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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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NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Table Representation Learning2024Machine learning (ML) models trained using Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) often exhibit systematic errors on specific subpopulations of tabular data, known as error slices. Learning robust representation in the presence of error slices is challenging, especially in self-supervised settings during the feature reconstruction phase, due to high cardinality features and the complexity of constructing error
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NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Open-World Agents2024Task-oriented dialogue systems are essential for applications ranging from customer service to personal assistants and are widely used across various industries. However, developing effective multi-domain systems remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of handling diverse user intents, entity types, and domain-specific knowledge across several domains. In this work, we propose DARD (Domain
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2024In this paper, we introduce AdaSelection, an adaptive sub-sampling method to identify the most informative sub-samples within each minibatch to speed up the training of large-scale deep learning models without sacrificing model performance. Our method is able to flexibly combines an arbitrary number of baseline sub-sampling methods incorporating the method-level importance and intra-method sample-level
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2024The rise of large language models (LLMs) has significantly influenced the quality of information in decision-making systems, leading to the prevalence of AI-generated content and challenges in detecting misinformation and managing conflicting information, or "inter-evidence conflicts." This study introduces a method for generating diverse, validated evidence conflicts to simulate real-world misinformation
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EMNLP 2024 Workshop on Customizable NLP2024In-Context Learning (ICL) has enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to excel as generalpurpose models in zero and few-shot task settings. However, since LLMs are often not trained on the downstream tasks, they lack crucial contextual knowledge from the data distributions, which limits their task adaptability. This paper explores using data priors to automatically customize prompts in ICL. We extract these
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