<s>
Abacus.AI	B-Application
is	O
an	O
Artificial	B-Application
Intelligence	I-Application
and	O
Machine	O
Learning	O
platform	O
headquartered	O
in	O
the	O
San	O
Francisco	O
Bay	O
Area	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
known	O
as	O
RealityEngines.AI	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
was	O
founded	O
by	O
Bindu	O
Reddy	O
,	O
Arvind	O
Sundararajan	O
,	O
and	O
Siddartha	O
Naidu	O
in	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Abacus.AI	B-Application
markets	O
using	O
the	O
terms	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2020	O
,	O
it	O
raised	O
$13	O
million	O
led	O
by	O
Index	O
Ventures	O
(	O
changing	O
its	O
name	O
to	O
Abacus.AI	B-Application
in	O
January	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
$22	O
million	O
led	O
by	O
Coatue	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Abacus.AI	B-Application
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
set	O
up	O
data	O
pipelines	O
,	O
specify	O
custom	O
machine	O
learning	O
specific	O
transformations	O
,	O
train	O
models	O
and	O
deploy	O
and	O
monitor	O
them	O
,	O
and	O
build	O
deep	B-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
core	O
platform	O
,	O
Abacus.AI	B-Application
provides	O
use-case	O
specific	O
workflows	O
including	O
personalization	O
,	O
forecasting	O
,	O
and	O
anomaly	B-Algorithm
detection	I-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
has	O
invented	O
several	O
neural	B-General_Concept
architecture	I-General_Concept
search	I-General_Concept
methods	O
that	O
can	O
create	O
custom	O
neural	B-Architecture
networks	I-Architecture
from	O
data	B-General_Concept
sets	I-General_Concept
based	O
on	O
a	O
specific	O
use-case	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Abacus.AI	B-Application
is	O
able	O
to	O
connect	O
to	O
various	O
data	O
sources	O
including	O
S3	O
,	O
Google	O
Cloud	O
and	O
Azure	O
which	O
makes	O
it	O
easy	O
to	O
set	O
up	O
data	O
transformations	O
for	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Once	O
the	O
data	O
is	O
transformed	O
,	O
Abacus.AI	B-Application
utilizes	O
neural	B-General_Concept
architecture	I-General_Concept
search	I-General_Concept
(	O
NAS	O
)	O
techniques	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
custom	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
based	O
on	O
the	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
provided	O
and	O
the	O
use-case	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
for	O
incident	O
detection	O
,	O
Abacus.AI	B-Application
uses	O
a	O
technique	O
called	O
variational	O
encoders	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Abacus.AI	B-Application
uses	O
an	O
autonomous	O
AI	B-Application
generation	O
service	O
,	O
announced	O
in	O
January	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
this	O
might	O
lead	O
to	O
neural	B-Architecture
networks	I-Architecture
not	O
being	O
trained	O
with	O
data	O
that	O
is	O
relevant	O
to	O
a	O
customer	O
,	O
Abacus.AI	B-Application
says	O
it	O
creates	O
synthetic	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
that	O
augments	O
the	O
original	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
then	O
trains	O
a	O
deep	B-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
model	O
on	O
the	O
combined	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
AI	B-Application
service	O
uses	O
generative	B-Algorithm
adversarial	I-Algorithm
network	I-Algorithm
(	O
GAN	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
technique	O
that	O
generates	O
new	O
similar	O
data	O
given	O
a	O
training	O
set	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
further	O
improved	O
this	O
technique	O
using	O
data	O
augmentation	O
(	O
DAGAN	O
)	O
,	O
creating	O
synthetic	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
sets	O
when	O
not	O
enough	O
data	O
is	O
available	O
for	O
training	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
in	O
August	O
2021	O
,	O
this	O
service	O
was	O
expanded	O
to	O
any	O
TensorFlow	B-Language
or	O
PyTorch	B-Algorithm
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
allowed	O
the	O
platform	O
to	O
take	O
in	O
data	O
in	O
a	O
streaming	O
fashion	O
providing	O
companies	O
the	O
ability	O
stream	O
real-time	O
events	O
like	O
clickstream	O
data	O
(	O
a	O
user	O
’s	O
online	O
activity	O
)	O
,	O
online	O
purchases	O
,	O
social	O
media	O
interactions	O
,	O
media	O
views	O
from	O
websites	O
and	O
“	O
internet	B-Operating_System
of	I-Operating_System
things	I-Operating_System
”	O
sensors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Abacus.AI	B-Application
published	O
research	O
papers	O
at	O
the	O
Conference	O
on	O
Neural	O
Information	O
Processing	O
Systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Synthetic	O
Benchmarks	O
for	O
Scientific	O
Research	O
in	O
Explainable	O
Machine	O
Learning	O
releases	O
XAI-Bench	O
,	O
a	O
suite	O
of	O
synthetic	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
sets	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
configured	O
and	O
re-engineered	O
to	O
simulate	O
real-world	O
date	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
How	O
Powerful	O
are	O
Performance	O
Predictors	O
in	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
Architecture	I-General_Concept
Search	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
first	O
large-scale	O
study	O
of	O
performance	O
predictors	O
with	O
an	O
analysis	O
of	O
31	O
techniques	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Study	O
on	O
Encodings	O
for	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
Architecture	I-General_Concept
Search	I-General_Concept
proposed	O
a	O
way	O
to	O
encode	O
a	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
architecture	O
to	O
be	O
efficiently	O
manipulated	O
by	O
a	O
search	O
algorithm	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intra-Processing	O
Methods	O
for	O
Debiasing	O
Neural	B-Architecture
Networks	I-Architecture
laid	O
the	O
foundations	O
for	O
the	O
platform	O
’s	O
debiasing	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
published	O
papers	O
include	O
An	O
Analysis	O
of	O
Super-Neut	O
Heuristics	O
in	O
Weight-Sharing	O
NAS	O
on	O
TPAMI	O
,	O
Learning	O
by	O
Turning	O
:	O
Neural	O
Architecture	O
Aware	O
Optimization	O
on	O
ICML	B-General_Concept
,	O
BANANAS	O
:	O
Bayesian	O
Optimization	O
with	O
Neural	O
Architectures	O
for	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
Architecture	I-General_Concept
Search	I-General_Concept
on	O
AAAI	O
,	O
and	O
Exploring	O
the	O
Loss	O
of	O
Landscape	O
in	O
Neural	B-General_Concept
Architecture	I-General_Concept
Search	I-General_Concept
on	O
UAI	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
research	O
findings	O
served	O
as	O
the	O
groundwork	O
for	O
the	O
techniques	O
utilized	O
by	O
Abacus.AI	B-Application
.	O
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