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From foundation model safety frameworks and formal verification at cloud scale to advanced robotics and multimodal AI reasoning, these are the most viewed publications from Amazon scientists and collaborators in 2025.
From quantum computing breakthroughs and foundation models for robotics to the evolution of Amazon Aurora and advances in agentic AI, these are the posts that captured readers' attention in 2025.
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January 8, 20264 min readA new hybrid optimization approach allows edge devices to fine-tune vision-language models using only forward passes, achieving up to 7% higher accuracy than existing techniques. -
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KDD 2025 Workshop on AI for Supply Chain2025Time series forecasting is a critical first step in generating demand plans for supply chains. Experiments on time series models typically focus on demonstrating improvements in forecast accuracy over existing/baseline solutions, quantified according to some accuracy metric. There is no doubt that forecast accuracy is important; however in production systems, demand planners often value consistency and
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KDD 2025 Workshop on AI for Supply Chain2025AI and Deep Learning methods have revolutionized many forecasting applications but have not achieved widespread adoption in industry for aggregate forecasting. This paper challenges the AI research community by identifying three critical capabilities that current AI approaches lack: (1) multivariate consistency at scale, (2) explainable and controllable longrun assumptions, and (3) flexible incorporation
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KDD 2025 Workshop on AI for Supply Chain2025This paper proposes using two metrics to quantify the forecastability of time series prior to model development: the spectral predictability score and the largest Lyapunov exponent. Unlike traditional model evaluation metrics, these measures assess the inherent forecastability characteristics of the data before any forecast attempts. The spectral predictability score evaluates the strength and regularity
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KDD 2025 Workshop on AI for Supply Chain2025Multi-horizon and multi-lead time forecasting is a well-established area in machine learning, particularly in demand forecasting, which plays a critical role in a product’s lifecycle. Accurate forecasts support key operational functions, including inventory management, financial planning, promotion planning, and supply chain optimization. Traditional demand forecasting methods typically rely on learning
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KDD 2025 Workshop on AI for Supply Chain2025Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently enabled natural language interfaces that translate user queries into executable SQL, offering a powerful solution for non-technical stakeholders to access structured data. However, one of the limitation that LLMs do not natively express uncertainty makes it difficult to assess the reliability of their generated queries. This paper presents a case study that evaluates
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