The science behind the new FBA capacity management system

The science behind the new FBA capacity management system

It’s September. You are a toy salesman who uses the fulfillment of Amazon (FBA) and most of your sales come just before the holidays. However, you overpowered this summer, breaking down the health of your inventory, resulting in lower remaining capacity when you were near the holiday season. In the meantime, you’ve just launched a … Read more

Alexa reveals new speech recognition, text-to-speech technologies

Alexa reveals new speech recognition, text-to-speech technologies

Today in Arlington, Virginia, at Amazon’s new HQ2, Amazon Senior Vice President Dave Limp hosted an event in which the devices and service organization rolled its new series of products and services. In part of the presentation, Limp, along with Rohit Prasad, was an Amazon Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Artificial General Intelligence, … Read more

A first-of-foot-stroke experience to measure the effect of advertising outside the home

A first-of-foot-stroke experience to measure the effect of advertising outside the home

Amazon promotes its products and services through many advertising channels, and of course we want to know how much bang we get for our buck. We are thus trying to measure the effectiveness of our ads through a combination of data modeling and most importing experimentation. Related content In a Keynote address of the latest … Read more

To ensure that customers do not miss trending products

To ensure that customers do not miss trending products

Obviously, recommendation systems tend to recommend products that have proven to be popular over time – where generally or among customers with certain taste profiles. But popularity -based recommendations can miss Trending Products or product that, although they have yet reached high amounts of purchase, are rapidly increasing in popularity. Customers who make an inquiry … Read more

A quick guide to Amazon’s papers on ICCV 2023

A quick guide to Amazon's papers on ICCV 2023

Amazon’s papers at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision, arranged by topic. 3-D Hal3d: Hierarchical active learning for fine-grained 3D sub-markingFengen Yu, Yiming Qian, Francisca Gil Urata, Brian Jackson, Eric Bennett, Richard Zhang IMGEON: Image induced geometry-noticing voxel representation for 3D vision with multiple viewpointTao You, Shun-Po Chuang, Yu-Lun Liu, Cheng Sun, Ke Zhang, … Read more

Amazon & Virginia Tech Announces Scholarships, Faculty Research Awards

Amazon & Virginia Tech Announces Scholarships, Faculty Research Awards

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

Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2 Winner Advertised

Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2 Winner Advertised

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

New contrastive learning methods for better data presentation

New contrastive learning methods for better data presentation

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

Howon Datazone helps customers find value in Oceans of Data

Howon Datazone helps customers find value in Oceans of Data

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

How Financial Data Informs In More Righteous Employee Experience at Amazon

How Financial Data Informs In More Righteous Employee Experience at Amazon

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