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NeurIPS 2020
December 6 - 12, 2020
Vancouver, Canada

Overview

Amazon is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of NeurIPS 2020, which is a virtual-only conference this year.

About NeurIPS: The Neural Information Processing Systems annual meeting fosters the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. The core focus is peer-reviewed novel research which is presented and discussed in the general session, along with invited talks by leaders in their fields.

Learn more on the official conference website.

Amazon program committee and board members

Accepted publications

Workshops & Tutorials

Orals & Spotlights

Oral: Escaping the Gravitational Pull of Softmax
Spotlight: CoinDICE: Off-Policy Confidence Interval Estimation
Spotlight: BOSS: Bayesian Optimization over String Spaces

NeurIPS 2020 Expo

Expo Talk Panel: Fairness, Explainability, and Privacy in AI/ML Systems | December 6 at 10 a.m. PT
Expo Talk Panel: Challenges in the Adoption of Machine Learning in Health Care | December 6 at 11 a.m. PT
Expo Demonstration: Medical Transcription Analysis | December 6 at 4 p.m. PT

Workshops

Advances and Opportunities: Machine Learning for Education Workshop
Speaker: Candace Marie Thille

Black in AI Workshop (Amazon sponsored)

Causal Discovery & Causality-Inspired Machine Learning
Invited speaker: Dominik Janzing

Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop
Accepted paper: FactoredRL: Leveraging factored graphs for deep reinforcement learning

Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems Workshop
Invited speaker: Gokhan Tur
Organizing committee members: Behnam Hedayatnia | Shereen Oraby | Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Program committee members: Seokhwan Kiim | Alessandra Cervone | Gagan Aneja | Yang Liu | Karthik Gopalakrishnan
Accepted Papers: Efficient evaluation of task oriented dialogue systems | Dialog simulation with realistic variations for training goal-oriented conversational systems | Large-scale hybrid approach for predicting user satisfaction with conversational agents | Interactive teaching for conversational AI

Interpretable Inductive Biases and Physically Structured Learning Workshop
Accepted Paper: Learning dynamical systems requires rethinking generalization

Indigenous in AI Workshop
Founder & Organizer: Michael Running Wolf

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Meets Machine Learning Workshop (Amazon sponsored)
Invited speaker: Heng Ji, Amazon Scholar
Organizing committee member: Chenwei Zhang
Accepted Papers: LRTA: A transparent neural-symbolic reasoning framework with modular supervision for visual question answering | Towards good practices in self-supervised representation learning

LatinX in AI Workshop (Amazon sponsored)

Machine Learning for Molecules Workshop
Accepted paper: Improving generalizability of protein sequence models with data augmentations

Machine Learning for Systems Workshop
Accepted paper: FirePlace: Placing FireCracker virtual machines with hindsight imitation

Machine Learning in Public Health Workshop
Accepted Paper: AutoODE: Bridging physics-based and data-driven modeling for COVID-19 forecasting - *Best Paper Award winner

Meta-Learning Workshop
Speakers: Aditya Rawal | Aaron Klein | Cedric Archambeau | Matthias Seeger
Accepted papers: Bayesian optimization by density ratio estimation |Multi-objective multi-fidelity hyperparameter optimization with application to fairness | Pareto-efficient acquisition functions for cost-aware Bayesian optimization

Offline Reinforcement Learning Workshop
Organizing committee member: Lihong Li
Accepted Paper: Offline policy evaluation with new arms

Optimization for Machine Learning Workshop
Accepted Paper: Local AdaAlter: Communication-efficient stochastic gradient descent with adaptive learning rates

Preregistration 2020 Workshop
Accepted paper: Keypoints-aware object detection

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning - PRIML and PPML joint edition workshop
Accepted paper: Privacy-preserving XGBoost inference

Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning Workshop
Accepted Paper: PAC identifiability in federated personalization

Self-Supervised Learning Workshop
Accepted Paper: Towards good practices in self-supervised representation learning

Self-Supervised Learning for Speech and Audio Processing Workshop
Invited speaker: Katrin Kirchhoff
Organizing committee member: Shang-Wen Li
Program committee members: Annie Dong | Yuzong Liu
Accepted Paper: Towards semi-supervised semantics understanding from speech

The preregistration workshop
Accepted Paper: Keypoints-aware object detection

Women in Machine Learning Workshop (Amazon sponsored)

