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Overview of research at HP Labs India

Overview of research at HP Labs India. Bristol. Palo Alto. St. Petersburg. Haifa. Beijing. Bangalore. Tokyo. HP Labs around the world. 7 locations. 600 researchers in 23 labs. 20-30 large projects in 8 high-impact areas. High-Impact Research Areas

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Overview of research at HP Labs India

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  1. Overview of research at HP Labs India

  2. Bristol Palo Alto St. Petersburg Haifa Beijing Bangalore Tokyo HP Labs around the world 7 locations 600 researchers in 23 labs 20-30 large projects in 8 high-impact areas

  3. High-Impact Research Areas The next technology challenges and opportunities Digital Commercial Print Intelligent Infrastructure Content Transformation Sustainability Immersive Interaction Cloud Analytics Information Management

  4. Digital Commercial Print End State:Flexible, customized, on-demand printing that replaces the traditional distribution of mass-produced materials HP Labs’ research contribution:Breakthrough technology to accelerate the transformation to digital commercial printing Printing Process Commercial-grade throughput, cost and quality Data Path Efficient processing of massive data streams Color Self-calibration, intuitive rendering Job Creation Automated content generation

  5. End State:Complete convergence of physical and digital information Content Transformation HP Labs’ research contribution:Technologies to transfer content seamlessly from paper to digital and access digital content wherever paper is used today Displays/Materials Unbreakable, conformable, ultra-thin and lightweight; Digital with the look and feel of paper Content Management Intuitive, personalized organization; Intelligent content extraction; Live, interactive documents

  6. Immersive Interaction End state:Intuitive human interaction through and with technology HP Labs’ research contribution:Radically simplify the user experience to make technology more useful, intuitive and pervasive Contextual ServicesDelivering “the right thing at the right time”; Personal paradigms to simplify Web interaction Intuitive InterfacesNatural, multi-modal, computer-human interactions Seamless Collaboration Immersive multimedia communication – anytime, anywhere – with no physical barriers

  7. Information Management End State:The vast universe of enterprise information transformed into immediate, business-relevant insight HP Labs’ research contribution:Redefine the twin tasks of taming and exploiting information to revolutionize enterprise decision making Management Superior analysis, extraction and delivery of massive enterprise content IntelligenceCapabilities to transform massive-scale, real-time data into transactional, operational business intelligence

  8. Analytics End state:Application of mathematic and scientific methodologies create better run businesses HP Labs’ research contribution:Drive secure, informed, highly effective decision making SolutionsPredictive customer behavior; Individual profile learning SoftwareEnhance automation and business processes Services Analytics that address and transform operational efficiency and security

  9. End state: Everything-as-a-Service: Billions of users, millions of services, thousands of service providers, millions of servers, exabytes of data, terabytes of traffic Cloud HP Labs’ research contribution:Develop an integrated cloud stack, from infrastructure to services InfrastructureEnterprise-grade security, capacity and management Services Disrupt traditional industries and offer rich, dynamic experiences

  10. End state: Capture more value via dramatic computing performance and cost improvements Intelligent Infrastructure HP Labs’ research contribution: Radical, new approaches for collecting, storing and transmitting data to feed the exascale data center Networks Programmable, scalable, energy-efficient Data Center Cost and power efficient; Manageable, reliable; Easily programmable Nanotechnology Memristors, Sensors, Photonic Interconnect Intelligent Storage Cloud-scale, dynamic enterprise-grade

  11. Sustainability End state:An IT industry with a light carbon footprint that drives the reduction of carbon emissions throughout the global economy HP Labs’ research contribution:Displace conventional supply chains with sustainable IT ecosystems Data CentersIntegrated, end-to-end management of compute, power & cooling resources from cradle to cradle Tools & MethodologiesReengineer existing value chains using IT to lower environmental footprint

  12. 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards41 awards, 34 universities,14 countries • Stanford University • University of California, Berkeley • University of California, Davis • University of California, San Diego • University of California, Santa Barbara • University of Southern California • University of Toronto • Carnegie Mellon University • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • State University of New York at Buffalo • Rochester Institute of Technology • University of Edinburgh, Scotland • University of Bath, England • University of Leeds, England • University of Bristol, England EMEA Europe, Middle East & Africa • Konstanz University, Germany • Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands • Universidade do Minho, Portugal • Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia • University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia • Bilkent University, Turkey • Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Americas • National Institute of Informatics, Japan • Peking University, China • Tsinghua University, China • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • University of Michigan • University of Wisconsin-Madison • Purdue University • Georgia Institute of Technology • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore APJ • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Asia-Pacific & Japan 12 12 10 September 2014 10 September 2014

