Scaling Categorical Flow Maps

Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they unlock a host of advantages currently reserved for continuous modalities, including accelerated sampling and tilting. Recently, several works have demonstrated the possibility of generating discrete data continuously by a simple flow matching process between a …

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How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC execution API Authors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit Koti This is the third entry of a multi-part blog series describing how we built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG). In Part 1, we discussed the motivation for creating the RDG and the architecture …

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How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Prior authorization is the approval process health plans require before covering certain medical services or medications. It remains one of the most manual processes in healthcare, not because the medical reasoning for requiring approval is flawed, but because the policies that govern it are trapped in static, unstructured formats that resist automation. This content is …

Locking Pretrained Weights via Deep Low-Rank Residual Distillation

The quality of open-weight language models has dramatically improved in recent years. Sharing weights greatly facilitates model adoption by enabling their use across diverse hardware and software platforms. They also allow for more open research and testing, to the extent that users can use them as checkpoints, fine-tune them according to their needs, and potentially …

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Securing AI agents with temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Before AI agents, it was generally sufficient for access controls to treat each action as an independent event. Applications relied on deterministic business logic to enforce whether actions happened in the right order or whether the data was up-to-date. AI agents behave in fundamentally different ways than traditional applications. They decide at runtime which tools …

Your agentic summer: No-cost lessons from Google experts to build and scale agents

I’ve talked to developers, IT leaders, and builders who all ask the same question: How do we actually get agents into production?  The answer isn’t theoretical — it’s hands-on. Whether it’s designing a system that allows your agents to interact with external data sources while maintaining strict security guardrails or creating self-optimizing supply chain workflows …

Taming Outlier Tokens in Diffusion Transformers

We study outlier tokens in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for image generation. Prior work has shown that Vision Transformers (ViTs) can produce a small number of high-norm tokens that attract disproportionate attention while carrying limited local information, but their role in generative models remains underexplored. We show that this phenomenon appears in both the encoder and …

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AI Sovereignty is Your Alpha: How to Avoid Transferring Your Alpha to a Hosted Model Provider

Use of third party AI model services poses significant risk to your alpha. Without sovereign control over how your data is processed by those services (either the AI Labs or the Hyperscalers, collectively referred to as “Hosted Model Providers”), Hosted Model Providers may extract your alpha (your unique institutional knowledge and tradecraft embodied in data …

Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics

by Aarti Laddha, Richard Diaz-Cool, Rishika Idnani, Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud gaming, across a diverse ecosystem of devices. However, not all devices are created equal. Hardware limitations such as available RAM, CPU cores, …

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How LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock

Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people face, and LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock to make the process more straightforward. The assistant educates borrowers, understands their situation, and provides tailored options in a natural conversation. Borrowers must weigh purchase or refinance, conventional or government-backed, 15-year or …