One thing that is top of mind for companies looking to implement machine learning and data science solutions is cost. You want solutions and strategies that deliver but at the same time, you don’t want to over-invest in something that is yet to show value. One way of doing this cost-effectively without hiring an elaborate team internally is by using consultants. Either freelance or independent consultants or companies that provide consulting services. But how much does this cost? The first […]

Did you know, that several years ago, NLP was heavily an academic discipline? Today, natural language processing or NLP has become critical to business applications. This can partly be attributed to the growth of big data, consisting heavily of unstructured text data. The need for intelligent techniques to make sense of all this text-heavy data has helped put NLP on the map. So what’s this NLP? In a strict academic definition, NLP is about helping computers understand human language. It’s […]

Abstract Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learners are widely used, but we still have only limited knowledge about what inductive biases shape the way they generalize. We address that by investigating how popular seq2seq learners generalize in tasks that have high ambiguity in the training data. We use four new tasks to study learners’ preferences for memorization, arithmetic, hierarchical, and compositional reasoning. Further, we connect to Solomonoff’s theory of induction and propose to use description length as a principled and sensitive measure of […]