Ping Xu has held a variety of optimization and demand forecasting roles at Amazon for nearly 15 years. She first joined the company as a full-time...
Six years ago, while pursuing her PhD in management information systems from Purdue University, Na Zhang did a three-month internship with Amazon’s fraud detection machine learning...
The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is the premier conference in the field of computer vision, and the Amazon papers accepted there...
Since first being announced in 2014, Alexa has continuously become more natural, knowledgeable, conversational, context-aware, and capable of self-learning. All this has been achieved through the...
The rapid spread of COVID-19 demonstrates the dire need for quick and effective drug discovery. Drug repurposing is a drug discovery paradigm that uses existing drugs...
Korean is a major world language, spoken by some 80 million people. Although it has a long history, dating back to what is believed to be...
Gradient-boosted decision trees are a machine learning model commonly used in large-scale, online search applications because they combine high accuracy with high efficiency. Maintaining that efficiency,...
Formal verification is the process of using automatic proof procedures to establish that a computer program will do what it’s supposed to. Given a mathematical specification...
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The first step in most natural-language-processing applications is tokenization, or breaking input strings into semantically relevant units. In many applications, these units are smaller than individual...