Ann Spencer

Ann Spencer is a senior product marketing manager for Merlin. Prior to joining NVIDIA, she held product and research roles at various data companies. She was also the Data Editor at O'Reilly Media focused on data engineering and data science from 2012-2014.

Posts by Ann Spencer

NVIDIA Merlin recommender workflow.
News 0 Nov 22, 2021

NVIDIA Merlin Extends Open Source Interoperability for Recommender Workflows with Latest Update

Check out NVIDIA Merlin’s latest updates including Transformers4Rec and SparseOperations Kit. 2 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Sep 24, 2021

Accelerating Embedding with the HugeCTR TensorFlow Embedding Plugin

The NVIDIA Merlin recommendation system framework introduces an optimized embedding implementation that is up to 8x more performant and is available as a TensorFlow plugin. 12 MIN READ
News 0 Jul 20, 2021

NVIDIA Earns 1st Place in RecSys Challenge 2021

The NVIDIA Merlin and KGMON team earned 1st place in the RecSys Challenge 2021 by effectively predicting the probability of user engagement within a dynamic environment and providing fair recommendations on a multi-million point dataset. 2 MIN READ
News 0 May 04, 2021

NVIDIA Merlin Latest Enhancements Streamlines Recommender Workflows with .5 Release

The latest Merlin .5 update includes a data generator for training, multi-GPU dataloader, and initial support for session-based recommenders. 3 MIN READ
News 0 Apr 06, 2021

NVIDIA Deepens Commitment to Streamlining Recommender Workflows with GTC Spring Sessions

Here a few key sessions from industry leaders in media, delivery-on-demand, and retail at GTC Spring 2021. 2 MIN READ
News 0 Oct 05, 2020

Announcing the NVIDIA NVTabular Open Beta with Multi-GPU Support and New Data Loaders

Recently, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced updates to the open beta of NVIDIA Merlin, an end-to-end framework that democratizes the development of large-scale… 12 MIN READ