  13. Open cloud computing research test bed • A loose federation of “Centers of Excellence” around the globe • UIUC, Singapore IDA, KIT: 3 initial CoE • HP, Intel, Yahoo: 3 initial sponsors with CoE • Research objectives • Multi-datacenter, multi-geography, multi-tenancy, secure, massive scale, open test bed • Each center: 1000-4000 cores and up to PB storage • Base service: PRS (physical resource set) • Required services: Open EC2-like, S3, and Hadoop-on-demand • Plus additional local extensions/variants/service types

  14. HP Labs India

  15. Gesture-based keyboard (GKB)

  16. PrintCast Uplink Side Downlink Side Uplink Dish Receiver Dish & LNBC Solid State Power Amplifier Set Top Box Upconverter PrintCast Decoder Modulator Encoder Television Inserter AV Signal Data from PC Printer

  17. Paper & IT convergenceSecure AiO

  18. HP Labs India • Three ongoing projects • Simplifying web consumption for the next billion (SWAN) – Remainder of this talk • Intuitive multimodal and gestural interaction (IMAGIN) • Paper in the digital enterprise (PRIDE)

  19. SWAN project - Motivation Simplifying web consumption for all • Web is useful but complex to use for non-tech-savvy people • Web has to be useful in the mobile context as well

  20. Why is web consumption complex ? • Each web site forces its own cognitive model on the user • Website decides the interaction model, user has to learn it & remember it • Different websites of the same genre impose their model • Web requires very “low” level instructions • Information access is through query and manual filtering approach • Content adaption, e.g. translation, require a lot of technical skills • Mobile web consumption is challenging • User’s frame of mind is different (limited attention span, distracted) • Devices are resource challenged • Broken web experience across different access methods • experience continuity across broadband, mobile & disconnected connectivity

  21. Web Widgets Browser Scripting Passive consumption State of the art chumby Web Simplification Pipes Personalized Web Content Personalized web pages Alerts Mashups Mobile environments The Gap: Need to SimplifyPersonal WebInteractions - especially for Mobile Environments

  22. Technical Goals • Users to set their own preferred interaction pattern • Enabling users to easily express their own web interaction patterns • Providing a familiar interface to all personal actions on the web • Higher level intent while interacting with services • Implicit web content consumption based on higher user intent expression, user feedback and user profile. • Understanding and translating user intent to web actions • Always responsive interactions • Providing continual interaction across multiple devices & connectivity situations • Providing ‘Responsive-Behavior’ despite disconnections

  23. Approach Create simple interactions for long term and exploratory information needs End user value: Simplify the “Intent -> Query -> Goal” cycle Intent Query Goal User Profiles Query expansion Aggregation, ranking Summarization Google Digg/Delicious Youtube

  24. Using User profiles to personalize services Explicit and Implicit info User Profile Application Data Collection Profile Constructor Personalized services (Search, news, video, shopping) User

  25. Aren’t online portals already doing this? • Online portals and search engines build user profiles using cookies and other stored data (search keywords, web pages accessed) • However, they don’t see all the user data • No way for users to aggregate and reuse the profiles different websites (Google, Yahoo, ..) build using their data • Privacy is a big problem

  26. Implicit profile construction - Prior approaches and their limitations • Word based Approach • Use words in user documents to represent user interests • Problems • Words appear independent of page content (“Home”, “page”) • Polysemy and Synonymy • Large profile sizes • DMOZ approach • Use existing ontology maintained for free • Problems • Too large (about 6 lakh DMOZ nodes), ontology has to be drastically pruned for use • Need to build classifiers for each DMOZ node

  27. Our approach • Use Wikipedia as the language of profile representation, map user documents to Wikipedia concepts • Has bias lower than DMOZ and variance lower than words • Build a hierarchical profile based on Wikipedia • Tag the profile concepts as (transactional or recreational) • Compute recency of user interests in a particular topic

  28. Additional features: titles of the retrieved articles • PlayStation Network Platform • PlayStation 2 • Ducks demo • PlayStation 3 • PlayStation • Ken Kutaragi • PlayStation Portable • Console manufacturer • Sony Group • Crystal Dynamics • PlayStation 3 accessories • … • … query Sony to slash PlayStation3 price Index of Wikipedia dump Mapping documents (web pages) to Wikipedia concepts Item: “Sony to slash PlayStation3 price” Term vector Representation: <sony:1>,<slash:1>, <playstation3:1>,<price:1> Item:“Jittery Sony Knocks $100 Off PS3 Price Tag” Term vector Representation: <jittery:1>, <sony:1>, <knocks:1> <ps3:1>,<price:1>, <tag:1>

