Facebook Launches Open-Source Reasoning Systems Tool
October 16 2019 - 3:57PM
Dow Jones News
By Kimberly Chin
Facebook Inc.'s (FB) artificial-intelligence division has
launched an open-source platform called ReAgent that helps users
build artificial-intelligence-based models that can make decisions
on its own.
The company plans to use ReAgent to improve personalization
within Facebook's services. It hopes to move away from writing
manual rules to more feedback-based predictions that would surface
relevant content before any given person.
Facebook said the tool can also be used across many industries,
and can be used with such services as Microsoft Corp.'s
cloud-platform (MSFT) Azure.
ReAgent will have a small C++ library that can be used and
embedded in any application.
Overall, ReAgent is a suite of tools that creates models that
can make decisions as well as obtain feedback from those decisions,
the company said. Additionally, Facebook said, the tools offer ways
to evaluate how new models perform before they're deployed and
helps users scale their platform.
Facebook said ReAgent builds off of its first open-source,
artificial-intelligence platform called Horizon, which optimizes
systems in large-scale production environments. Horizon will become
a part of ReAgent, the company said.
Write to Kimberly Chin at kimberly.chin@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 16, 2019 15:42 ET (19:42 GMT)
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