During the last decade, the Deep Learning progress led to various projects and frameworks. One of the most famous among researchers became the PyTorch one. Thanks to its pure pythonic way of executing and great low-level design, it gathered a lot of attention from the research community. Nevertheless, with great…

Recommender systems — a retrospective You probably already know that recommender systems are all around you: they select and rank products in marketplaces (Amazon, Yandex) and movies on Netflix/Disney to find the most relevant one to you, they prepare podcasts and select the next track/video on Spotify/Youtube to suit your personal preferences, they filter your…

Hi, I am Sergey, the author of the Catalyst — PyTorch library for deep learning research and development. In our previous blog posts, we covered an introduction to the Catalyst and our advanced pipeline for NLP on BERT distillation. In this post, I would like to share with you our…

2 weeks ago, 13 November, one of the most exiting RL competitions of this year finally end. NIPS 2017: Learning to Run was really interesting and hard to solve. Nevertheless, me and my friend Mikhail Pavlov took 3rd place in the final round and we invited to NIPS conference. …