We’ve built and recently deployed a new AI technology called Few-Shot Learner (FSL) that can adapt to take action on new or evolving types of harmful content within weeks instead of months. It not only works in more than 100 languages, but it also learns from different kinds of data, such as images and text, and it can strengthen existing AI models that are already deployed to detect other types of harmful content.

We’ve built and deployed an innovative system called Reinforcement Integrity Optimizer (RIO). RIO is an end-to-end optimized reinforcement learning (RL) framework. It’s now used to optimize hate speech classifiers that automatically review all content uploaded to Facebook and Instagram.

We develop the first micro-estimates of wealth and poverty that cover the populated surface of near 100 low and middle-income countries. Together with UC Berkeley, Facebook’s Data for Good team released the Relative Wealth Index data to support COVID-19 economic recovery and equitable vaccine distribution across the world using AI (paper).

We have a responsibility to keep the people on our platforms safe, and dealing with hate speech is one of the most complex and important components of this work. To better protect people, we have AI tools to quickly — and often proactively — detect this content.

Tetris Planner: Optimizing Facebook Data Warehouse Data Placement

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Facebook's data warehouse has 9+ data centers around the world, which hosts exabytes of data for analytics and machine learning. Planner was deployed to all Facebook's data centers and successfully rebalancing petabytes of data daily.