Customer-obsessed science
"We invent around a simple premise: the real world matters to customers"
That's how Dave Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services, wrapped up the 2022 Devices and Services event. Learn more about the science behind some of today's biggest announcements, including the Halo Rise and Alexa’s new interactive story-creation experience.
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September 28, 2022Built-in radar technology, deep domain adaptation for sleep stage classification, and low-latency incremental sleep tracking enable Halo Rise to deliver a seamless, no-contact way to help customers improve sleep. -
September 28, 2022AI models that generate stories, place objects in a visual scene, and assemble music on the fly customize content to children’s specifications. -
September 28, 2022Combining psychoacoustics, signal processing, and speaker beamforming enhances stereo audio and delivers an immersive sound experience for customers.
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From Alexa to Astro, Kindle, and more, About Amazon covered all of the updates and announcements from the annual Devices and Services Event.
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September 27, 2022Highlighted papers focus on transference — of prosody, accent, and speaker identity.
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September 26, 2022Contiguous parameter management and prefetched activation offloading expand the MiCS tool kit.
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September 26, 2022Two-day hackathon will provide a hands-on approach to building speech-technology applications for underrepresented languages; registration deadline is Sept. 30.
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October 12 - 17, 2022
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October 16 - 19, 2022
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October 17 - 21, 2022
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September 29, 2022Majumdar’s 2003 paper established an elegant algorithm that influences current work on timed games.
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September 21, 2022Scientists’ paper on probabilistic symbolic execution has significantly influenced software testing and analysis.
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September 19, 2022Why detecting damage is so tricky at Amazon’s scale — and how researchers are training robots to help with that gargantuan task.
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September 07, 2022Preliminary tests show a prototype pinch-grasping robot achieved a 10-fold reduction in damage on items such as books and boxes.
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AI-ML Systems 20222022Product images are the most impressing medium of customer interaction on the product detail pages of e-commerce websites. Millions of products are onboarded on to webstore catalogues daily and maintaining a high quality bar for a product’s set of images is a problem at scale. Grouping products by categories, clothing is a very high volume and high velocity category and thus deserves its own attention. Given
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AI-ML Systems 20222022We showcase a novel solution to a recommendation system problem where we face a perpetual soft item cold start issue. Our system aims to recommend demanded products to prospective sellers for listing in Amazon stores. These products always have only few interactions thereby giving rise to a perpetual soft item cold start situation. Modern collaborative filtering methods solve cold start using content attributes
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2022Large pretrained language models offer powerful generation capabilities, but cannot be reliably controlled at a sub-sentential level. We propose to make such fine-grained control possible in pretrained LMs by generating text directly from a semantic representation, Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), which is augmented at the node level with syntactic control tags. We experiment with English-language
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Recsys 2022 Workshop on Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling2022Amazon encompasses a large number of discrete businesses such as Retail, Advertising, Fresh, Business (B2B e-commerce), and Prime Video, most of which maintain a presence across its e-commerce website. They produce content for our customers that belong to diverse content types such as merchandising (e.g. product recommendations), product advertisements (e.g. sponsored products and display ads), program
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ICMC 20222022Public key cryptography is used to asymmetrically establish keys, authenticate or encrypt data between communicating parties at a relatively high performance cost. To reduce computational overhead, modern network protocols combine asymmetric primitives for key establishment and authentication with symmetric ones. Similarly, Hybrid Public Key Encryption, a relatively new scheme, uses public key cryptography
Collaborations
Amazon engages with the science community in a number of ways.
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September 22, 2022University teams are invited to compete to build multimodal conversational agents that assist customers in completing tasks requiring multiple steps.
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September 16, 2022Submission period opens September 16 and closes on October 19.
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Courtesy of Harvard UniversitySeptember 12, 2022Collaboration will seek to advance the development of a quantum internet.
Working at Amazon
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August 29, 2022After 15 years in academia, Alp Muharremoglu became a senior principal scientist within Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies organization, and says his teaching skills are indispensable.
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August 26, 2022Principal data scientist Elena Ehrlich uses her skills to help a wide variety of customers — including the National Football League.
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August 23, 2022New speech representations and self-supervised learning are two of the recent trends that most intrigue him.
