In 2017, IEEE Internet Computing identified a single paper from its publication history that had best withstood the test of time: a 2003 paper called “Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering”
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Top eight university teams move on to head-to-head finals focused on AI security for code generation.
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June 25, 2025With large datasets, directly generating data ID codes from query embeddings is much more efficient than performing pairwise comparisons between queries and candidate responses.
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Top eight university teams move on to head-to-head finals focused on AI security for code generation.
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2025Large Language Models (LLMs) enable natural language to SQL conversion, allowing users to query databases without SQL expertise. However, generating accurate, efficient queries is challenging due to ambiguous intent, domain knowledge requirements, and database constraints. Extensive reasoning improves SQL quality but increases computational costs and latency. We propose SQLGenie, a practical system for
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2025This paper presents an integrated robotic system designed for autonomous picking of targeted objects from cluttered and deformable shelves—a critical task in Amazon warehouse operations for processing customer orders. The system addresses common challenges in robotic picking including diverse object handling, densely packed storage, and dynamic inventories. However, shelf-picking introduces additional complexities
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2025This paper presents a compliant manipulation system capable of placing items onto densely packed shelves. The wide diversity of items and strict business requirements for high producing rates and low defect generation have prohibited warehouse robotics from performing this task. Our innovations in hardware, perception, decision-making, motion planning, and control have enabled this system to perform over
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ICME 20252025In adaptive bitrate streaming, resolution cross-over refers to the point on the convex hull where the encoding resolution should switch to achieve better quality. Accurate cross-over prediction is crucial for streaming providers to optimize resolution at given bandwidths. Most existing works rely on objective Video Quality Metrics (VQM), particularly VMAF, to determine the resolution cross-over. However
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Quantum Science and Technology2025Running quantum algorithms protected by quantum error correction requires a real time, classical decoder. To prevent the accumulation of a backlog, this decoder must process syndromes from the quantum device at a faster rate than they are generated. Most prior work on real time decoding has focused on an isolated logical qubit encoded in the surface code. However, for surface code, quantum programs of utility
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