Rob Munro

Robert Monarch, PhD (formerly Robert Munro), is an expert in combining human and machine intelligence who currently lives in San Francisco and works at Apple. Robert has worked in Sierra Leone, Haiti, the Amazon, London, and Sydney, in organizations ranging from startups to the United Nations. He was the CEO and founder of Idibon, the CTO of Figure Eight, and he led Amazon Web Services’s first natural language processing and machine translation services.

books by Rob Munro

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

  • June 2021
  • ISBN 9781617296741
  • 424 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning lays out methods for humans and machines to work together effectively. You’ll find best practices on selecting sample data for human feedback, quality control for human annotations, and designing annotation interfaces. You’ll learn to create training data for labeling, object detection, and semantic segmentation, sequence labeling, and more. The book starts with the basics and progresses to advanced techniques like transfer learning and self-supervision within annotation workflows.