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The real world, outside of traditional bounds, is inherently nonlinear. The further evolution of Radio and Optical telecommunications requires sophisticated approaches for mitigation and compensation of nonlinear imperfections of devices and channels. In this lecture we will provide overview of typical nonlinear DSP algorithms, including crest factor reduction (CFR), digital predistortion (DPD) and nonlinear equalization (NLE). We will demonstrate on some examples how they increase performance and efficiency of telecommunication systems, reduce its cost and power consumption. Additionally we will show close connection of these topics with machine learning and neural networks, which is very popular now.

We live in the fast changing world - in the next decade we will become even more integrated with the numerous devices around us, on us and inside us. But all these devices will be managed by software and the most important part of the software is system software – the hidden part of the “iceberg” that actually enables everything else to work – operating systems, core algorithms, network stack, graphics engines, development tools. This talk will present Huawei’s vision on the next generation of such technologies that will “drive the world” in 2020s.

Massive-MIMO is one of the main trend in 5G networks, especially for mmWaves.
This lecture belongs to practical problems of massive-MIMO systems, which appear due to growth of spatial precision in wireless communication. But there are a lot of limitation to keep minimal error in parameter measurements to satisfy of the requirements for such precision systems. In the lecture we try to identify sources of the error, system robustness to these errors, and ways to minimize their impact. Also, it will be mentioned complexity problem for growth system dimensions. And how distributed approach can be used to overcome such problem.

The real world, outside of traditional bounds, is inherently nonlinear. The further evolution of Radio and Optical telecommunications requires sophisticated approaches for mitigation and compensation of nonlinear imperfections of devices and channels. In this lecture we will provide overview of typical nonlinear DSP algorithms, including crest factor reduction (CFR), digital predistortion (DPD) and nonlinear equalization (NLE). We will demonstrate on some examples how they increase performance and efficiency of telecommunication systems, reduce its cost and power consumption. Additionally we will show close connection of these topics with machine learning and neural networks, which is very popular now.
Speaker:
Pavel Plotnikov, Ph.D.
Principal engineer, Leader of Nonlinear Network team in Huawei R&D center, Moscow, Russia

We live in the fast changing world - in the next decade we will become even more integrated with the numerous devices around us, on us and inside us. But all these devices will be managed by software and the most important part of the software is system software – the hidden part of the “iceberg” that actually enables everything else to work – operating systems, core algorithms, network stack, graphics engines, development tools. This talk will present Huawei’s vision on the next generation of such technologies that will “drive the world” in 2020s.
Vladimir Rubanov is CTO for Software Engineering at Russian Huawei R&D and the leader of Operating Systems Lab. His former experience included executive and technical leadership positions at Rosplatforma, Virtuozzo (Parallels Group), ROSA (Russian Operating Systems and Applications) and ISPRAS (Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
Vladimir graduated (M.Sc.) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with absolute honors (GPA 5.0 of 5). Has 50+ scientific publications, 100+ talks at the leading international conferences, academic rank of “Associate Professor in IT” and Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Massive-MIMO is one of the main trend in 5G networks, especially for mmWaves.
This lecture belongs to practical problems of massive-MIMO systems, which appear due to growth of spatial precision in wireless communication. But there are a lot of limitation to keep minimal error in parameter measurements to satisfy of the requirements for such precision systems. In the lecture we try to identify sources of the error, system robustness to these errors, and ways to minimize their impact. Also, it will be mentioned complexity problem for growth system dimensions. And how distributed approach can be used to overcome such problem.
Speaker: Lyashev Vladimir, Head of RTT Lab in MRC.

Разработка программного обеспечения сегодня и двадцать лет назад существенно отличаются: языки программирования стали проще, доступность открытого кода и его объемы возросли во много раз, среды разработки стали мощнее, появились методики и инструменты автоматизации программирования. Однако, мы еще очень далеко от цели. Мы, программисты, по-прежнему делаем ошибки, выпускаем некачественные продукты, и проваливаем большинство проектов (по мнение многих исследователей). В чем же дело и что может стать решением? Мы считаем, что искусственный интеллект может быть новым этапом в развитии индустрии ПО и сможет повысить качество выпускаемых решений. На лекции мы обсудим, как именно это может произойти и каковы наши шансы повлиять на этот тренд.
Егор Бугаенко, руководитель лаборатории системного программирования Московского исследовательского центра Huawei, автор нескольких книг по разработке ПО, в том числе Elegant Objects, об объектно-ориентированном программировании, автор нескольких популярных Java библиотек с открытым кодом, часто выступает на международных конференциях и активно борется за повышение качества работы программистов.

In this lecture we will overview modern question answering algorithms. The algorithms are classified by the source of the information for the answers. It could be knowledge bases (Knowledge Base Quesion Answering), large collection of question-answe pairs (ranking algorithms), the single document (reading comprehension), and even the whole Wikipwdia, or any other very large documents collection (Open Domain question answering). We will consider benefits and drawback of each approach and some examples of their work.
Irina Piontkovskaya, Head of NLP team in Huawei Noah's Ark, Huawei RRI.

The way we develop software today is incomparable with what we were doing twenty years ago: the languages are of a much higher level of abstraction; the availability of open source frameworks and libraries is exceptional; IDEs perfectly automate the majority of routine operations; compilers, linters, and builders are very powerful; continuous delivery practices are almost everywhere, and so on. However, this is not the final destination point yet. We are not even close! We, programmers, still make a lot of mistakes, our software products are full of bugs, and the success rate of software projects is going down every year (according to some industry reports). What is the next? What could be the “silver bullet” to save us from the complexity and instability of software development? We believe that Artificial Intelligence has a very good chance to become one. At the lecture we will discuss how exactly AI can be applied and where are the most interesting research problems to address.
Yegor Bugayenko is a seasoned software development expert, a designer of a few popular open-source Java frameworks, an author of “Elegant Objects” book series about object-oriented programming, a regular speaker at international software conferences, and a passionate advocate of high quality standards of software development.

The way we develop software today is incomparable with what we were doing twenty years ago: the languages are of a much higher level of abstraction; the availability of open source frameworks and libraries is exceptional; IDEs perfectly automate the majority of routine operations; compilers, linters, and builders are very powerful; continuous delivery practices are almost everywhere, and so on. However, this is not the final destination point yet. We are not even close! We, programmers, still make a lot of mistakes, our software products are full of bugs, and the success rate of software projects is going down every year (according to some industry reports). What is the next? What could be the “silver bullet” to save us from the complexity and instability of software development? We believe that Artificial Intelligence has a very good chance to become one. At the lecture we will discuss how exactly AI can be applied and where are the most interesting research problems to address.
Yegor Bugayenko is a seasoned software development expert, a designer of a few popular open-source Java frameworks, an author of “Elegant Objects” book series about object-oriented programming, a regular speaker at international software conferences, and a passionate advocate of high quality standards of software development.

Fueled by the availability of more data and computing power, recent breakthroughs in cloud-based machine learning (ML) have transformed every aspect of our lives from face recognition and medical diagnosis to natural language processing. However, classical ML exerts severe demands in terms of energy, memory and computing resources, limiting their adoption for resource constrained edge devices. The new breed of intelligent devices requires a novel paradigm change calling for distributed, low-latency and reliable ML at the wireless network edge. This talk will explore the potential of the Mobile AI paradigm to unlock the full potential of 5G and beyond. Merouane DEBBAH, IEEE and WWRF Fellow, Director of the Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Paris, France