In our lives, terms such as big data and artificial intelligence that were once very far away from our lives have become ubiquitous. Not only do we often see these high-tech terms, but we also often use these high-tech products, such as mobile phones, computers, facial recognitio

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In our lives, big data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the nouns that were once very far away from our lives, have become ubiquitous. Not only do we often see these high-tech terms, but we also often use these high-tech products, such as mobile phones, computers, facial recognition payments, etc., which have brought unexpected conveniences to our lives. The development of artificial intelligence cannot be separated from the "deep learning framework". Beijing First-Class Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "First-Class Technology") located in Haidian District, is such an excellent enterprise focusing on the research and development of a new generation of learning frameworks.

First-class technology was founded in January 2017. It has always been based on the research, development, promotion and use of the general deep learning standard framework, and strives to become a leader and de facto industrial standard for artificial intelligence deep learning framework products. With the mission of "making AI everywhere", the company has the vision of promoting domestic independent and controllable and becoming the world's leading artificial intelligence company. It actively explores and persists in progress, and is committed to building a world-leading AI infrastructure technology company.

"Deep Learning" is becoming more and more "smart"

The so-called deep learning is actually to use the most effective method to make computers continue to learn and become more and more "smart". Taking picture classification as an example, we can train AI to label the pictures taken by the camera and teach it whether there are cars, people, and fruits in the picture, which is to complete a mapping from the pixels of the image to the language label. There are endless variety of optional mappings, but the best implementation is the human brain.

The so-called fitting is to allow the computer to automatically search for a map that is very close to the functions of the human brain in a space composed of mappings. Deep learning provides people with a very good initial search space, that is, multi-layer nonlinear mapping constitutes a functional space, and provides an algorithm for automatically searching for "optimal" mapping in this space.

opens the door to the world for artificial intelligence

With the improvement of big data and computing power, deep learning has defeated traditional machine learning algorithms in various fields as soon as it was launched, and unified the algorithms that drive data-driven artificial intelligence into neural network , which means that the algorithm standardization is completed. Before the birth of deep learning, a graduate student of artificial intelligence had to learn many kinds of algorithms. Each algorithm had its own set of mathematical methods , and each field had its own most effective algorithm. The power of deep learning lies in the standardization and unification of the world. The biggest advantage is that it does not require writing a set of software for each algorithm, and only one set of software (deep learning framework) can serve all fields.

After years of continuous exploration, first-class technology has created one of the rare deep learning frameworks in the world that can support ultra-large-scale deep learning model training - OneFlow.

deep learning framework is known as the artificial intelligence operating system. It determines the technical height of artificial intelligence algorithms and applications. It is a software entrance to underlying hardware such as artificial intelligence chips. OneFlow, a distributed deep learning framework developed by first-class technology, has pioneered four core technologies: automatic data model hybrid parallelism, static scheduling, decentralization and full-link asynchronous streaming execution, which completely solves the challenges of heterogeneous cluster distributed expansion brought by big data, large models, and large computing, and is world-leading in technology level. Since OneFlow is open source, many leading Internet companies, AI companies and research institutions have applied to video image recognition, image detection, voice recognition, natural language processing, advertising distribution and recommendation scenarios. Since its establishment, the company has obtained 10 invention patents and 415 software copyrights. In the "First Round of Open Source Deep Learning Software Framework Test Report" released by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology in May 2020, the OneFlow framework has significantly led foreign products with performance indicators under the same algorithm and hardware conditions.

is based on the present and looks forward to the future.First-class technology has made more people and more companies use artificial intelligence technology conveniently and at low cost through the core deep learning framework in artificial intelligence infrastructure software, and is determined to make artificial intelligence shine in various fields through this world-class basic software. (Dou Yiping)