2023
- 2023: “TiDAL: Active Learning Method Based on Model Behavior for Efficient Learning Processes,” at the ICCV 2023
- 2023: 'Research on Setting Thresholds to Simultaneously Satisfy Multiple Classification Criteria in Moderation Environments,' at the WSDM 2023
2022
- 2022: “Measuring and Improving Semantic Diversity of Dialogue Generation” at the EMNLP 2022, the best international conference in the field of natural language processing (NLP)
- 2022: “Noisy Label Learning Through Efficient Transition Matrix Estimation to Prevent Label Miscorrection” at the ECCV 2022, the world’s best image processing conference
- 2022: “Meet Your Favorite Character: An Open Domain Chatbot That Imitates a Virtual Character with Simple Speech” at the NAACL 2022, the world’s most prestigious natural language processing conference
- 2022: “Enhancing Dialogue Generation Model Performance Using Examples” at the ACL 2022 Workshop, the top venue for computational linguistics research
- 2022: “Temporal Knowledge Distillation for On-Device Audio Classification” at the ICASSP 2022, the world’s most prestigious speech signal processing conference
- 2022: Azar Web launch
- Azar Reaches 300 Million Cumulative Users (January 2022)
2021
- Singletown by SLIDE was released
- Hyperconnect starts enterprise business
- Acquired by Match Group
- 2021: “Feature Normalization for Importance Preservation in Click-Through Rate Prediction” awarded Best Paper at the ICDM Workshop, a leading conference in data mining research
- 2021: “Efficient Click-Through Rate Prediction Model Based on Tabular Learning” at the ICLR 2021 Workshop, a prominent event for advancements in deep learning research
- 2021: ”Knowledge Distillation Technique from Large-Scale Generative Model to Search Model for Efficient Everyday Conversation” at the EMNLP 2021, the best international conference in the field of natural language processing (NLP)
2020
- Ranked 6th in global non-game app revenue on Google Play in 2020
- 4th place in all non-game apps in Europe on Google Play in 2020
- Top 10 in 60 countries based on the Apple App Store social network in December 2020
- 2020: ‘Long-Tail Image Classification Problem Solution’ at the 2021 CVPR, the world’s best deep learning conference
- 2020: 'Few-Shot Learning for Text-to-Speech (TTS)' published at INTERSPEECH 2020
2019
- 4th place in all non-game apps in Europe on Google Play in 2020
- Hakuna Live was launched with its subsidiary based in Japan
- 2019: 'Few-Shot Learning for Face Reconstruction' published at AAAI 2020
- 2019: 'Fast-Operating Keyword Spotting Mode (TC-ResNet) on Mobile' published at INTERSPEECH 2019
- 2019: “Lightweight Image Segmentation Model (MMNet) Optimized for Mobile Environments” uploaded to arXiv, a preeminent repository for research papers across various fields
- Azar Reaches 200 Million Cumulative Users (November 2019)
2018
- Sang-il Ahn, Hyperconnect's Founder, won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award
- Selected as one of Forbes' Top 10 Korean Start-ups in 2018
- Ranked 9th in top apps based on all-time user spending in October of 2018, on App Annie (according to Google)
- 2018: 2nd place in the LPIRC, Low Power Image Recognition Challenge at 2018 CVPR, a premier annual computer vision and deep learning event
2017
- Japanese subsidiary founded (MOVEFAST Company)
- Azar Reaches 100 Million Cumulative Users (December 2017)
2016
- Established Singapore subsidiary
- Development of world's first real-time voice translation function for use in a communication environment (Partnered with Google)
2015
- Series A funding ($8.6M, Altos Ventures, SoftBank)
- Azar's first Google Play global feature (in over 56 countries)
- Azar Reaches 10 Million Cumulative Users (January 2015)