You are correct - both teams are Canadian and part of Maluuba Research Lab in Montreal. [www.maluuba.com] Here is the difference between the two: The EpiReade

You are correct - both teams are Canadian and part of Maluuba Research Lab in Montreal. [www.maluuba.com] Here is the difference between the two: The EpiReader model uses a two-stage process to arrive at an answer. The first stage extracts a small set of candidate answers from the text passage and the second stage turns these into hypotheses and then tests them through neural inference. [http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02270 http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02270] The Alternating Iterative Attention model goes through a dynamic procedure of focusing on different parts of the question and the document in turn. [http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02245 http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02245] Both models achieve fairly similar accuracy averaged across the two datasets, both beat the existing state of the art results by Google DeepMind, Facebook, and IBM.