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Reserach intern Stability AI, co-founder @arabicml2 , founding member @fihmai .

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3 years
Pleased to announce Calliar, the first online dataset for Arabic Calligraphy. Joint work with @_MagedSaeed_ @alwaridi and Yousif Al-Wajih. Paper: Code & data: Colab:
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Pleased to announce fast image-to-image translation in the browser. With 3 trained models introduced. Also I released a processed dataset of 1000 images for edges2cats translation. Demo: Code:
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I found it contains many ML resources like datasets( 684K), notebooks (170), virtual machine images for deep learning (4) and many other resources.
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Trained a stylegan on Arabic Calligraphy (1/3)
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AttentioNN series 1. Attention maps 2. Attention in NMT 3. Attention in Image Captioning 4. Attention in Transofrmer Models 4.1 4.2
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Gradient Flow: a new notebook that explains automatic differentiation using eager execution in @TensorFlow . I go over computational graphs, vector valued functions, gradient, etc ..
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The first Colab notebook in a series called AttentioNN to describe attention in neural networks. 1. Attention Maps : Repo:
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Trained stylegan on high resolution Islamic mosaic art. You can find all resources below and even do interpolation and other fun stuff. GitHub: Colab:
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These were my best courses I took in Machine Learning in no particular order * Coursera Machine Learning by @AndrewYNg * CS231n course from Stanford by @karpathy and @jcjohnss * Fastai courses on practical machine learning by @jeremyphoward What about yours ?
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In this notebook I explore the brand new @TensorFlow 2.0. I discuss basic ops, gradients, data preprocessing and augmentation, training and saving. Link: Others:
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TF 2.0 is here! Here is an updated notebook on the new features. @fchollet @random_forests colab: check others:
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Check my tutorials for Swift For TensorFlow all in @GoogleColab
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Thrilled to announce I guest-authored a chapter in @OReillyMedia ’s Practical Deep Learning book () on 'AI in the Browser'! It teaches quickly building applications with TensorFlow.js: pix2pix, GANs, pose estimation + deep insights from tfjs & @ml5js teams.
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Just subscribed to Colab Pro. The main advantages are * Execlusive excess to faster GPUs and TPUs * Duration for connection is 24 hrs * Larger memory ~ 27 GB In this thread I will share my experience
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I used to create many architectures in deep learning. It is a great website. Check it out!
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This face model is my favorite; try it here
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A simple notebook to remove the background of objects using Mask R-CNN. I utilized this notebook to train the pix2pix model. Try it here:
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Eager Execution Enabled In this notebook I explain different concepts in eager execution. I go over variables, ops, gradients, custom gradients, callbacks, metrics and creating models with tf.keras and saving/restoring them.
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🚀Introducing CIDAR: the first open Arabic instruction dataset culturally-aligned by native Arabic speakers. CIDAR contains 10,000 instructions and outputs capturing the essence of the Arab region and its unique culture. CIDAR can be used to fine-tune Arabic LLMs to follow
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1/7. Excited to announce the largest public catalogue of Arabic text and speech datasets: Masader, with 200 datasets. Work with/ @superrzk , @alwaridi and @_MagedSaeed_ .Part of data sourcing efforts @BigscienceW 🌸🧵 paper: masader:
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I am creating my own blog. I am going to talk about PhD life, mental health and some projects. I need your recommendations for what platform to use and themes to go with.
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How to capture rich patterns in label-free data ? Currently taking Deep Unsupervised Learning by @pabbeel , et al. The website contains all the materials!
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Fine-tuned wave2vec from @facebookai on Egyptian dialect using @huggingface . The model was trained on ~ 5 hours of audio and got ~ 0.5 WER on the test set. You can try the model using your mic on colab
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Lesson 5: Deep Dream implementation using Swift for TensorFlow. Colab:
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Swift + TensorFlow is a next-generation platform for machine learning that incorporates differentiable programming. In this notebook a go over its basics and also how to create a simple NN and CNN. Notebook:
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Zaid زيد
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BigGan Experiments (1/N): Using z, np.sin(z) pairs on the z-vector space can generate images with the same foreground but different background.
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We are pleased to release, whisperar: finetuned whisper models on Arabic. We achieve better WER in multiple datasets. Powered by @arabicml2 open source community. Thanks to @huggingface and @LambdaAPI for the compute. GitHub: Demo:
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BigGanEx Notebook An introduction to BigGans, latent space and the truncation trick. Moreover, some cool experiments are introduced. Thanks to @ajmooch for helping with some concepts.
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I ported three models to @runwayml Yolact: object detection and segmentation DeRaindrop: remove rain drops Edge-connect: Image inpainting
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Added the largest publicly available dataset for Arabic to @huggingface . This dataset can be used for unsupervised training for models like GPT-2 and BERT. Here is a minimal code for loading the dataset
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I found it really useful to keep track of tensor shapes. I will try to do it more often in my future notebooks.
