Algorithms / Numerical Techniques

Jul 29, 2024

Building Spatial Intelligence from Real-World 3D Data Using Deep-Learning Framework fVDB

Generative physical AI models can understand and execute actions with fine or gross motor skills within the physical world. Understanding and navigating in the...

6 MIN READ

Jul 18, 2024

Accelerating Vector Search: NVIDIA cuVS IVF-PQ Part 2, Performance Tuning

In the first part of the series, we presented an overview of the IVF-PQ algorithm and explained how it builds on top of the IVF-Flat algorithm, using the...

14 MIN READ

Jul 18, 2024

Accelerating Vector Search: NVIDIA cuVS IVF-PQ Part 1, Deep Dive

In this post, we continue the series on accelerating vector search using NVIDIA cuVS. Our previous post in the series introduced IVF-Flat, a fast algorithm for...

14 MIN READ

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Jul 05, 2024

Explainer: What Is K-Means?

K-means is a clustering algorithm—one of the simplest and most popular unsupervised machine learning (ML) algorithms for data scientists.

1 MIN READ

May 03, 2024

Visual Language Models on NVIDIA Hardware with VILA

Visual language models have evolved significantly recently. However, the existing technology typically only supports one single image. They cannot reason among...

11 MIN READ

Mar 14, 2024

Applying Mixture of Experts in LLM Architectures

Mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) architectures have recently emerged, both in proprietary LLMs such as GPT-4, as well as in community models...

12 MIN READ

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Mar 08, 2024

cuTENSOR 2.0: Applications and Performance

While part 1 focused on the usage of the new NVIDIA cuTENSOR 2.0 CUDA math library, this post introduces a variety of usage modes beyond that, specifically...

9 MIN READ

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Mar 08, 2024

cuTENSOR 2.0: A Comprehensive Guide for Accelerating Tensor Computations

NVIDIA cuTENSOR is a CUDA math library that provides optimized implementations of tensor operations where tensors are dense, multi-dimensional arrays or array...

17 MIN READ

Oct 10, 2023

Event: AI and Data Science Virtual Summit

Meta, NetworkX, Fast.ai, and other industry leaders share how to gain new insights from your data with emerging tools.

1 MIN READ

Oct 02, 2023

Accelerated Vector Search: Approximating with NVIDIA cuVS Inverted Index

Performing an exhaustive exact k-nearest neighbor (kNN) search, also known as brute-force search, is expensive, and it doesn’t scale particularly well to...

15 MIN READ

Sep 11, 2023

Accelerating Vector Search: Fine-Tuning GPU Index Algorithms

In this post, we dive deeper into each of the GPU-accelerated indexes mentioned in part 1 and give a brief explanation of how the algorithms work, along with a...

12 MIN READ

Sep 11, 2023

Accelerating Vector Search: Using GPU-Powered Indexes with NVIDIA cuVS

In the current AI landscape, vector search is one of the hottest topics due to its applications in large language models (LLM) and generative AI. Semantic...

11 MIN READ

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Aug 04, 2023

ICYMI: Unlocking the Power of GPU-Accelerated DataFrames in Python

Read this tutorial on how to tap into GPUs by importing cuDF instead of pandas–with only a few code changes.

1 MIN READ

Jul 20, 2023

A Comprehensive Guide on Interaction Terms in Time Series Forecasting

Modeling time series data can be challenging (and fascinating) due to its inherent complexity and unpredictability. Long-term trends in time series can change...

8 MIN READ

Jul 19, 2023

Programming the Quantum-Classical Supercomputer

Heterogeneous computing architectures—those that incorporate a variety of processor types working in tandem—have proven extremely valuable in the continued...

9 MIN READ

Jul 11, 2023

Accelerated Data Analytics: Machine Learning with GPU-Accelerated Pandas and Scikit-learn

If you are looking to take your machine learning (ML) projects to new levels of speed and scalability, GPU-accelerated data analytics can help you deliver...

14 MIN READ