A new dataset with over 238,000 images challenges and advances the state of the art in visual defect detection for complex retail applications.
To transform scientific domains, foundation models will require physical-constraint satisfaction, uncertainty quantification, and specialized forecasting techniques that overcome data scarcity while maintaining scientific rigor.
The language AI agents might speak, sharing context without compromising privacy, modeling agentic negotiations, and understanding users’ commonsense policies are some of the open scientific questions that researchers in agentic AI will need to grapple with.
With a novel parallel-computing architecture, a CAD-to-USD pipeline, and the use of OpenUSD as ground truth, a new simulator can explore hundreds of sensor configurations in the time it takes to test just a few physical setups.
From reimagining storage to serverless computing, Aurora continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in database technology.
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Amazon Research Awards have opened their Fall call for proposals, which closes November 5, 2025.
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The company's new state-of-the-art foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
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VLDB 20252025Cloud service providers usually leverage standard benchmarks such as TPC-H and TPC-DS to evaluate and optimize the performance of cloud data analytic systems. However, these benchmarks have fixed query patterns and are unable to effectively generate statistics of the cloud workloads in production. For example, they cannot simulate the real workload with the similar performance metrics such as CPU Time and
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ACM CCS 20252025Motivated by applications to efficient secure computation, we consider the following problem of encrypted matrix-vector product (EMVP). Let F be a finite field. In an offline phase, a client uploads an encryption of a matrix M ∈ F^(m×ℓ) to a server, keeping only a short secret key. The server stores the encrypted matrix M̂. In the online phase, the client may repeatedly send encryptions q̂_i of query vectors
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2025Quantifying uncertainty in black-box LLMs is vital for reliable responses and scalable oversight. Existing methods, which gauge a model's uncertainty through evaluating self-consistency in responses to the target query, can be misleading: an LLM may confidently provide an incorrect answer to a target query, yet give a confident and accurate answer to that same target query when answering a knowledge-preserving
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EMNLP 2025 Findings2025Large language models (LLMs) often fail to scale their performance on long-context tasks performance in line with the context lengths they support. This gap is commonly attributed to retrieval failures—the models' inability to identify relevant information in the long inputs. Accordingly, recent efforts often focus on evaluating and improving LLMs' retrieval performance: if retrieval is perfect, a model
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Despite significant advancements in time series forecasting, accurate modeling of time series with strong heterogeneity in magnitude and/or sparsity patterns remains challenging for state of the art deep learning architectures. We identify several factors that lead existing models to systematically under-perform on low magnitude and sparse time series, including loss functions with implicit biases toward
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