The submission opens October 1 and closes on November 12, 2025
New technologies are helping vulnerable communities produce maps that integrate topographical, infrastructural, seasonal, and real-time data — an essential tool for many humanitarian endeavors.
Amazon vice president and distinguished engineer Marc Brooker explains how agentic systems work under the hood — and how AWS’s new AgentCore framework implements their essential components.
In-context learning enables a model that can solve forecasting tasks with an arbitrary number of dimensions in a zero-shot manner.
A new dataset with over 238,000 images challenges and advances the state of the art in visual defect detection for complex retail applications.
Customer-obsessed science
Amazon's unique approach to research is characterized by its customer-obsessed science philosophy, which drives innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other cutting-edge technologies.
Research areas
-
January 26, 20262 min readLeveraging existing environment simulators and reward functions based on verifiable ground truth boosts task success rate, even with small models and small training datasets. -
-
-
September 23, 20256 min readMachine learning
-
Featured news
Initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.
The collaboration will advance research in generative AI, robotics, natural language processing and cloud computing while fostering innovation in foundational and emerging technologies.
University teams battle to harden and hack AI coding assistants in head-to-head tournament
David Chang/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Led by David Luan and Pieter Abbeel, the lab will focus on developing new foundational capabilities for enabling useful AI agents.
The company's new state-of-the-art foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
-
SigDial 2025 DSTC-12 Workshop2025Conversational analytics has been on the forefront of transformation driven by the advances in Speech and Natural Language Processing techniques. Rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the analytics field has taken the problems that can be automated to a new level of complexity and scale. In this paper, we introduce Theme Detection as a critical task in conversational analytics, aimed at automatically
-
IJCAI 2025 Workshop on User-Aligned Assessment of Adaptive AI Systems2025Effectively assessing AI systems, particularly those operating in specialized domains or producing dynamic outputs, requires translating nuanced human expertise into scalable, quantitative measures. Traditional metrics often fall short in capturing qualitative requirements that domain experts intuitively grasp. This paper presents a novel framework that systematically transforms qualitative expert feedback
-
RecSys 20252025Audio streaming services, on both voice assistants and in visual apps, often field requests such as 'play more like Foo Fighters.' The service then returns a sequence of tracks that is both relevant to the request and personalized to the requester. While it is natural to evaluate the policies that produce these sequences in terms of customer engagement, such metrics do not assess their performance on other
-
2025Behavioral therapy notes are important for both legal compliance and patient care. Unlike progress notes in physical health, quality standards for behavioral therapy notes remain underdeveloped. To address this gap, we collaborated with licensed therapists to design a comprehensive rubric for evaluating therapy notes across key dimensions: completeness, conciseness, and faithfulness. Further, we extend
-
2025We present a novel large-scale dataset for defect detection in a logistics setting. Recent work on industrial anomaly detection has primarily focused on manufacturing scenarios with highly controlled poses and a limited number of object categories. Existing benchmarks like MVTec-AD [6] and VisA [33] have reached saturation, with state-of-the-art methods achieving up to 99.9% AUROC scores. In contrast to
Collaborations
View allWhether you're a faculty member or student, there are number of ways you can engage with Amazon.
View all
Gretchen Ertl
The program offers unrestricted funds and other resources to support research at academic institutions and non-profit organizations in areas that align with our mission.
A global university competition to drive secure innovation in generative AI technology, which focuses on responsible AI and large language model coding security.
Credit: Wolfram Scheible
We partner with particular academic organizations across the world for deep and sustained collaborations in multiple research areas of mutual interest.
Courtesy of Pai-Ling Yin
We hire world-class academics to work on large-scale technical challenges, while they continue to teach and conduct research at their universities.
