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Preface
The rapid development of information technology in China since the twenty-first
century has completely changed the way people study, work, and live. As a key
research topic in information science, artificial intelligence, also known as AI, has
gonethroughtumultuouslygoodandhardtimeseversincetheconceptwascoined
halfacenturyago.ItisinspiringtoseethatAIhasachievedatremendousprogress
andhasbeenappliedinawiderangeoffieldsoverthepastseveralyears,asaresult
of the advancements in computing power and big data technology. Today, AI is
developing at an exponential rate, and its fruits will be continuously consolidated
anddeepened.
Despiteitsdrawbacks,thefutureofAIisbelievedtobepromising.AsChinahas
put AI on its national agenda, the interests of almost all the industries have been
triggered,andtherelevantpractitionersareeagertoknowthestatusquoandresearch
hotspotsofAI,aswellasitsbasicprinciplesandresearchmethodologies.
AlthoughabulkofAIthemedbookshavebeenpublishedbothinChinaandthe
world, providing insightful and precise analysis covering almost all the topics of
almosttheentireAIsub-disciplines,wehavetoadmitthattheycouldbeesotericfor
beginners.ArtificialIntelligenceisatypicalinterdisciplinaryscienceconcernedwith
wide-ranging aspects and a subject unlikely to be exhausted by only one or two
monographs. Therefore, this book aims at presenting our readers fundamental AI
knowledge through a streamlined structure and thought-provoking cases. As a
Chinesesayinggoes,“theteachercanteachyoutheskills,butitdependsonyourself
tomasterthem.” Weexpect our readers could find thetopicsthey are interested in
afterreadingthisbookandpressaheadwithmorein-depthstudies.
Sinceintelligenceisaverycomplicatedsubject,differentpeoplecouldgenerate
distinctiveunderstandingandsimulationofintelligencefromdifferentperspectives
andviewpoints.Therefore,thisbookexploresAIfromdiversifiedperspectivesinthe
eight chapters. Chapter 1 is the general introduction, which introduces the origin,
technology, fields of application, and trend of the development of AI, as well as
Huawei’s AI development strategy. Chapter 2 focuses on the machine learning,
illustrating the types, overall process, and the popular algorithms of machine
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learning, such as the decision trees, support vector machine, and clustering algo-
rithmscommonlyinusetoday.Chapter3givesanoverviewtothedeeplearningby
reviewingitsevolvement,andelaboratingonitstrainingrules,activationfunctions,
regularization, and optimizers on the basis of neural networks, a widely adopted
approach in deep learning. Chapter 4 is about the deep learning frameworks,
exemplified by TensorFlow 2.0 as one of the three mainstream frameworks.
Chapter 5 brings up the topic of MindSpore, centering on the AI development
frameworkofHuaweiandMindSpore’sdevelopmentandapplication.Chapter6is
aboutHuaweiAtlasAIcomputingsolution,withthediscussionrevolvingaroundthe
software and hardware architecture of Ascend AI processor, Atlas AI computing
platform, and its industrial applications. Chapter 7 introduces Huawei’s smart
terminal AI open platform known as the HUAWEI HiAI platform and the apps
developed on it. Chapter 8 looks at the enterprise intelligence application platform
HuaweiCLOUDbytakingHuaweiCLOUDEIandModelArtsasmajorexamples.
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Contents
1 AGeneralIntroductiontoArtificialIntelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 TheConceptofArtificialIntelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.1 WhatIsArtificialIntelligence?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 TheRelationshipBetweenAI,MachineLearning,
andDeepLearning. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . 4
1.1.3 TypesofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.4 TheHistoryofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.5 TheThreeMainSchoolsofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.2 AI-RelatedTechnologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.2.1 DeepLearningFramework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2.2 AnOverviewofAIProcessor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2.3 EcosystemofAIIndustry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2.4 HuaweiCLOUDEnterpriseIntelligenceApplication
Platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.3 TheTechnologiesandApplicationsofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.3.1 TheTechnologiesofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.3.2 TheApplicationsofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 29
1.3.3 TheCurrentStatusofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.4 Huawei’sAIDevelopmentStrategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.4.1 Full-StackAll-ScenarioAISolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.4.2 DirectionsofHuaweiFull-StackAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.5 TheControversyofAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.5.1 AlgorithmicBias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.5.2 PrivacyIssues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1.5.3 TheContradictionBetweenTechnologyandEthics. . . . . 37
1.5.4 WillEveryoneBeUnemployed?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.6 TheDevelopmentTrendsforAI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.7 ChapterSummary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
1.8 Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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2 MachineLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.1 IntroductiontoMachineLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.1.1 RationalUnderstandingofMachineLearning
Algorithms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.1.2 MajorProblemsSolvedbyMachineLearning. . . . . . . . . 46
2.2 TypesofMachineLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.2.1 SupervisedLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.2.2 UnsupervisedLearning. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 48
2.2.3 Semi-supervisedLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.2.4 ReinforcementLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2.3 TheOverallProcessofMachineLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
2.3.1 DataCollection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.3.2 DataCleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.3.3 FeatureSelection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
2.3.4 TheConstructionofMachineLearningModels. . . . . . . . 56
2.3.5 ModelEvaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
2.4 ModelParametersandHyperparameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2.4.1 GradientDescent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
2.4.2 ValidationSetandHyperparameterSearch. . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.4.3 Cross-validation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
2.5 CommonAlgorithmsofMachineLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
2.5.1 LinearRegression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
2.5.2 LogisticRegression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
2.5.3 DecisionTree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
2.5.4 SupportVectorMachine. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 75
2.5.5 K-NearestNeighborAlgorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
