An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements that humans never see or cannot interpret directly. Your smartphone processes raw sensor data through algorithms before …
A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This smarter strategy boosted success rates to 81%, with the robot even switching angles when needed. The breakthrough could pave the way for …
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Large Language Models (LLMs) often lack meaningful confidence estimates for their outputs. While base LLMs are known to exhibit next-token calibration, it remains unclear whether they can assess confidence in the actual meaning of their responses beyond the token level. We find that, when using a certain sampling-based notion of semantic calibration, base LLMs are …
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Industrial and defense environments generate massive amounts of data that can’t wait for the cloud. Latency is often measured in milliseconds, and resiliency is paramount. A manufacturing plant can’t go down due to flaky Wi-Fi or a public cloud outage. “Traditional” approaches — shipping servers, hiring local IT, bespoke development, managing one-off deployments — simply don’t scale. Critical operations …
Valentin Geffrier, Tanguy Cornuau Each year, we bring the Analytics Engineering community together for an Analytics Summit — a multi-day internal conference to share analytical deliverables across Netflix, discuss analytic practice, and build relationships within the community. This post is one of several topics presented at the Summit highlighting the breadth and impact of Analytics work across different …
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Deploying large language models (LLMs) for inference requires reliable GPU capacity, especially during critical evaluation periods, limited-duration production testing, or burst workloads. Capacity constraints can delay deployments and impact application performance. Customers can use Amazon SageMaker AI training plans to reserve compute capacity for specified time periods. Originally designed for training workloads, training plans now …
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At Google Cloud, serving the massive-scale needs of large foundation model builders and AI-native companies is at the forefront of our AI infrastructure strategy. As generative AI transitions to mission-critical production environments, these innovators require dynamic, relentlessly efficient infrastructure to overcome complex orchestration challenges and power an agentic future. To meet this moment, we are …
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Traditional search engines have historically relied on keyword search.
By Harshad Sane Ranker is one of the largest and most complex services at Netflix. Among many things, it powers the personalized rows you see on the Netflix homepage, and runs at an enormous scale. When we looked at CPU profiles for this service, one feature kept standing out: video serendipity scoring — the logic that answers a …
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