Manik Varma

Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma

In Episode 63 of the Microsoft Research Podcast, Dr. Varma tells us all about extreme classification (including where in the world you might actually run into 10 or 100 million options), reveals how his Parabel and Slice algorithms are making high-quality recommendations in milliseconds, and proves, with both his life and his work, that being blind need not be a barrier to extreme accomplishment.