The Lambda Deep Learning Blog

Multi-GPU enabled BERT using Horovod
Published on February 6, 2019
by Chuan Li

BERT is Google's pre-training language representations which obtained the state-of-the-art results on a wide range of Natural Language Processing tasks.

On-prem GPU Training Infrastructure for Deep Learning - Slides
Published on January 25, 2019
by Stephen Balaban

These slides are from my talk at Rework Deep Learning Summit 2019.

Reproduce Fast.ai/DIUx imagenet18 with a Titan RTX server
Published on January 15, 2019
by Chuan Li

Last year, Fast.ai won the first ImageNet training cost challenge as part of the DAWN benchmark. Their customized ResNet50 takes 3.27 hours to reach 93%.

ResNet9: train to 94% CIFAR10 accuracy in 100 seconds with a single Turing GPU
Published on January 7, 2019
by Chuan Li

DAWNBench recently updated its leaderboard. Among the impressive entries from top-class research institutes and AI startups, perhaps the biggest leap was...

Tips for implementing SSD Object Detection (with TensorFlow code)
Published on January 6, 2019
by Chuan Li

Object Detection using Single Shot MultiBox Detector. The task of object detection is to identify "what" objects are inside of an image and "where".

Titan RTX Deep Learning Benchmarks
Published on December 26, 2018
by Michael Balaban

Titan RTX vs. 2080 Ti vs. 1080 Ti vs. Titan Xp vs. Titan V vs. Tesla V100.

Lambda NeurIPS 2018 Ticket Contest for Three NeurIPS Tickets
Published on November 28, 2018
by Stephen Balaban

Lambda is a diamond sponsor this year at NeurIPS. We have three extra registrations for the contest.

Google is probably using Adversarial Noise for reCAPTCHA
Published on November 28, 2018
by Stephen Balaban

What exactly qualifies as a human?

How to install Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 and Lambda Stack on a Tensorbook (Gen 2)
Published on November 6, 2018
by Stephen Balaban

Many deep learning teams have software that depends on Ubuntu 16.04 (and not 18.04).

Crowd Sourced Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks from the Community
Published on October 12, 2018
by Stephen Balaban

We open sourced the benchmarking code we use at Lambda Labs.

Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks - V100 vs 2080 Ti vs 1080 Ti vs Titan V
Published on October 8, 2018
by Stephen Balaban

At Lambda, we're often asked "what's the best GPU for deep learning?" In this post and accompanying white paper, we evaluate...

Image Segmentation
Published on October 7, 2018
by Chuan Li

Image segmentation is the problem of assigning each pixel in an image a class.

Hyper-Parameter Tuning
Published on September 26, 2018
by Chuan Li

In order to improve the performance of a neural network...

Transfer Learning with TensorFlow Tutorial: Image Classification Example
Published on September 21, 2018
by Chuan Li

Our last tutorial described how to do basic image classification...

How To Classify Images with TensorFlow - a Step-By-Step Tutorial
Published on September 13, 2018
by Chuan Li

Welcome to our Beginner's Demo! We will walk you through the steps of image classification.