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Eugene Yan launches fashion image classification API, later discontinued

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Eugene Yan has launched a product image classification API, initially focused on fashion e-commerce. The API achieved a Top-1 validation accuracy of 0.76 and Top-5 accuracy of 0.974, returning results in under 300 milliseconds. It was built using Keras and Theano and operated on a small AWS server without a GPU. However, the API has since been discontinued to reduce cloud costs. AI

RANK_REASON This is a product launch of an API, but it is not from a major AI lab and has since been discontinued.

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Eugene Yan launches fashion image classification API, later discontinued

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    A simple web app to classify fashion images into Amazon categories.

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