Unique end-of-arm tools with three-dimensional force sensors and innovative control algorithms enable robotic arms to “pick” items from and “stow” items in fabric storage pods.
We present Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation.
In experiments involving real quantum devices and algorithms, automated-reasoning-based method for mapping quantum computations onto quantum circuits is 26 times as fast as predecessors.
A new multimodal foundation model that unifies speech and text processing in a single architecture, delivering frontier voice intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
Novel training procedure and decoding mechanism enable model to outperform much larger foundation model prompted to perform the same task.
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Inaugural global university competition focused on advancing secure, trusted AI-assisted software development.
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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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ACL 20252025Accurate mapping of queries to product categories is crucial for efficient retrieval and ranking of relevant products in e-commerce search. Conventionally, such query classification models rely on supervised learning using historical user interactions, but their effectiveness diminishes in cold-start scenarios, where new categories or products lack sufficient training data. This results in poor query-to-category
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ACL 20252025Large 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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A global university competition to drive secure innovation in generative AI technology, which focuses on responsible AI and large language model coding security.
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We partner with particular academic organizations across the world for deep and sustained collaborations in multiple research areas of mutual interest.
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We hire world-class academics to work on large-scale technical challenges, while they continue to teach and conduct research at their universities.
