AWS Machine Learning Blog

Four approaches to manage Python packages in Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks

This post presents and compares options and recommended practices on how to manage Python packages and virtual environments in Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks. A public GitHub repo provides hands-on examples for each of the presented approaches. Amazon SageMaker Studio is a web-based, integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that lets you build, train, […]

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AI/ML-driven actionable insights and themes for Amazon third-party sellers using AWS

The Amazon International Seller Growth (ISG) team runs the CSBA (Customer Service by Amazon) program that supports over 200,000 third-party Merchant Fulfilled Network (MFN) sellers. Amazon call centers facilitate hundreds of thousands of phone calls, chats, and emails going between the consumers and Amazon MFN sellers. The large volume of contacts creates a challenge for […]

Announcing the Yammer connector for Amazon Kendra

Yammer is a social networking platform designed for open and dynamic communications and collaborations within organizations. It allows you to build communities of interest, gather ideas and feedback, and keep everyone informed. It’s available via browser or mobile app, and provides a variety of common social networking features such as private and public communities, news […]

Training large language models on Amazon SageMaker: Best practices

Language models are statistical methods predicting the succession of tokens in sequences, using natural text. Large language models (LLMs) are neural network-based language models with hundreds of millions (BERT) to over a trillion parameters (MiCS), and whose size makes single-GPU training impractical. LLMs’ generative abilities make them popular for text synthesis, summarization, machine translation, and […]

Index your Microsoft Exchange content using the Exchange connector for Amazon Kendra

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and simple-to-use intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). Amazon Kendra offers a suite of data source connectors to simplify the process of ingesting and indexing your content, wherever it resides. Valuable data in organizations is stored in both structured and unstructured repositories. An enterprise search solution should […]

Achieve rapid time-to-value business outcomes with faster ML model training using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Machine learning (ML) can help companies make better business decisions through advanced analytics. Companies across industries apply ML to use cases such as predicting customer churn, demand forecasting, credit scoring, predicting late shipments, and improving manufacturing quality. In this blog post, we’ll look at how Amazon SageMaker Canvas delivers faster and more accurate model training times enabling […]

Accelerate hyperparameter grid search for sentiment analysis with BERT models using Weights & Biases, Amazon EKS, and TorchElastic

Financial market participants are faced with an overload of information that influences their decisions, and sentiment analysis stands out as a useful tool to help separate out the relevant and meaningful facts and figures. However, the same piece of news can have a positive or negative impact on stock prices, which presents a challenge for […]

Search for answers accurately using Amazon Kendra S3 Connector with VPC support

Amazon Kendra is an easy-to-use intelligent search service that allows you to integrate search capabilities with your applications so users can find information stored across data sources like Amazon Simple Storage Service , OneDrive and Google Drive; applications such as SalesForce, SharePoint and Service Now; and relational databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Using […]

Virtual fashion styling with generative AI using Amazon SageMaker 

The fashion industry is a highly lucrative business, with an estimated value of $2.1 trillion by 2025, as reported by the World Bank. This field encompasses a diverse range of segments, such as the creation, manufacture, distribution, and sales of clothing, shoes, and accessories. The industry is in a constant state of change, with new […]

How Kakao Games automates lifetime value prediction from game data using Amazon SageMaker and AWS Glue

This post is co-written with Suhyoung Kim, General Manager at KakaoGames Data Analytics Lab. Kakao Games is a top video game publisher and developer headquartered in South Korea. It specializes in developing and publishing games on PC, mobile, and virtual reality (VR) serving globally. In order to maximize its players’ experience and improve the efficiency […]