Dive into Deep Learning (D2L.ai) is an open-source textbook that makes deep learning accessible to everyone. It features interactive Jupyter notebooks with self-contained code in PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, and MXNet, as well as real-world examples, exposition figures, and math. So far, D2L has been adopted by more than 400 universities around the world, such as the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tsinghua University. This work is also made available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, and Vietnamese, with plans to launch Spanish and other languages.
It is a challenging endeavor to have an online book that is continuously kept up to date, written by multiple authors, and available in multiple languages. In this post, we present a solution that D2L.ai used to address this challenge by using the Active Custom Translation (ACT) feature of Amazon Translate and building a multilingual automatic