Watch a recording of the presentation and Q&A roundtable featuring Amazon scientists and scholars.Read More
Amazon launches new Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
University teams will compete in building agents that can help customers complete complex tasks, like cooking and home improvement. Deadline for university team applications is April 16.Read More
Working toward fairer machine learning
Exploring and analyzing possible techniques to make ML algorithms capable of learning fairer models by utilizing empirical risk minimization theory.Read More
Fostering a culture of innovation
An Amazon principal scientist describes how an internal challenge has fostered greater collaboration and a sense of community among the company’s scientists.Read More
Teaching neural networks to compress images
The combination of a new loss metric and a module that identifies high-importance image regions improves compression.Read More
Amazon at WSDM: How the scale of the web makes old problems new
Amazon scientists and conference general chairs Liane Lewin-Eytan and David Carmel on the transformations wrought when data goes online.Read More
How to forge a more gender-equal science community
International Women’s Day is March 8 with the theme: #ChooseToChallenge.Read More
Two Amazon papers were runners-up for best-paper awards at AAAI
Research investigates how to construct recommendation algorithms when the search space is massive and how to perform natural-language searches on the COVID-19 literature.Read More
Dive into Deep Learning adds attention mechanism chapter
The newest chapter addresses a problem that often bedevils nonparametric machine learning models.Read More
Making an art collection browsable by voice
The Art Museum skill uses Alexa Conversations, an AI-driven dialogue management tool.Read More