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https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nlu-with-tensorrt-bert/

Research on training transformer language models at scale, including BERT:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04284

Personal VAD: Speaker-Conditioned Voice Activity Detection

Shaojin Ding, Quan Wang, Shuo-yiin Chang, Li Wan, Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Comments: To be submitted to ICASSP 2020Subjects: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

http://www.acl2019.org/EN/winners-of-acl-2019-best-paper-awards.xhtml

Concern: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02243

Good examples:

• $40 to train imagenet: https://www.fast.ai/2018/08/10/fastai-diu-imagenet
• Fastest end2end ASR: https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter
• Neural architecture search in 1.5 days on a single GPU: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09055