AWS Machine Learning Blog

Category: Foundational (100)

Separate lines of business or teams with multiple Amazon SageMaker domains

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the ML workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. To access SageMaker Studio, Amazon SageMaker Canvas, or other Amazon ML environments like RStudio on Amazon SageMaker, […]

AlexaTM 20B is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model with 20 billion parameters  (AlexaTM 20B) through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, SageMaker’s machine learning hub. AlexaTM 20B is a multilingual large-scale sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model developed by Amazon. You can use AlexaTM 20B for a wide […]

“ID + Selfie” – Improving digital identity verification using AWS

The COVID-19 global pandemic has accelerated the need to verify and onboard users online across several industries, such as financial services, insurance, and healthcare. When it comes to user experience it is crucial to provide a frictionless transaction while maintaining a high standard for identity verification.  The question is, how do you verify real people […]

Generate images from text with the stable diffusion model on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

March 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with support for Stable Diffusion inpainting model. Today, we announce that Stable Diffusion 1 and Stable Diffusion 2 are available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. JumpStart is the machine learning (ML) hub of SageMaker that provides hundreds of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and end-to-end solution templates to help you quickly get started with […]

Run text generation with Bloom and GPT models on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today, we announce that large language models Bloom and GPT-2 are available in SageMaker JumpStart. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is the machine learning hub of SageMaker that provides hundreds of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and end-to-end solution templates to help customers quickly get started with machine learning (ML). You can use these models for a wide […]

Transfer learning for TensorFlow object detection models in Amazon SageMaker

July 2023: You can also use the newly launched JumpStart APIs, an extension of the SageMaker Python SDK. These APIs allow you to programmatically deploy and fine-tune a vast selection of JumpStart-supported pre-trained models on your own datasets. Please refer to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models and algorithms now available via API for more details on how […]

Transfer learning for TensorFlow text classification models in Amazon SageMaker

July 2023: You can also use the newly launched JumpStart APIs, an extension of the SageMaker Python SDK. These APIs allow you to programmatically deploy and fine-tune a vast selection of JumpStart-supported pre-trained models on your own datasets. Please refer to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models and algorithms now available via API for more details on how […]

Configure DTMF slots and ordered retry prompts with Amazon Lex

This post walks you through a few new features that make it simple to design a conversational flow entirely within Amazon Lex that adheres to best practices for IVR design related to retry prompting. We also cover how to configure a DTMF-only prompt as well as other attributes like timeouts and barge-in. When designing an […]

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart solutions now support custom IAM role settings

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart solutions are a feature within Amazon SageMaker Studio that allow a simple-click experience to set up your own machine learning (ML) workflows. When you launch a solution, various of AWS resources are set up in your account to demonstrate how the business problem can be solved using the pre-built architecture. The solutions […]