Apple MLAMUSE: Audio-Visual Benchmark and Alignment Framework for Agentic Multi-Speaker Understanding
Explores AMUSE, a multimodal audio-visual benchmark for agentic multi-speaker understanding, and RAFT, a data-efficient alignment framework that enhances agentic reasoning via reward-based optimization and intrinsic self-evaluation in multimodal models.
Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review
A concise technical review of how Airbnb's engineering innovations intersect with academic publications to define the 2025 year-in-review in tech.
AWS MLBuild an intelligent photo search using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Bedrock
Build a scalable, serverless photo-search system that combines Amazon Rekognition for face and object detection, Amazon Neptune for relationship graphs, and Amazon Bedrock for contextual captioning to enable natural-language, semantic search across large image collections.
PinterestPiqama: Pinterest Quota Management Ecosystem
A technical overview of Piqama, an ecosystem for Pinterest quota management.
Jane StreetCan you reverse engineer our neural network?
A concise deep-dive into reverse-engineering a handcrafted neural network puzzle using mechanistic interpretability and constraint solving (linear/integer programming and SAT) to expose an MD5-like computation encoded in its layers.
Apple MLBeyond a Single Extractor: Re-thinking HTML-to-Text Extraction for LLM Pretraining
Examines HTML-to-Text extraction for LLM pretraining and shows that unioning multiple extractors increases token yield by up to 71% while enhancing coverage for structured content such as tables and code blocks without compromising benchmark performance.
Apple MLThe Potential of CoT for Reasoning: A Closer Look at Trace Dynamics
A technical synthesis of Chain-of-Thought reasoning, introducing Trace Dynamics and a 'potential' metric to quantify how CoT steps influence the likelihood of correct completions, with insights on transferability across LLMs and implications for LRMs and VLMs.
AWS MLIntroducing Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference for Anthropic’s Claude models in the Middle East Regions (UAE and Bahrain)
Amazon Bedrock enables global cross-Region inference for Anthropic Claude models in the Middle East (UAE and Bahrain), delivering scalable, secure, low-latency AI workloads across Regions with automated routing and unified observability.
AWS MLGlobal cross-Region inference for latest Anthropic Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models on Amazon Bedrock in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan
Global cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock enables scalable deployment of Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan with resilient routing, quota management, and production-grade monitoring.
AWS MLGenerate structured output from LLMs with Dottxt Outlines in AWS
Explains how Dottxt's Outlines on AWS enables strict, schema-driven structured outputs from LLMs via generation-time validation in Amazon SageMaker, with deployment through AWS Marketplace and practical integration benefits.
AWS MLTrain CodeFu-7B with veRL and Ray on Amazon SageMaker Training jobs
A practical guide to training CodeFu-7B with veRL and Ray on Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs, detailing distributed reinforcement learning workflows, data preparation, multi-node orchestration, and observability for scalable competitive programming code generation models.
Checkmate your goals: How to become a chess grandmaster
A concise, technique-driven blueprint for achieving chess grandmaster status by meeting FIDE rating thresholds, earning three norms, and sustaining disciplined, iterative improvement.