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  2. March 2020 News

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  10. Jukebox: We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.

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  15. Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers

  16. Generating Diverse High-Fidelity Images with VQ-VAE-2

  17. Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits—By studying the connections between neurons, we can find meaningful algorithms in the weights of neural networks

  18. Sequence Modeling With CTC: A visual guide to Connectionist Temporal Classification, an algorithm used to train deep neural networks in speech recognition, handwriting recognition and other sequence problems

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