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Announcing 'klaam" a library for Arabic speech recognition and classification as part of @arabicml2 . The library allows prediction and training by fine tuning wav2vec models using @huggingface . github: colab :
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18 notebooks covering 1. Data preparation, generation and preprocessing 2. Classification, segmentation and detection 3. Transfer Learning and Deployment 4. BigGans 5. TPU training etc ..
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Zaid زيد
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With colab, @github and @TensorFlow .js you can train, convert and deploy a model super fast. All of this in just one notebook and solely in the browser. No GPU setup, no server for running the model on the browser.
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Real time face segmentation in the browser ... Demo: Code :
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I made a notebook to explain how to work with Eager Execution in @TensorFlow . EE allows you to evaluate operations immediately. Moreover, I explained how to watch the gradient of an arbitrary loss function and update the parameters of a CNN model.
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Zaid زيد
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If you are publishing an Arabic NLP dataset, please consider adding it to Masader. We have reached 210 annotated datasets.
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I have lost many opportunities for conferences and summer schools because of visa difficulties. Your nationality is becoming a barrier between you and excelling in your field.
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After five years of amazing research. Today I successfully defended my PhD thesis. More to come in the future 🙌
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In the last five months, I have been part of @BigScienceW 🌸an open research environment hosted by @huggingface with +700 researchers from around the world. I have co-authored two papers and there are two more in the making. What was it like ? ,🧵
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This presentation by @AlecRad from @OpenAI is just amazing. An overview of the NLP research that every one should watch. Thanks @pabbeel for making it happen.
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Zaid زيد
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I always look up to @hardmaru as an inspirational figure. With only 4 years experience in Neural Networks, he co-authored many interesting papers like Sketch-RNN and World Models. He explained his work in this presentation
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3 out of 3 papers accepted at ACL main and findings track.
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It has been two years since we founded @arabicml2 with @_MagedSaeed_ to democratize Arabic NLP. Here is a summary of the open source work we have done so far 0/10. thread🧵
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Play with face editing SC-FEGAN directly in @GoogleColab Notebook: Others:
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I made a very simple api for stylegan training and visualization. Now you can train on any dataset in any resolution in just 6 lines of code. All @GoogleColab notebooks available on GitHub:
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Masader Plus: A New Interface for Exploring +500 Arabic NLP Datasets. By our open research community @arabicml2 . Paper : Website: Main: APIs: Video:
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A robust edges2cats model with a new processed dataset, check live demo other resources below. cc: . @phillip_isola
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I tried to port the work of @ch402 @zzznah @ludwigschubert on Feature Visualization to @runwayml . Read more about Feature Vsiualization
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Some progress into generating readable calligraphy. The first row is the name "أحمد" (Ahmad) and the second row is the name "محمد" (Mohammad).
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Face image to faces translation. A new model added to the pix2pix in browser drawing. Try it here
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Open research: this is becoming my passion
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محاضرتي في في @fihmai عن تطبيقات الذكاء الإصطناعي في مجال اللغة العربية Slides: Colab: Video:
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We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk . We create a catalogue for Arabic NLP tools with colab notebooks to test them. Website: GitHub:
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1/4. We are excited to release "Taqyim: Evaluating Arabic NLP Tasks Tasks Using ChatGPT Models". The latest work from our @arabicml2 w/ @_MagedSaeed_ @bkhmsi @hamzahluqman_ @EbrahimAlareqi @alihfadel . Paper: Code:
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I created a notebook to illustrate how to make some cool gifs by interpolation in the BigGan latent space. Use a the same class or interpolate between different classes. check:
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A collection of 12 notebooks that I created with @GoogleColab , Fork … and run them directly in colab. If you have any suggestions for future notebooks post them below.
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More styles of generated Calligraphy
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BigGan Experiments (3/N): z-sin(z) creates interpolations centered at 0.
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Zaid زيد
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Today I reached 1k citations with +60% papers having +10 citations. I want to thank my collaborators from @BigscienceW , @arabicml2 , and @KFUPM . I will continue working on open source models, datasets, and tools.
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We are supporting @huggingface datasets for our Arabic cleaning library @arabicml2 . We are looking forward to support other tools like tokenizers.
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I created an xml file that you can upload to to reuse some of the deep learning moduels I made
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We at @arabicml2 would like to support people working on the intersection of Arabic and machine learning. If you are a graduate student or an engineer working on NLP/Speech who need guidance or would like to brainstorm come talk to us.
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Third notebook in AttentioNN series. Image captioning using soft attention and doubly stochastic regularization with tf 2.0 Link: others: cc @fchollet @random_forests
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Ashaar (أشعار): The Largest Study on Arabic Poetry Analysis & Generation w/ @_MagedSaeed_ , Moataz Ahmed . Took us 5 years to finalize. We release 10 resources: 4 datasets and 6 models. Code: Paper: Demo:
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I just published “A Gentle Introduction to TensorFlow.js” #Tensorflowjs #Deeplearning #javascript
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Zaid زيد
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Looking forward to dicsuss more about Arabic NLP at . Thanks @YJernite and @huggingface for setting it up. There are many other rooms for other languages. Creating such communities for every language is an important step for democritizing NLP.
