Customer-obsessed science
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View allThe latest research conducted by Amazon scientists.
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October 04, 2021Publicly released TEACh dataset contains more than 3,000 dialogues and associated visual data from a simulated environment.
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September 29, 2021Measuring the displacement between location estimates derived from different camera views can help enforce the local consistency vital to navigation.
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September 28, 2021“Body language” and an awareness of social norms help Amazon’s new household robot integrate gracefully into the home.
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October 11 - 17, 2021
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October 24 - 27, 2021
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November 7 - 11, 2021
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News and features
View allGet the latest news about scientific innovation at Amazon.
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October 05, 2021The Oxford professor says merging AI, ML, and climate science can help us understand the impact of aerosol-cloud interactions on climate.
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October 04, 2021University team application deadline is October 31, 2021.
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October 04, 2021The collaboration will support research, education, and outreach efforts in areas of mutual interest, beginning with artificial intelligence and robotics.
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October 01, 2021How Amazon’s scientists developed a first-of-its-kind multi-echelon system for inventory buying and placement.
Recent publications
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2021We revisit existing ensemble diversification approaches and present two novel diversification methods tailored for open-set scenarios. The first method uses a new loss, designed to encourage models disagreement on outliers only, thus alleviating the intrinsic accuracy-diversity trade-off. The second method achieves diversity via automated feature engineering, by training each model to disregard input features
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ICMC 20212021Traditionally, the most data-heavy part of a (D)TLS handshake has been authentication which includes a handshake signature and digital certificates. Although most common (D)TLS use cases are not significantly affected by big certificates or certificate chains, some constrained usecases such as low bandwidth environments or delay sensitive applications can see drastic performance degradation. That has led
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2021Computer vision applications such as visual relationship detection and human object interaction can be formulated as a composite (structured) set detection problem in which both the parts (subject, object, and predicate) and the sum (triplet as a whole) are to be detected in a hierarchical fashion. In this paper, we present a new approach, denoted Part-and-Sum detection Transformer (PST), to perform end-to-end
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EMNLP 2021 Third Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI2021Natural Language Generation (NLG) for task oriented dialogue systems focuses on communicating specific content accurately, fluently, and coherently. While these attributes are crucial for a successful dialogue, it is also desirable to simultaneously accomplish specific stylistic goals, such as response length, point-of-view, descriptiveness, sentiment, formality, and empathy. In this work, we focus on stylistic
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2021A large-scale conversational agent can suffer from understanding user utterances with various ambiguities such as ASR ambiguity, intent ambiguity, and hypothesis ambiguity. When ambiguities are detected, the agent should engage in a clarifying dialog to resolve the ambiguities before committing to actions. However, asking clarifying questions for all the ambiguity occurrences could lead to asking too many
Collaborations
View allAmazon engages with the science community in a number of ways.
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July 28, 2021ARA seeks proposals in areas including Amazon Payments, Prime Video, and robotics.
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September 07, 2021The 26 awardees represent 25 universities in 11 countries. Recipients have access to more than 250 Amazon public datasets, and can utilize AWS AI/ML services and tools.
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August 16, 2021Czech Technical University team awarded $500,000 prize for top score in finals competition; teams from Stanford University and the University of Buffalo place second and third.
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August 10, 2021The fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science, and related fields.
Working at Amazon
View allMeet the people driving the innovation essential to being the world’s most customer-centric company.
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September 14, 2021Oritseweyinmi Henry Ajagbawa utilized causal inference to help examine the interaction between changes in marketing content and Amazon customer behavior.
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September 13, 2021How Amazon intern Michael Saxon uses his experience with automatic speech recognition models to help Alexa answer complex queries.
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August 24, 2021Amazon's machine learning leader for startups is also working to include more underrepresented groups in the workforce.
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August 19, 2021How Minghui He turned her Amazon internship into a full-time research scientist role.

