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Baidu Forced To Withdraw Last Month's ImageNet Test Results

elwinc writes: Back in mid-May, Baidu, a computer research and services organization in Mainland China, announced impressive results on the ImageNet "Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge," besting results posted by Google and Microsoft. Turns out, Baidu gamed the system, creating 30 accounts and running far more than the 2 tests per week allowed in the contest. Having been caught cheating, Baidu has been banned for a year from the challenge. I believe all competitors are using variations on the convolutional neural network, AKA deep network. Running the test dozens of times per week might allow a competitor to pre-tune parameters for the particular problem, thus producing results that might not generalize to other problems. All of which makes it quite ironic that a Baidu scientist crowed "Our company is now leading the race in computer intelligence!"

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  1. Re:WHAT! by retchdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's not called cheating there. the ideograms translate roughly to "auspicious cooperation with jade dragon of opportunity."

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  2. Re:WHAT! by NotDrWho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chinese company caught cheating? NO WAY!

    I almost broke my string of pearls from clutching them so hard. You just don't expect this kind of corruption out of China.

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  3. Re:WHAT! by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that's from Confucius's 65th Rule of Acquisition.

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    SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.