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Excited to announce @arabicml2 Board where we host Arabic researchers to talk about their interesting papers. Stay tuned for a series of exciting talks in the next few weeks.
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Delighted to announce that our paper on "ARBML: Democratizing Arabic Natural Language Processing Tools" ( @arabicml2 ) has been accepted at @emnlp2020 NLP-OSS workshop. A joint work with @_MagedSaeed_ .
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Now we have three main modules for speech inference and training.
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This is one of the reasons we created @arabicml2 . We want to design processors, tokenizers, datasets and models specific for Arabic. It is important to understand that most algorithms in nlp are not language-agnostic. Many have been only demonstrated in English.
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Sebastian Ruder
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Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English 7000+ languages are spoken around the world but NLP research has mostly focused on English. In this post, I give an overview of why you should work on languages other than English.
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U-Net segmentation Notebook The easiest way to train and test segmentation models. Thanks @ldenoue for the resources! Link:
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@hardmaru If the research objective is to get into big institutes or becoming popular then it will be difficult for the mentioned reasons. However, why not doing research for fun? for tackling problems that you think matter?
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New trained model for Arabic text to speech. The model is available in our repo at @arabicml2 .
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Intro to Deep Learning from @SCSatCMU . The lecture notes and assignments (automatically graded) are available for public. Check .
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Our paper "Arabic Compact Language Modelling for Resource Limited Devices" has been accepted to #WANLP2021 @eaclmeeting . We show that you can train smaller models on smaller datasets for Arabic and get reasonable results in multiple tasks. A join work with Irfan Ahmad.
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If you are looking for quick review of neural networks and convolutional neural network concepts then is a great resource.
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Arabic is ranked 6 in terms of the number of datasets @huggingface with around 54 entries. A wide range of datasets tackling monolingual and multilingual tasks.
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Glad to have participated in supporting Arabic in this effort. In one week we have two instruction datasets for Arabic 🚀. Time to build many Arabic LLMs in 2024.
@CohereForAI
Cohere For AI
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Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models.
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سأتكلم عن تطبيقات الذكاء الإصطناعي في معالجة اللغة العربية المحاضرة ستكون باللغة العربية
@fihmai
fihm.ai فِهم للذكاء الاصطناعي
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لازال باب التسجيل مفتوح في #مدرسة_فهم_الصيفية للتعلم العميق بادروا بالتسجيل للاستفادة من نخبة من المتمكنين في مجال #الذكاء_الاصطناعي و #التعلم_العميق مع تقديم شهادات حضور بعد اتمام المتطلبات
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Very cool! I always needed something like this! Great job!
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For a month I've been working on an open source tool for labelling images in a browser - here it is @justadudewhohax @benhamner @PyImageSearch @lavanyaai @shiffman Maybe you'll find it useful in the next ML/CV project? visit GH:
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I have been contacted by some instructors about the possibility of using my notebooks as part of some courses. The notebooks are purely educational. So feel free to use them (MIT license).
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Face segmentation and reconstruction from webcam Code: Demo:
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Feature Visualization by @ch402 @zzznah @ludwigschubert . I cannot praise enough how well-written this paper is! Enjoying every bit of it with the accompanying notebooks.
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I think it is a good practice to cite the code you copy from either stackoverflow, github, etc. I usually put the link to the original post.
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Soon! ML models in Arabic ;)
@arabicml2
arbml
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قريباً
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Fast pix2pix in the Browser. I made a complete walk-though of the implementation from training to prediction on the browser see post
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Looking for research internships in NLP preferably remote. Would like to investigate multilinguality and cross lingual transfer learning, open to other problems as well. Please pass around.
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Transformer I: The encoder layer in the transformer model with a detailed description of positional encoding, multi-head attention etc. check AttentioNN:
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Honestly, this is becoming my favorite resources website!
@MadeWithML
Made With ML
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Here is a newish feature we weren’t sure if worthy of a tweet but came up in conversation 😅 You can now filter by content type(s) to find the right type of resource when you search. Here we search resources for `self-supervised-learning` that have `code` and `video`. Details 👇
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Create new paintings in real time Demo: Code:
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Every week on Thursday we organize a meeting using hangout were we discuss machine learning and present live coding sessions. The requirements are 1. Basic ML/Deep learning 2. Have time to participate in the meetings Resister here
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Paper accepted at LREC!
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Zaid زيد
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1/7. Excited to announce the largest public catalogue of Arabic text and speech datasets: Masader, with 200 datasets. Work with/ @superrzk , @alwaridi and @_MagedSaeed_ .Part of data sourcing efforts @BigscienceW 🌸🧵 paper: masader:
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Now, the RAM on colab could reach up to 25 GB!
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