Video: Amazon panel members discuss fairness in AI
Virtual event: Amazon scientists discuss fairness in AI
Staff writer
November 25, 2020
Five Amazon scientists gathered for a 45-minute virtual event to discuss the subject of fairness in AI during the week of NeurIPS 2020.
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US, NY, New York
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Applied Scientist, AI Research & Education
US, CA, Santa Clara
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US, NY, New York
Job summaryAmazon Web Services is looking for world class scientists to join the Security Analytics and AI Research team within AWS Security Services. This group is entrusted with researching and developing core data mining and machine learning algorithms for various AWS security services like GuardDuty (https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/) and Macie (https://aws.amazon.com/macie/). In this group, you will invent and implement innovative solutions for never-before-solved problems. If you have passion for security and experience with large scale machine learning problems, this will be an exciting opportunity.The AWS Security Services team builds technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud. The team interacts with security researchers to codify our own learnings and best practices and make them available for customers. We are building massively scalable and globally distributed security systems to power next generation services.Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life Balance Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. Mentorship & Career Growth Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.A day in the lifeAbout the hiring groupJob responsibilities* Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment.* Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experiments into large scale, highly complex production services.* Report results in a scientifically rigorous way.* Interact with security engineers, product managers and related domain experts to dive deep into the types of challenges that we need innovative solutions for.
Senior Economist, Digital Advertising
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryWe are seeking a talented Economist to join our team and help us build innovative systems at the intersection of machine learning and quantitative marketing. We develop new measurement and optimization tools that enable Amazon to make smart marketing investment decisions. This role will impact billions of dollars of decision-making by Amazon’s most strategic businesses. Our most effective tools are released to external advertisers too, defining new industry standards. What makes us unique is our comprehensive data, our world-class engineering systems and a high concentration of some of the most talented scientists and engineers in industry. As a successful candidate, you will be passionate about building scalable systems. You'll be comfortable with ambiguity and have exceptional technical acumen. You'll be up to speed on the latest research, and capable of developing new techniques at the intersection of causal inference, reinforcement learning and quantitative marketing. You will lead other scientists by example, with crisp technical writing and frequent presentations.Key job responsibilitiesBuild end-to-end causal machine learning solutions.Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with enormous data sets to better understand how advertising influences shopper behavior.Run A/B experiments that affect millions of customers to evaluate the impact of your solutions.Spearhead new research agendas and own delivering on commitments.Work closely with engineering to design systems that facilitate high velocity science exploration and quick prototype-to-prod timelines.Develop novel methods at the intersection of causal inference, machine learning and quantitative marketing.Present original research at internal and external conferences.About the teamOur team is a dynamic mix of scientists who are passionate about innovating. We are excited to evaluate our novel causal models and optimization algorithms against ground truth generated by large-scale experiments. We think big, take risks and stay grounded.
Applied Scientist
IN, KA, Bangalore
Job summaryDo you want to be part of a new team at Amazon that is making history? Do you want to build technology and new science that millions of people will use? Are you excited about working on large scale Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL)?We are embarking on a multi-year journey to improve the shopping experience for customers globally. Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies that makes shopping delightful and effortless for our customers. Our goal is to understand what customers are looking for in whatever language happens to be their choice at the moment and help them find what they need in Amazon's vast catalog of billions of products. As Amazon expands to new geographies, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Quality due to the diversity in user preferences, multilingual search and data scarcity in new locales.We are looking for an applied researcher to work on improving search on Amazon using NLP, ML, and DL technology. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead our efforts in query understanding, semantic matching (e.g. is a drone the same as quadcopter?), relevance ranking (what is a "funny halloween costume"?), language identification (did the customer just switch to their mother tongue?), machine translation (猫の餌を注文する). This is a highly visible role with a huge impact on Amazon customers and business. As part of this role, you will develop high precision, high recall, and low latency solutions for search. Your solutions should work for all languages that Amazon supports and will be used in all Amazon locales world-wide. You will develop scalable science and engineering solutions that work successfully in production. You will work with leaders to develop a strategic vision and long term plans to improve search globally. We are growing our collaborative group of engineers and applied scientists by expanding into new areas. This is a position on Global Search Quality team in Bangalore (India). We are moving fast to change the way Amazon search works. Together with a multi-disciplinary team you will work on building solutions with NLP/ML/DL at its core. Along the way, you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. Come and join us as we invent new ways to delight Amazon customers.Do not hesitate to reach out if you have some of the following: ability to apply state of the art in large scale Machine Learning (e.g. semi-weakly-un-supervised deep learning, natural language understanding), curiosity to learn through controlled experimentation or experience with low latency production systems. Apply now or ping Shailendra Agarwal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailendra-agarwal-893a3b11/) to learn more about the different ways you can have huge impact with us.We are an inclusive employer and value diversity at Amazon. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Applied Scientist II, Amazon Machine Learning Solution Lab
US, VA, Virtual Location - Virginia
Job summaryJob summaryMachine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.The Amazon ML Solutions Lab team helps AWS customers accelerate the use of machine learning to solve business and operational challenges and promote innovation in their organization. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help develop solutions by pushing the envelope in Time Series, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision (CV) and More.As a ML Solutions Lab Applied Scientist, you are proficient in designing and developing advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data and develop novel models to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. You will apply classical ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning approaches to areas such as drug discovery, customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analytics, player pose estimation, event detection, and virtual assistant among others.Key job responsibilitiesThe primary responsibilities of this role are to:Design, develop, and evaluate innovative ML/DL models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities across industriesInteract with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve themWork closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new algorithmsThis position requires travel of up to 25%. Role can be preferably based in DC, Maryland, Virginia / New York, New Jersey area; However candidates in Boston or Atlanta area are encouraged to apply.
Economist , ER Research and Development Team
FR
Job summaryThe ER Solutions team uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which solve for defects in the Employee Experience. We are an interdisciplinary team which combines the talents of science, psychology and industry specialists to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal. We are looking for an Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, PXT, ER, operations and tech teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. Ideal candidates will work closely with business partners to develop science that solves the most important business challenges. They will need to work well in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Serve as an ambassador for science and a scientific resource for business teams, so that scientific processes permeate throughout the PXT organization to the benefit of Amazonians and Amazon. Ideal candidates will own the development of scientific models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating model. They will be customer-centric – clearly communicating scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions.
Manager, Data Science, Alexa Shopping ASR
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryLooking for a challenging and fun role in a new and growing part of Amazon? At Alexa Shopping, we strive to enable shopping in everyday life. We make it easy for customers to shop by interacting with Alexa on Amazon devices such as Show, Dot, Fire TV or on Amazon Shopping app on mobile or on any 3rd party device with an Alexa endpoint. Our Services allow you to shop, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you can go from 'I want that' to 'that's on the way' in a matter of seconds. We are seeking the industry's best to help us create new ways to interact, search and shop. Join us, and you'll be taking part in changing the future of everyday life. 