2.5.6 NaiveBayes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2.5.7 EnsembleLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2.5.8 ClusteringAlgorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
2.6 CaseStudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
2.7 ChapterSummary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
2.8 Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
3 OverviewofDeepLearning. . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. 87
3.1 IntroductiontoDeepLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.1.1 DeepNeuralNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3.1.2 TheDevelopmentofDeepLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
3.1.3 PerceptronAlgorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
3.2 TrainingRules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
3.2.1 LossFunction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
3.2.2 GradientDescent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3.2.3 BackpropagationAlgorithm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
3.3 ActivationFunction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
3.4 Regularization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
3.4.1 ParameterNormPenalty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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3.4.2 DatasetExpansion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
3.4.3 Dropout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3.4.4 EarlyStopping. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 105
3.5 Optimizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 106
3.5.1 Momentum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
3.5.2 AdagradOptimizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.5.3 RMSpropOptimizer. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 108
3.5.4 AdamOptimizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
3.6 TypesofNeuralNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.6.1 ConvolutionalNeuralNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.6.2 RecurrentNeuralNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
3.6.3 GenerativeAdversarialNetwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
3.7 CommonProblems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.7.1 ImbalancedData. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.7.2 VanishingGradientandExplodingGradient. . . . . . . . . . 120
3.7.3 Overfitting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
3.8 ChapterSummary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
3.9 Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
4 DeepLearningFrameworks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.1 IntroductiontoDeepLearningFrameworks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.1.1 IntroductiontoPyTorch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.1.2 IntroductiontoMindSpore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
4.1.3 IntroductiontoTensorFlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
4.2 TensorFlow2.0Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
4.2.1 IntroductiontoTensorFlow2.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
4.2.2 IntroductiontoTensors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
4.2.3 TensorFlow2.0EagerExecution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
4.2.4 TensorFlow2.0AutoGraph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
4.3 IntroductiontoTensorFlow2.0Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
4.3.1 IntroductiontoCommonModules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
4.3.2 KerasInterface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
4.4 GetStartedwithTensorFlow2.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.4.1 EnvironmentSetup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.4.2 DevelopmentProcess. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
4.5 ChapterSummary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
4.6 Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5 HuaweiMindSporeAIDevelopmentFramework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.1 IntroductiontoMindSporeDevelopmentFramework. . . . . . . . . . 137
5.1.1 MindSporeArchitecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.1.2 HowIsMindSporeDesigned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
5.1.3 AdvantagesofMindSpore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
5.2 MindSporeDevelopmentandApplication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
5.2.1 EnvironmentSetup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
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5.2.2 ComponentsandConceptsRelatedtoMindSpore. . . . . . 150
5.2.3 RealizationofHandwrittenDigitRecognitionwith
Mindspore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
5.3 ChapterSummary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
5.4 Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
6 HuaweiAtlasAIComputingSolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.1 TheHardwareArchitectureofAscendAIProcessor. . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.1.1 TheLogicArchitectureofAscendAIProcessor
Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.1.2 DaVinciArchitecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.2 TheSoftwareArchitectureofAscendAIProcessor. . . . . . . . . . . . 168
6.2.1 TheLogicArchitectureofAscendAIProcessor
Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
6.2.2 TheNeuralNetworkSoftwareFlowofAscendAI
Processor. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. 171
6.2.3 IntroductiontotheFunctionalModulesofAscendAI
ProcessorSoftwareFlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.2.4 TheDataFlowofAscendAIProcessor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
6.3 AtlasAIComputingSolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
6.3.1 AtlasforAITrainingAcceleration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
6.3.2 AtlasDevice-Edge-CloudCollaboration. . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
6.4 IndustrialImplementationofAtlas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
6.4.1 Electricity:One-StopICTSmartGridSolution. . . . . . . . 214
6.4.2 IntelligentFinance:HolisticDigitalTransformation. . . . . 215
6.4.3 IntelligentManufacturing:DigitalIntegrationof
MachinesandThoughts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
6.4.4 IntelligentTransportation:EasierTravelandImproved
Logistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
6.4.5 SuperComputer:BuildingState-LevelAIPlatform. . . . . 217
6.5 ChapterSummary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
6.6 Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7 HUAWEIAIOpenPlatform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
7.1 IntroductiontoHUAWEIHiAIPlatform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
7.1.1 ArchitectureofHUAWEIHiAIPlatform. . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
7.1.2 HUAWEIHiAIFoundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
7.1.3 HUAWEIHiAIEngine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
7.1.4 HUAWEIHiAIService. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
7.2 ApplicationDevelopmentBasedonHUAWEIHiAIPlatform. . . . 227
7.3 PartoftheHUAWEIHiAISolutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.3.1 HUAWEIHiAIHelpingtheDeafandDumb. . . . . . . . . . 231
7.3.2 HUAWEIHiAIEnhancingtheVisualEffects
ofYuanbeiDrivingTestApplication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
7.3.3 HUAWEIHiAIEmpoweringCtripTravel. . . . . . . . . . . . 233
