A new dataset with over 238,000 images challenges and advances the state of the art in visual defect detection for complex retail applications.
To transform scientific domains, foundation models will require physical-constraint satisfaction, uncertainty quantification, and specialized forecasting techniques that overcome data scarcity while maintaining scientific rigor.
The language AI agents might speak, sharing context without compromising privacy, modeling agentic negotiations, and understanding users’ commonsense policies are some of the open scientific questions that researchers in agentic AI will need to grapple with.
With a novel parallel-computing architecture, a CAD-to-USD pipeline, and the use of OpenUSD as ground truth, a new simulator can explore hundreds of sensor configurations in the time it takes to test just a few physical setups.
From reimagining storage to serverless computing, Aurora continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in database technology.
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Amazon Research Awards have opened their Fall call for proposals, which closes November 5, 2025.
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The company's new state-of-the-art foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
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2025Speech foundation models achieve strong generalization across languages and acoustic conditions, but require significant computational resources for inference. In the context of speech foundation models, pruning techniques have been studied that dynamically optimize model structures based on the target audio leveraging external context. In this work, we extend this line of research and propose context-driven
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2025Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen widespread adoption due to their remarkable natural language capabilities. However, when deploying them in real-world settings, it is important to align LLMs to generate texts according to acceptable human standards. Methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have enabled significant progress in refining LLMs using human
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2025As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly versatile, numerous large scale benchmarks have been developed to thoroughly assess their capabilities. These benchmarks typically consist of diverse datasets and prompts to evaluate different aspects of LLM performance. However, comprehensive evaluations on hundreds or thousands of prompts incur tremendous costs in terms of computation, money, and time
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2025In this paper, we study the problem of estimation and learning under temporal distribution shift. Consider an observation sequence of length n, which is a noisy realization of a time-varying ground-truth sequence. Our focus is to develop methods to estimate the ground-truth at the final time-step while providing sharp point-wise estimation error rates. We show that, without prior knowledge on the level
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2025Can we efficiently choose the best Anomaly Detection (AD) algorithm for a data-stream without requiring anomaly labels? Streaming anomaly detection is hard. SOTA AD algorithms are sensitive to their hyper-parameters and no single method works well on all datasets. The best algorithm/hyper-parameter combination for a given data-stream can change over time with data drift. ‘What is an anomaly?’ is often application
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