

Increasing the adoption of on-device ML deployment will also benefit user privacy, since data for inference workloads remains on-device, not on the server. It will help developers minimize the impact of their ML inference workloads on app memory, app responsiveness, and device battery life. This implementation is specifically optimized for the Apple Neural Engine (ANE), the energy-efficient and high-throughput engine for ML inference on Apple silicon.


This year at WWDC 2022, Apple is making available an open-source reference PyTorch implementation of the Transformer architecture, giving developers worldwide a way to seamlessly deploy their state-of-the-art Transformer models on Apple devices. This architecture helps enable experiences such as panoptic segmentation in Camera with HyperDETR, on-device scene analysis in Photos, image captioning for accessibility, machine translation, and many others. Presumably most of the civilized universe speaks a 'galactic standard' in which they are able to communicate (hence everyone watching TV in 'The Big Broadcast of 2006), which is translated for our benefit.Įven on Cybertron it appears that there are many different forms of writing - compare the glyphs on the Autobot scanner in 'Devastation Derby', the glyphs on the urn in 'Warrior School', the Battlechargers' writing in the aforementioned 'Decepticon Graffiti', and of course the latter-day alphabets used by Hasbro these days (like the one on Siege Prowl).An increasing number of the machine learning (ML) models we build at Apple each year are either partly or fully adopting the Transformer architecture.

There are a few races which the Transformers are not able to understand (e.g., the aliens in 'Kup's Story'), and there have been a few glitches (such as the Battlechargers' poor grammar and spelling in 'Decepticon Graffitti'), so it can't be an automatic thing. In the G1 comic, the Transformers watched TV transmissions, and listened to the radio - it's not just a matter of learning the language, but also the various idioms as well.Įven with a built-in translator, it's hard to believe that the Dinobots would be able to quote lines from 'Carry on Screaming' or 'Lethal Weapon' without having seen those films first-hand.
