，2018
Using Deep Learning to Help Pathologists Find Tumors

While there are various methods to diagnose cancer, a pathology review of biopsied tissues is often considered the gold standard....

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Jun 18th，2018
Experimental Evaluation of Mixed Precision Training for End to End Applications

Experimental Evaluation of Mixed Precision Training for End-to-End Language Modeling. On NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU, 4.1X performance improvement...

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May 15th，2018
Language Acquisition and One-Shot Concept Learning Through Conversational Interactions

Building intelligent agents that can communicate naturally with and learn effectively from humans through language is incredibly valuable to...

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May 15th，2018
MLPerf: A New Benchmark for Deep Learning Models

In conjunction with a consortium of researchers and engineers, we have released a new framework-level benchmark called MLPerf. MLPerf measur...

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May 2nd，2018
Neural Voice Cloning with a Few Samples

At Baidu Research, we aim to revolutionize human-machine interfaces with the latest artificial intelligence techniques. Our Deep Voice proje...

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Feb 20th，2018
Baidu Research Showcased at Top Artificial Intelligence Conferences

The AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) is one of the world’s premiere artificial conferences, with annual su...

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Jan 31st，2018
Baidu Research Announces the Hiring of Three World-Renowned AI Scientists

Today, we are excited to announce the hiring of three world-renowned artificial intelligence scientists, Dr. Kenneth Church, Dr. Jun Huan an...

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Jan 18th，2018
PaddlePaddle Fluid: Elastic Deep Learning on Kubernetes

Two open source communities—PaddlePaddle, the deep learning framework originated in Baidu, and Kubernetes®, the most famous containerized...

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Dec 12th，2017
Deep Learning Scaling is Predictable, Empirically

Our digital world and data are growing faster today than any time in the past—even faster than our computing power. Deep learning helps us...

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Dec 7th，2017
Deep Speech 3: Even more end-to-end speech recognition

Accurate speech recognition systems are vital to many businesses, whether they are a virtual assistant taking commands, video reviews that u...

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Oct 31st，2017
Deep Voice 3: 2000-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech

Today, we are excited to announce Deep Voice 3, the latest milestone of Baidu Research’s Deep Voice project. Deep Voice 3 teaches machines...

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Oct 24th，2017
Mixed Precision Training

In this blog post, we introduce a new technique to train deep learning models titled, “Mixed Precision Training”. In this joint work with...

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Oct 11th，2017
Globally Normalized Reader

We present the Globally Normalized Reader - an approach to extractive question answering with the same performance and significantly lower c...

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Sep 26th，2017
A Spatial-Temporal Modeling Framework for Large-scale Video Understanding

By Xiao Liu and Shilei Wen This blog discusses a novel approach to video recognition and classification that won Baidu first place at the Ac...

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Aug 21st，2017
Baidu Research Announces Next Generation Open Source Deep Learning Benchmark Tool

Baidu Research today unveiled the next generation of DeepBench, the open source deep learning benchmark that now includes measurement for in...

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Jun 28th，2017
Learning to Speak via Interaction

In early April, our team at Baidu Research successfully taught an AI agent to navigate a virtual maze using natural language command issued...

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Jun 7th，2017
Deep Voice 2: Multi-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech

In February, Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab published Deep Voice 1, a system for generating synthetic human voices entirely with deep neural ne...

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May 24th，2017
Deep Speaker: an End-to-End System for Large-Scale Speaker Recognition

Speaker recognition algorithms seek to determine the identity of a speaker from audio. Two common recognition tasks are verification (determ...

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May 9th，2017
An AI agent with human-like language acquisition in a virtual environment

Despite tremendous progress, artificial intelligence is still limited in many ways. For example, in computer games, if an AI agent is not pr...

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Mar 29th，2017