Combining elastic weight consolidation and data mixing yields better trade-offs between performance on old and new tasks.Read More
Amazon’s 23 papers at EMNLP
Natural-language understanding and question answering are areas of focus, with additional topics ranging from self-learning to text summarization.Read More
EMNLP: Mitigating bias and “getting closer to the user”
Amazon’s Georgiana Dinu on current challenges in machine translation.Read More
Foiling AI hackers with counterfactual reasoning
Amazon Research Award recipient Yezhou Yang is studying how to make autonomous systems more robust.Read More
AWS team wins best-paper award for work on automated reasoning
SOSP paper describes lightweight formal methods for validating new S3 data storage service.Read More
Amazon SCOT employees participate in innovation and diversity panel discussion
Watch the replay of the October 28 discussion featuring four Amazon leaders.Read More
How a team of engineers helped bring Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K to life
A behind-the-scenes look at the unique challenges the engineering teams faced, and how they used scientific research to drive fundamental innovation to overcome those challenges.Read More
Amazon and UCLA establish Science Hub for Humanity and AI
The collaboration, Amazon’s first of this type with a public university, will support academic research, education, and outreach efforts in areas of mutual interest around artificial intelligence and its applications to benefit humanity.Read More
Michael Wagner and co-author receive INFORMS award
Wagner, an associate professor at the University of Washington and an Amazon Scholar, wins the Urban Transportation Outstanding Paper Award.Read More
Amazon’s annual machine learning conference featured presentations from thought leaders within academia
Amazon Machine Learning Conference highlights use of machine learning across the company’s businesses and its increasing value to customers.Read More