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Sep 22, 2014 · Artificial Intelligence

How Baidu’s Bingo AI Cracked the Go Challenge with Novel Algorithms

After decades of being deemed a 'century‑long' AI challenge, Baidu’s Bingo system achieved amateur‑to‑professional level Go play by introducing optimized Monte‑Carlo tree search, a weakened Alpha‑Beta hybrid, and massive supervised learning, demonstrating how breakthroughs in game AI can ripple into broader Baidu products.

Artificial IntelligenceBaiduGo AI

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How Baidu’s Bingo AI Cracked the Go Challenge with Novel Algorithms

Baidu Tech Salon

Aug 18, 2014 · Big Data

Big Data and Prediction: Insights from Baidu Research Lab

At Baidu’s 53rd Technology Salon, researcher Shen Zhiyong outlined the lab’s vision of an online intelligent system that unifies monitoring, anomaly detection, diagnosis and big‑data‑driven prediction—using time‑series, causal and simulation analyses—to forecast tourism crowds, predict Gaokao essay topics, and illustrate both the opportunities and challenges of processing massive, heterogeneous data for real‑time decision support.

BaiduMachine LearningPrediction

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Big Data and Prediction: Insights from Baidu Research Lab

Baidu Tech Salon

Aug 16, 2014 · Big Data

Big Data Prediction Practices: Baidu Technology Salon #53

At Baidu’s Technology Salon #53 on August 16, a near‑full audience heard data scientist Shen Zhiyong explain the origins of Baidu’s tourist‑flow prediction tool and Liu Ying discuss the evolution of social‑economic forecasting from classic “beer‑and‑diapers” models to modern big‑data analytics, followed by an interactive Q&A and prize‑giving session.

BaiduData AnalysisPrediction

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Big Data Prediction Practices: Baidu Technology Salon #53

Baidu Tech Salon

Jul 29, 2014 · Artificial Intelligence

Baidu Speech Synthesis: Balancing Trade‑offs and Opening the Platform to Developers

Baidu’s speech synthesis system, developed since 2013 to give machines natural Chinese voices, tackles millions of tonal variations through phonetic compression and optimized acoustic models, balances trade‑offs in data and scalability, and offers a free open platform that lets developers integrate high‑quality text‑to‑speech into apps, advancing equal access to information.

BaiduDeveloper PlatformHMM

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Baidu Speech Synthesis: Balancing Trade‑offs and Opening the Platform to Developers

Baidu Tech Salon

Jul 10, 2014 · Mobile Development

How Baidu’s BlendUI Makes Webview Transitions as Smooth as Native Apps

This article analyzes Baidu's lightweight app platform, presents research on web‑vs‑native performance gaps, introduces the BlendUI concept that treats every element as an independent webview, and details its design principles, core implementation, and suitable use cases for achieving native‑level transition smoothness.

BaiduBlendUIHybrid App

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How Baidu’s BlendUI Makes Webview Transitions as Smooth as Native Apps

Baidu Tech Salon

Jul 2, 2014 · Artificial Intelligence

Baidu Kaoba: A Case Study of Natural Language Processing and Semantic Analysis

In a June 28 presentation at Baidu’s 51st Technology Salon, senior NLP researcher Zhao Shiqi showcased Baidu Kaoba—a conversational search tool for college admissions—illustrating how inference‑based rewriting, ellipsis completion, concept clarification and interactive generation enable deep, domain‑specific semantic understanding that he predicts will power future internet services.

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Baidu Kaoba: A Case Study of Natural Language Processing and Semantic Analysis

Baidu Tech Salon

Jul 1, 2014 · Industry Insights

How Baidu’s AI Exam Assistant Signals China’s Rapid AI Adoption

The article examines how Baidu’s newly launched AI‑powered “KaoBa” lightweight app is helping Chinese high‑school graduates choose universities, illustrates the broader surge of AI services in China, compares Baidu’s approach with rivals such as Google, IBM, Facebook and Microsoft, and discusses the potential impact on education, healthcare and other industries.

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How Baidu’s AI Exam Assistant Signals China’s Rapid AI Adoption

Baidu Tech Salon

May 8, 2014 · Big Data

How Baidu’s Big Data Engine Predicts Tourist Crowds for the May Day Holiday

Using search query volumes, Baidu’s big‑data engine forecasts tourist numbers for Chinese attractions, achieving over 90% accuracy and partnering with CCTV to broadcast real‑time crowd predictions during the May Day holiday, while also outlining future forecasting plans for flu, sports, finance and real‑estate trends.

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How Baidu’s Big Data Engine Predicts Tourist Crowds for the May Day Holiday

Baidu Tech Salon

Apr 22, 2014 · Operations

Baidu's Optimization of MooseFS and Redis: Architecture Improvements and Performance Enhancement

At Baidu’s 49th Technical Salon, Cheng Yishi explained how the company revamped its MooseFS and Redis systems by adding a Shadow Master to split reads from writes, introducing Slave nodes for failover, and deploying a Redis proxy middleware, thereby dramatically improving performance, scalability, and high‑availability for critical services.

BaiduMooseFSRedis

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Baidu's Optimization of MooseFS and Redis: Architecture Improvements and Performance Enhancement

Baidu Tech Salon

Mar 21, 2014 · Artificial Intelligence

Baidu's Large-Scale Machine Learning Technology: Enabling Trillion-Feature Processing with Minute-Level Model Updates

Baidu's Big Data Machine Learning team, led by Xia Fen, unveiled a suite of five novel algorithms that together allow trillion‑scale feature processing, minute‑level model updates, and up to thousand‑fold efficiency gains in training and inference, dramatically surpassing existing solutions such as Google's billion‑feature systems.

BaiduCTR predictionLarge-Scale Machine Learning

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Baidu's Large-Scale Machine Learning Technology: Enabling Trillion-Feature Processing with Minute-Level Model Updates