Large language models (LLMs) have come to dominate the field of natural-language processing, so it’s no surprise that they also dominate the research that Amazon scientists...
Amazon today announced that a team from NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) in Portugal has earned first place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot...
Everyone’s had the experience of pausing mid-sentence during a conversation, trying to conjure a forgotten word. These pauses can be so pronounced that today’s voice assistants...
Between the main conference and the recently inaugurated ACL Proceedings, Amazon researchers have more than 65 papers at this year’s meeting of the Association for Computational...
To hear Shrikanth Narayanan describe it, every single human conversation is a feat of engineering — a complex system for creating and interpreting a dizzying array...
Put your hand up if you enjoy using your TV remote to type in the name of the show you want to watch next. Who doesn’t...
Amazon today announced that a team from the University of Michigan has won the Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge. The SimBot Challenge’s goal is to advance the...
In October of 2021, Amazon and MIT announced the establishment of the Science Hub. That collaboration, which aims to ensure the benefits of AI and robotics...
The machine learning models that power conversational agents like Alexa are typically trained on labeled data, but data collection and labeling are expensive and complex, creating...
Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for compressing large machine learning models into manageable sizes, to make them suitable for low-latency applications such as voice assistants....