  29. Term Vector vs Wikipedia profiles

  30. Constructing the hierarchical profileAlgorithm of Xu et.al. [WWW 2007] Wild life photography (5) Nature photography (10) Photography (15) Support (# pages mapped to this concept) Photography (15) Wild life photography (5) Nature photography (10)

  31. Tagging concepts in user profiles • Two types of tags • Whether the concept is of commercial or recreational interest • Recency of interest • Tagging Commercial interest • Crawl shopping site pages, map pages to concepts and label these concepts as commercial interests • Tagging Recreational interest • Use topics in Wikipedia recreational/hobby categories • Recency of Interest – Sigma(1/e^(today – time page supporting topic last accessed))

  32. Wikipedia based profile

  33. Evaluation results • Profiles are stable (fig 1) • Profile elements with high support have high precision (fig 2) • Profile elements at all levels of the hierarchy have similar precision (fig 3) • Bookmarks are not a good data source for profiles Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 2

  34. Approach Create three additional queries (based on terms with high TF in title, tags and description) Evaluating which expansion is better Example: Query on Youtube for “trains” Expansion using Title train+osbourne+midnight+bullet+rollin+mystery+maglev Description train+runaway+record+version+video+http+track Tags train+railroad+guitar+osbourne+railway+bullet Cross-lingual expansions Baba Ramdev Baba+ramdev+yoga+swami+pranayam+liye+ram+disease+dev+india+dhyan Query expansion – Personalized video

  35. Query expansion - “Find similar” • Problem – Can we construct queries to make getting “similar content” easier ? • Approach - Identify key phrases for text document, query standard search engine, rank results • Retrieving the original document • capture restart+ capture random+random walk+page rank+capture random walk+restart yields • retrieves Hopcroft’s talk at rank 1 in Google Query - Ed Lazowska’s talk Result – Hopcroft’s talk

  36. Query expansion – “Find similar” economic growth global development economic history economic governance adam smith good governance economic growth process modern technology economic+growth+global+development+history+governance+adam+smith+process+rich+good+new+knowledge+cgd+brief+world+property+rights+productivity+labor+human+capital+getting+use+modern+technology+trade+barriers+public+goods+poor+countries+machine+natural+resources+research+intellectua Query

  37. Aggregating search results • Current search interfaces geared to immediate gratification, no way to tradeoff search latency for more relevant results • Different search engines have different coverage, no way to benefit from this • Navigation of results requires clicking back and forth on search results • Search result snippets often misleading

  38. Our solution • To create an aggregated and personalized Information Retrieval (IR) system that • compiles and consolidates the most relevant information on particular topic(s) from the web • automatically creates a PDF document on the topic

  39. Ranking results • Content Based Ranking (based on TF,IDF, Document Boost, Field Boost) • Delicious Vector Cosine Similarity Rank (URL) = d*(CBR) + (1-d) ( DVCS)

  40. User Interface User study results

  41. Additional features: titles of the retrieved articles • PlayStation Network Platform • PlayStation 2 • Ducks demo • PlayStation 3 • PlayStation • Ken Kutaragi • PlayStation Portable • Console manufacturer • Sony Group • Crystal Dynamics • PlayStation 3 accessories • … • … query Sony to slash PlayStation3 price Index of Wikipedia content Document summarization using Wikipedia Algorithm1 Document sentences mapped to Wikipedia concepts Uses in degree of concept-sentence bipartite graph for sentence selection Tested on DUC 2002 data from NIST Would have come in 3rd in the NIST challenge Limitations - Controlling size of the summary - General concepts (e.g. Sports) may win over specific concepts (e.g. Soccer) In degree = 2

  42. Document summarization - Algorithm 2 Intuition : Important sentences in the document map to important concepts and vice versa Propagate sentence importance to concepts and concept importance to sentences over multiple iterations Future work – Size of summary, multi-document summaries, Indian language summaries Accumulate step Broadcast step

  43. Challenge 1 • Better intent expression • Multi-lingual query reformulation • Baba Ramdev • Baba+ramdev+yoga+swami+pranayam+liye+ram+disease+dev+india+dhyan • Interfaces to simplify feedback for query reformulation

  44. Challenge 2 • Long standing queries • Queries spread over time • Learning photography • Information delivery needs to be incremental and non-repetitive • Video retrieval • Channels • Create Initial stickiness • Ensure ongoing interest • Caching – Utility models • What are good evaluation measures for such systems ?

  45. Challenge 3 • Document summarization • Extracting leads • Compression versus missed information • Cross lingual summarization

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