Research

This is the first paper to use a single dataset and methodology to compare the importance of weak ties across countries.

In this paper we explore using relevant Facebook public posts in addition to the news articles to improve summarization of trending news.

This work is part of the Internet.org initiative to provide connectivity all over the world. Population density data is helpful in driving a variety of technology decisions, but currently, a microscopic dataset of population doesn't exist. Current state of the art population density datasets are at ~1000km2 resolution. To create a better dataset, we have obtained 1PB of satellite imagery at 50cm/pixel resolution to feed through our building classification pipeline.

We propose a novel neural network architecture to perform weakly-supervised learning by suppressing irrelevant neuron activations. When applied to a practical challenge of transforming satellite images into a map of settlements and individual buildings it delivers results that show superior performance and efficiency.

We present a hybrid 3D-2D algorithm for stabilizing 360◦ video using a deformable rotation motion model.

We present an automatic video completion algorithm that synthesizes missing regions in videos in a temporally coherent fashion.

Adversarial training has been shown to produce state of the art results for generative image modeling. In this paper we propose an adversarial training approach to train semantic segmentation models.

Measurement and aggregation approaches that are used in performance monitoring are not always useful for capacity planning, while approaches that we use in capacity planning are often meaningless for performance analysis. This paper explores this gap and discusses ways to reconcile the two tasks.

This paper describes in detail the software update mobile deployment process at Facebook.

We explore the gap between measurement and aggregation approaches used in performance monitoring, which are not always useful for capacity planning, vs approaches used in capacity planning are often meaningless for performance analysis, and discusses ways to reconcile the two tasks.