Baidu decides to make its AI platform opensources amidst competition.
Baidu, which offers diverse services to the local populace, is following the footsteps of Facebook and Google by open sourcing its artificial intelligence (AI) code. The reason behind this initiative is to become a standard offering in an extremely important market.
The company has come up with Warp-CTC C library that has been posted on GitHub through their lab situated in Silicon Valley. A blog post also motivates the developers to make use of the platform.
CTC is an abbreviation of "connectionist temporal classification." The service uses a bunch of neural network designs that enable them to process the data that is not aligned seamlessly. Thus, it has the ability to decipher complex patterns and in terms of speech recognition, this technology is considered one of a kind.
The Research Labs at Baidu have devised their system by making use of CTC so that it can add more depth to its speech recognition products and services. Speech recognition is an important component for businesses to operate in the Chinese market due to the tonal language. Moreover, it gets hard to incorporate written language on the digital canvas.
Baidu claims that Warp version of its service requires less memory comparatively and can function hundred thousand times better than conventional CTC. The reason for the company to open source the software is that it wishes to “make end-to-end deep learning easier and faster so researchers can make more rapid progress" along with the fact that "previous code for training end-to-end networks for sequences has been too slow." It wants to "start contributing to the machine learning community by sharing an important piece of code that we created."
The reality behind this decision is that Google announced to open sources its recent TensorFlow Software offered in November. Likewise, Facebook has come up with a similar announcement in December regarding Big Sur. Baidu is now concerned about its efforts since developers will be more inclined to use technology that they are more accustomed.
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