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Achieving Self-Serve Onboarding for MLOps Tooling

This article is co-authored by Trevor LaViale, Machine Learning Solutions Engineer at Arize AI

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Elastic Translation Workflows: Trade-off Between Translation Speed and Costs

Wayfair is a company that believes growth is built on a strong global presence. Localization is a key element in successfully establishing ourselves in many markets and achieving the desired growth.

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Wayfair Public Cloud Tech Transformation Earns Google Cloud Customer Award for 2023 Retail Industry

Wayfair brings products to life through digitally created imagery enabled by ML/AI sciences. Over the last several years, we’ve been investing in building 3D capabilities to achieve this at both a scale and cost not possible with traditional photography. Creation of these 3D renders requires significant computation (rendering) capabilities. In May 2022, Wayfair embarked on a Public Cloud Tech transformation journey from our own on-premise data center to the Google Cloud (GCP) which significantly added to our GCP operating costs.

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Griffin: How Wayfair Leverages Reinforcement Learning to Send Customers Relevant Communications

“Griffin” learns from millions of customer interactions daily to continuously improve customer experience and engagement.

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Driving Customer Obsession Through Technology

Last month I attended the Zinnov Confluence – India Edition. For anyone not familiar with the event, it delivers a forum for global brands to share their experiences and perspectives around disruptive technologies, new digital business models, and leadership paradigms that can help bring India’s incredible technology ecosystem into the global community.

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Championing Generative AI within Your Business

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Transform 2023 in San Francisco, an event dedicated solely to an innovation that has taken the industry by storm, Generative AI. It was a great event that attracted speakers from a variety of iconic brands, including Google, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, Fidelity Investments, eBay, FedEx Dataworks, McDonald's Corp, Intel, and the list goes on.

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Wayfair intern Sachin Chhabra: 3 reasons why Wayfair is an “incredible” place for science interns

As a scientist at Wayfair, Sachin Chhabra is helping fulfill the company’s mission of enabling customers to create their own sense of home. To this end, Chhabra utilizes state of the art machine learning techniques to surface relevant product recommendations to customers.

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Four Questions with Tulia Plumettaz

We recently celebrated International Women’s Month. What does this mean to you? How did you celebrate it?

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Accelerating Catalog Tagging Automation with Snorkel’s Data-Centric AI Platform: Wayfair’s Success Story

One of our missions at Wayfair is to help our 22 million customers find the products they are looking for. For example, when a customer searches for a “modern yellow sofa” on Wayfair, we want to show the most relevant options from the tens of thousands of sofas available in our catalog. To do that, it is important to have a strong understanding of the products we sell. We use machine learning algorithms to analyze and understand the descriptive information (e.g. color, shape) of over 40 million products provided by more than 20 thousand suppliers in our catalog.