Language models inspired by specialized processing regions in the brain offer significant time and cost savings.
An ensemble of models, weighted according to their reluctance to flag anomalies, outperforms its predecessors.
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.
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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July 22, 2025Generating diverse synthetic prior distributions leads to a tabular foundation model that outperforms task-specific baselines.
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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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The company's new state-of-the-art foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
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2025This work presents advancements in audio pretraining objectives designed to generate semantically rich embeddings, capable of addressing a wide range of audio-related tasks. Despite significant progress in the field, current methods often emphasize full fine-tuning in downstream applications, which can obscure the true potential of pretrained audio encoders. In this study, we present an audio encoder that
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2025Existing automatic prompt engineering methods are typically designed for discriminative tasks, where new task prompts are iteratively refined with limited feedback from a single metric reflecting a single aspect. However, these approaches are suboptimal for generative tasks, which require more nuanced guidance beyond a single numeric metric to improve the prompt and optimize multiple aspects of the generated
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Knowledge distillation is used, in generative language modeling, to train a smaller student model using the help of a larger teacher model, resulting in improved capabilities for the student model. In this paper, we formulate a more general framework for knowledge distillation where the student learns from the teacher during training, and also learns to ask for the teacher’s help at test-time following
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2025In e-commerce, customers often struggle to find relevant items when their needs involve subjective properties characterized by personal or collective perception, tastes, and opinions, which are typically not captured in catalog data. This challenge is particularly pronounced in event-based scenarios like gifting, where selecting the right product involves complex subjective reasoning. Customer reviews can
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2025Events like Valentine’s Day and Christmas can influence user intent when interacting with search engines. For example, a user searching for gift around Valentine’s Day is likely to be looking for Valentine’s-themed options, whereas the same query close to Christmas would more likely suggest an interest in Holiday-themed gifts. These shifts in user intent, driven by temporal factors, are often implicit but
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