AWS DeepComposer is now available for preview. Learn more about the science behind the musical keyboard designed to expand your machine learning skills.Read More
Amazon EBS addresses the challenge of the CAP Theorem at scale
Optimizing placement of configuration data ensures that it’s available and consistent during “network partitions”.Read More
Building a Backtesting Service to Measure Model Performance at Uber-scale
With operations in over 700 cities worldwide and gross bookings of over $16 billion in Q3 2019 alone, Uber leverages forecast models to ensure accurate financial planning and budget management. These models, derived from data science practices and platformed for …
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Cryptographic computing can accelerate the adoption of cloud computing
Amazon Scholar Joan Feigenbaum talks about two cryptographic techniques that are being used to address cloud-computing privacy concerns and accelerate enterprise cloud adoption.Read More
A new model and dataset for long-range memory
This blog introduces a new long-range memory model, the Compressive Transformer, alongside a new benchmark for book-level language modelling, PG19. We provide the conceptual tools needed to understand this new research in the context of recent developments in memory models and language modelling.Read More
Amazon brings new machine learning, conversational-AI methods to AAAI
Papers investigate dialogue, question-answering, self-learning, and more.Read More
Amazon re:MARS 2020 update
We have been closely monitoring the situation with COVID-19, and after much consideration, we have made the decision to cancel re:MARS 2020.Read More
3 ways reinforcement learning is changing the world around you
Sahika Genc, Amazon principal applied scientist, writes about three important ways reinforcement learning is used in the real world, and explains how you can get hands on with it.Read More
How Alexa Shopping balances long-term research with short-term goals
Liane Lewin-Eytan, senior manager of applied research within the Alexa Shopping organization, talks about the mechanisms that enable scientists in Alexa Shopping to maintain a balance between “moonshot” goals and “rooftop” deliverables.Read More
On benchmark data set, question-answering system halves error rate
Improvements come from new transfer learning method, new publicly released data set.Read More