What you will do: You will lead a team of talented and experienced scientists and engineers that implement solutions to improve automated speech recognition (ASR) for Alexa Shopping customers. 
You will build a world class team, demonstrate thought-leadership and guide the team to make the right scientific or technical trade-offs to meet long term/short-term business needs. You will lead research and drive greenfield invention leading a team of data scientists and software engineers. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. 
You will own: 
(1) Creating a road map of the most challenging business questions from product owners, program managers and senior leadership, and use data to find solutions.
(2) Partnering with scientists across Shopping and Alexa to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Shopping ASR. 
(3) Working with stakeholders and internal customer teams to solve business and technology problems to delight both internal stakeholder teams and Alexa end customers. 
(4) Creating systems and data pipelines to deliver solutions at Amazon scale.And finally, you will have the satisfaction of being able to look back and say you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages. You will be working closely with executive leadership, multiple product managers and leaders from partner teams in Amazon Retail, Alexa, and Speech Recognition teams. 

What we are looking for: We are looking for a talented Data Science Manager with a strong technical background and solid people management skills to build, manage and develop a highly-talented and experienced data science team. We are seeking leaders that can guide technical and product innovation in the areas of voice experiences, machine learning models and the distributed systems to bring our vision together. Strong judgment and communication skills, long term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for the success in this role.Key job responsibilitiesYou will own: 
(1) Creating a road map of the most challenging business questions from product owners, program managers and senior leadership, and use data to find solutions.
(2) Partnering with scientists across Shopping and Alexa to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Shopping ASR. 
(3) Working with stakeholders and internal customer teams to solve business and technology problems to delight both internal stakeholder teams and Alexa end customers. 
(4) Creating systems and data pipelines to deliver solutions at Amazon scale.(5) Growing and developing the careers of scientists and SDEs in the team.A day in the lifeYou'll review KPIs for the business and the team and look for ways each day to improve them or to create new metrics and insights. Partner with Alexa ASR, Retail Search and Shopping CX owners to align goals, tech strategy and roadmaps. Guide your team to build new data science solutions, ML models and data pipelines.About the teamThe Shopping ASR team is a mix of data scientists and SDEs that own the charter of improving speech accuracy for all shopping customers across devices (Amazon App, Echo, Show) and experiences such as Purchasing, Your Account, Shopping Lists and Product Q&A. We work closely with Alexa ASR, Shopping NLU and Automated Metrics as well as teams in retail such as M5.
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