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Announcing the 2019 Facebook Fellows and Emerging Scholars

Announcing the Winners of the Computational Social Science Methodology Research Awards

Announcing the Winners of the Computational Social Science Methodology Research Awards

Announcing the Winners of the Instagram Research Awards for Social Technologies

Announcing the Winners of the Instagram Research Awards for Social Technologies

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Designing Safe Spaces for Virtual Reality

Michelle Cortese, Andrea Zeller

Ethics in Design and Communication 2020 - January 1, 2020

Machine Learning at Facebook: Understanding Inference at the Edge

Carole-Jean Wu, David Brooks, Kevin Chen, Douglas Chen, Sy Choudhury, Marat Dukhan, Kim Hazelwood, Eldad Isaac, Yangqing Jia, Bill Jia, Tommer Leyvand, Hao Lu, Yang Lu, Lin Qiao, Brandon Reagen, Joe Spisak, Fei Sun, Andrew Tulloch, Peter Vajda, Xiaodong Wang, Yanghan Wang, Bram Wasti, Yiming Wu, Ran Xian, Sungjoo Yoo, Peizhao Zhang

HPCA 2019 - February 16, 2019

Combined Reinforcement Learning via Abstract Representations

Vincent Francois-Lavet, Yoshua Bengio, Doina Precup, Joelle Pineau

AAAI 2019 - January 28, 2019

On-line Adaptative Curriculum Learning for GANs

Thang Doan, João Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Bodgan Mazoure, Audrey Durand, Joelle Pineau, R. Devon Hjelm

AAAI 2019 - January 18, 2019

Spatially Invariant Unsupervised Object Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks

Eric Crawford, Joelle Pineau

AAAI 2019 - January 18, 2019

A True Positives Theorem for a Static Race Detector

Nikos Gorogiannis, Peter O'Hearn, Ilya Sergey

POPL - January 14, 2019

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POPL 2019 Most Influential Paper Award for research that led to Facebook Infer

January 17, 2019

Facebook announces Probability and Programming research award at POPL 2019

January 17, 2019

Announcing the 2019 Facebook Fellows and Emerging Scholars

January 15, 2019

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