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.
Translating from natural to structured language, defining truth, and definitive reasoning remain topics of central concern in automated reasoning, but Amazon Web Services’ new Automated Reasoning checks help address all of them.
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.
A new dataset with over 238,000 images challenges and advances the state of the art in visual defect detection for complex retail applications.
From reimagining storage to serverless computing, Aurora continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in database technology.
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September 2, 2025Audible's ML algorithms connect users directly to relevant titles, reducing the number of purchase steps for millions of daily users. -
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Led by David Luan and Pieter Abbeel, the lab will focus on developing new foundational capabilities for enabling useful AI agents.
The company's new state-of-the-art foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
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2024We present Event-focused Search, an automated and scalable pipeline designed to facilitate event discovery and enhance event-based search. This is done by leveraging large language models (LLMs) to populate event datasets, perform temporal search based on selected dates, and aggregate search results based on appropriate events based on those searches. We illustrate this pipeline through proof-of-concept
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2024NeurAlly-Decomposed Oracle (NADO) is a powerful approach for controllable generation with large language models. It is designed to avoid catastrophic forgetting while achieving guaranteed convergence to an entropy-maximized closed-form optimal solution with reasonable modeling capacity. Despite the success, several challenges arise when apply NADO to a wide range of scenarios. Vanilla NADO suffers from
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Affordance grounding refers to the task of finding the area of an object with which one can interact. It is a fundamental but challenging task, as a successful solution requires the comprehensive understanding of a scene in multiple aspects including detection, localization, and recognition of objects with their parts, of geospatial configuration/layout of the scene, of 3D shapes and physics, as well as
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Large Language Models (LLMs) can be leveraged to improve performance in various stages of the search pipeline – the indexing stage, the query understanding stage, and the ranking or re-ranking stage. The latter two stages involve invoking a LLM during inference, adding latency in fetching the final ranked list of documents. Index enhancement, on the other hand, can be done in the indexing stage, in near
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In a typical e-commerce setting, Content Ranking Optimization (CRO) mechanisms are employed to surface content on the search page to fulfill customers’ shopping missions. CRO commonly utilizes models such as contextual deep bandits model to independently rank content at different positions, e.g., one optimizer dedicated to organic search results and another to sponsored results. However, this regional optimization
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