Runtime optimizations and a thorough evaluation process driven by agentic AI help ensure that models written in PyTorch will execute efficiently and reliably on Trainium systems.
Using the Neuron Kernel Interface, a Reactor–AWS collaboration tackled the dynamic shapes, memory access patterns, and cache management that make real-time autoregressive diffusion hard—building techniques that generalize across models.
Three new papers from Amazon Bio Discovery address bottlenecks in AI-driven antibody engineering, from benchmarking binding predictors to experimentally validating de novo design.
New research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don’t have enough space to enable memorization.
How the Verus "program verifier", which automatically checks code against a mathematical specification of its functionality, helps increase security assurance in software projects.
Ten years after we founded the Automated Reasoning Group, mathematical logic has moved from academic research into production services that secure millions of customer workloads — demonstrating that systems can be provably correct, not just probably correct.
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Submissions open October 1 and close on November 4, 2026
The collaboration will support research in robotics, industrial and systems engineering, and aerospace technology while fostering innovation in foundational and emerging technologies.
The Build on Trainium program is a $110 million credit initiative supporting AI research at 30 universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UCLA, CMU, and MIT, with a focus on Responsible AI.
The Antibody Developability Benchmark is powered by one of the most diverse antibody datasets in public literature, enabling transparent performance evaluation for AI-guided antibody design.
Challenge pushes teams to demonstrate measurable gains in secure-coding performance while building AI agents that advance real-world utility and reliability at scale.
Initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.
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NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Small Language Models for Agentic Systems (SLM-Agents)2026Small language models are usually cast as executors inside agentic systems: they call tools, follow procedures, and defer anything hard to a frontier model. We ask whether an 8B model can instead hold the planning role in a production incident-response pipeline, for a domain absent from public pretraining corpora. Our method combines continued pretraining over roughly 100,000 internal domain documents with
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NeurIPS 20262026Many real-world questions demand not a single fact but an organized collection of them, yet existing factual knowledge benchmarks almost exclusively target single-answer retrieval. We introduce LISTQA, a benchmark of 9,045 human-curated, cross-validated questions (audited error rate of 1.7%) that require LLMs to recall multiple facts and compose them into structured lists of 3–10 elements. Questions range
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NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on On-Device Intelligence: Foundation Models under Real-World Constraints (ODI)2026A language model on an edge device runs under tight compute and memory constraints, and its output vocabulary incurs two distinct costs. The embedding matrix can hold up to a third of the weights at sub-billion parameter scale. On top of that, every decoding step has to score the full vocabulary. Restricting inference to K tokens shrinks that layer by up to 256× in memory and 92× in the time it contributes
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EMNLP 2026 Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM)2026Research on coding agents mainly focuses on generation quality. Yet, safety-critical automotive software makes two additional demands. It prioritizes verification, since every change is reviewed, traced to a requirement, and checked against industry standards such as MISRA and AUTOSAR before it can be committed. It is also a narrow domain, written against layered architectures, embedded resource constraints
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NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on the Linguistic Principles for Foundation Models (LP4FM)2026Aggregating several LLM responses to the same question can improve accuracy, but every method that does so must decide where the responses should differ. Established test-time scaling methods such as self-consistency vary only the reasoning path, resampling from a fixed input. The input modification offers several further options: the wording of the question can be rephrased, the spelling can be perturbed
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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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