Benjamin Lee

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    Gmail Smart Compose: Real-Time Assisted Writing
    Jackie Tsay
    Justin Lu
    Shuyuan Zhang
    Tim Sohn
    Yinan Wang
    Yonghui Wu
    Yuan Cao
    Zhifeng Chen
    KDD 2019 (2019)
    Preview abstract In this paper, we present Smart Compose, a novel system for generating interactive, real-time suggestions in Gmail that assists users in writing mails by reducing repetitive typing. In the design and deployment of such a large-scale and complicated system, we faced several challenges including model selection, performance evaluation, serving and other practical issues. At the core of Smart Compose is a large-scale neural language model. We leveraged state-of-the-art machine learning techniques for language model training which enabled high-quality suggestion prediction, and constructed novel serving infrastructure for high-throughput and real-time inference. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed system design and deployment approach. This system is currently being served in Gmail. View details