Improving Support for Deep Learning in Etsy's ML Platform

Introduction As new machine learning (ML) techniques continue to advance and provide the promise of better performance, platform teams everywhere are trying to adapt to support increasingly complex models. While many models served at Etsy still use "classic" model architectures (such as gradient-boosted trees), there has been a large shift and preference for deep learning techniques. The decision for the Search Ranking (SR) team to use deep learning in particular necessitated advances in ML Plat...

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