New technologies are helping vulnerable communities produce maps that integrate topographical, infrastructural, seasonal, and real-time data — an essential tool for many humanitarian endeavors.
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.
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.
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October 16, 2025Amazon vice president and distinguished engineer Marc Brooker explains how agentic systems work under the hood — and how AWS’s new AgentCore framework implements their core components.
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Amazon Research Awards have opened their Fall call for proposals, which closes November 5, 2025.
University teams battle to harden and hack AI coding assistants in head-to-head tournament
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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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2025In Amazon robotic warehouses, the destination-to-chute mapping problem is crucial for efficient package sorting. Often, however, this problem is complicated by uncertain and dynamic package induction rates, which can lead to increased package recirculation. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a Distributionally Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (DRMARL) framework that learns a destination-to-chute
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2025How to best develop foundational models for time series forecasting remains an important open question. Tokenization is a crucial consideration in this effort: what is an effective discrete vocabulary for a real-valued sequential input? To address this question, we develop WaveToken, a wavelet-based tokenizer that allows models to learn complex representations directly in the space of time localized frequencies
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2025Recent years have witnessed a surge in the development of protein structural tokenization methods, which chunk protein 3D structures into discrete or continuous representations. Structure tokenization enables the direct application of powerful techniques like language modeling for protein structures, and large multimodal models to integrate structures with protein sequences and functional texts. Despite
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