In Octuber last year, Amazon and Virginia Tech announced Enaugural Class of Fellowship and Faculty Award as part of the Amazon – Virginia Tech Initiative for Effective and Robust Machine Learning. The initiative launched in March 2022 is focused on research on effective and robust machine learning. It supports research efforts led by Virginia Tech … Read more
Amazon announced today that a team from the Nova School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) in Portugal has achieved first place in Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2. Complete complex tasks. Taskbot is the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal customer experiences. During the competition, in addition to verbal instructions, some customers with Echo … Read more
Many recent progress in artificial intelligence is the result of representation learning: A machine learning model learns to take data elements such as vectors in a multidimenal space where geometric relationships between vectors correspond to semantic relationships between objects. The M5 team at Amazon strives to construct general semantic representations of data related to Amazon … Read more
The overall ament of data created, caught, copied and consumed globally every year, accelerates quickly and is expected to reach 120 Zettabyte in 2023, according to Statista. It’s up from nine zettabytes in 2013 (for reference, a zettabyte equals about 500 billion films.) Organizations surround the world hope to take advantage of the opportunity presented … Read more
With one of the big, most miscellaneous, most distributed work forces in the world, Amazon faces a unique HR challenge: how to deliver a work experience that each employee’s needs need. Jessie Handbury, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Amazon visits academically (AVA), helps Amazon’s people, experience and technology central science … Read more
In 2022, we shared our vision of the transformation of plastic through an innovative collaboration with the US Department of Energy’s Bottle Consortium. Today, this vision from the laboratory concept goes to commercial trials. Through work with our partners – from material researchers to recycling facility to Amazon Fresh Stores – we demonstrate the steps … Read more
Remote-Object grounding Is the task of automatically determining where in the local environment to find an object specified in natural language. It is an important capacity for household robots that must be able to perform commands such as “Bring me the pair of glasses on the counter in the children’s bathroom.” In a paper we … Read more
On what is known as a waste day for teams inside Amazon, millions of virtual “customers” log in to the Amazon store to search for items, browse product pages, load shopping carts and check out as if they were real customers in search of good deals under a dirty as Prime Day. “It’s like a … Read more
USC + Amazon Center on secure and trusted machine learning,,,,,,,, Established in January 2021 to support basic research and development of new approaches to Machine Learning (ML) Privacy, Security and Reliability, announced today that it has chosen six research projects for 2023-2024, including oven facial projects and two academic projects by new Amazon ML fellowships. … Read more
The training of a machine learning model can be considered as exploring a landcape that maps settings for the model parameters against the average error rate. The goal of training is to find the bottom of the lowest basin in Landcape or the parameter settings that provide the lowest error rate or “loss” value. A … Read more