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Apr 26, 2024 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA received many excellent research proposals from across the world and today is publicly announcing 99 award recipients who represent 51 universities in 15 countries.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty
The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities. The AVA program is aimed at pre-tenure to newly-tenured academics who seek to apply research methods to tackle complex technical challenges while continuing their university work.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
amazon.science | Pei Chen |Boran Han |Shuai Zhang |Larry Hardesty
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great ability in solving traditional natural language tasks and elementary reasoning tasks with appropriate prompting techniques. How- ever, their ability is still limited in solving complicated science problems. In this work, we aim to push the upper bound of the reason- ing capability of LLMs by proposing a collaborative multi-agent, multi-reasoning-path (CoMM) prompting framework.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty |Sean O'Neill |Tamer H.M. Soliman
In August 2024, at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and an Amazon Scholar, will receive the John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty
Secure multiparty computation (MPC) is a computing paradigm in which multiple parties compute an aggregate function — say, their average salary — without revealing any private information — say, their individual salaries — to each other. It’s found applications in auction design, cryptography, data analytics, digital-wallet security, and blockchain computation, among other things.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty |Changyou Chen |Raffay Hamid
Last month, at its annual re:Invent developers’ conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the release of two new additions to its Titan family of foundation models, both of which translate between text and images. With Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings, now available through Amazon Bedrock, customers can upload their own sets of images and then search them using text, related images, or both.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty
The current excitement around large language models is just the latest aftershock of the deep-learning revolution that started in 2012 (or maybe 2010), but Columbia professor and Amazon Scholar Richard Zemel was there before the beginning. As a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Zemel wrote his dissertation on representation learning in unsupervised machine learning systems for Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three “godfathers of deep learning”.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
amazon.science | Sean O'Neill |Alessandro Achille |Larry Hardesty
It was on a “hunting trip” to Italy in 2015 that computer vision pioneer Stefano Soatto first came across Alessandro Achille. More accurately, it was a mind-hunting trip, to the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. The university was founded by Napoleon, and its alumni include Nobel-Prize-winning physicists Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia and Field-Medal-winning mathematician Alessio Figalli.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty
As the start of this year’s Interspeech draws near, “generative AI” has become a watchword in both the machine learning community and the popular press, where it generally refers to models that synthesize text or images. Text-to-speech (TTS) models, which are a major area of research at Interspeech, have, in some sense, always been “generative”. But as Jasha Droppo, a senior principal scientist in the Alexa AI organization, explains, TTS, too, has been reshaped by the new generative-AI paradigm.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
amazon.science | Larry Hardesty |Yi Xie
In 2021 and 2022, when Amazon Science asked members of the program committees of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD) to discuss the state of their field, the conversations revolved around graph neural networks.
