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Highlights from AISTATS 2023
The 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) was held on April 25 — April 27 at Palau de Congressos in Valencia (Spain). AISTATS is an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. At Criteo, we like how AISTATS has broadened research in these…
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Learning from Multiple Sources for Data-to-Text and Text-to-Data
How to generate fluent text from structured data and vice versa by leveraging heterogeneous data sources. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11269Category: Natural Language ProcessingRevue: AISTATS 2023 Why did we work on this topic (the problem we want to solve)? Data-to-text (D2T) and text-to-data (T2D) are dual tasks that convert structured data such as graphs or tables into fluent text, and…
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Highlights from Kubecon + Cloudnative Europe 2023
Kubecon + Cloudnative Europe 2023 occurred in Amsterdam from April 19 to April 21. This year, the event attracted more than 10,000 participants from all over the world. The conference featured keynote speakers, technical sessions, workshops, and networking opportunities for developers, operators, and other professionals interested in cloud-native technologies. Attendees learned about the latest developments…
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Highlights from DevoxxFR 2023
Devoxx France is one of the largest and most prestigious events of the year in France for information technology and software development enthusiasts. This year, the event attracted over 3,000 developers, engineers, and technology experts worldwide, making it one of the largest events of its kind. As a sponsor of Devoxx France 2023, our team…
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Highlights from SnowCamp 2023
SnowCamp rocks! Check out our summary of the latest edition. SnowCamp 2023 edition is over, and we cannot wait for next year. Conference tickets were sold out within a minute, and there were around 600 participants. That gives you an idea of how big SnowCamp has become year after year. It was an excellent opportunity…
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Advent of Code 2022 — Sharing our experiences
In Criteo, we are passionate experts, but there is always more to learn. That passion motivates us to actively participate in code challenges such as Advent of Code. Join us along for this last 2022 edition journey. What is Advent of Code? As Eric Wastl, the creator of AoC, explains on its website: Advent of Code…
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Monitoring microservices — Central Monitoring: A tool for a global view of things
A bit of history Some years ago, Criteo switched from monolithic applications to microservices. With this new architecture comes challenges like monitoring hundreds of applications, all interacting with each other. At Criteo, there are several ways to introduce innovation. One of them is the yearly Hackathon! At the 2020 event, the fantastic Firewatch team aimed to…
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Highlights from NeurIPS 2022
Criteo was pleased to send seven researchers to NeurIPS 2022 in the beautiful and entertaining city of New Orleans. It was the first NeurIPS in person in 3 years and was now running in hybrid mode. There were some modifications to the program, which was now a single track with keynotes, but all accepted papers…
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Behind the scenes of the PEReN Hackathon: How our team triumphed
TL; DR The Criteo team won the PEReN Hackathon by using clustering approaches to distinguish pricing options from meal delivery data. We launched several exploratory data analysis to learn the data characteristics and extract many good features. The final solution combines a hand-made manual pricing cluster using a distance-fee correlation threshold and the Gaussian Mixture…
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Highlights from SRE Con 2022
We were excited to participate in the sold-out SREcon EMEA 2022 in Amsterdam with our team! We enjoyed meeting & conversing with many interesting people in the SRE community from all over the world. We were happy to have one of our own Bo Hou talk about “A better way to manage Command Line Tools”…