How Prodege saved $1.5 million in annual human review costs using low-code computer vision AI

This post was co-authored by Arun Gupta, the Director of Business Intelligence at Prodege, LLC. Prodege is a data-driven marketing and consumer insights platform comprised of consumer brands—Swagbucks, MyPoints, Tada, ySense, InboxDollars, InboxPounds, DailyRewards, PollFish, and Upromise—along with a complementary suite of business solutions for marketers and researchers. Prodege has 120 million users and has … Read more

Identifying and avoiding common data issues while building no code ML models with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Business analysts work with data and like to analyze, explore, and understand data to achieve effective business outcomes. To address business problems, they often rely on machine learning (ML) practitioners such as data scientists to assist with techniques such as utilizing ML to build models using existing data and generate predictions. However, it isn’t always … Read more

Brain tumor segmentation at scale using AWS Inferentia

Medical imaging is an important tool for the diagnosis and localization of disease. Over the past decade, collections of medical images have grown rapidly, and open repositories such as The Cancer Imaging Archive and Imaging Data Commons have democratized access to this vast imaging data. Computational tools such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence … Read more

Serve multiple models with Amazon SageMaker and Triton Inference Server

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service for data science and machine learning (ML) workflows. It helps data scientists and developers prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality ML models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML. In 2021, AWS announced the integration of NVIDIA Triton Inference Server in SageMaker. You … Read more

Model Hosting Patterns in SageMaker: Best practices in testing and updating models on SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides developers and data scientists the ability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. With SageMaker, you can deploy your ML models on hosted endpoints and get inference results in real time. You can easily view the performance metrics for your endpoints in Amazon … Read more

“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 … Read more

Getting started with deploying real-time models on Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at scale. ML is realized in inference. SageMaker offers four Inference options: Real-Time Inference Serverless Inference Asynchronous Inference Batch Transform These four options can be broadly classified into Online … Read more

Predict lung cancer survival status using multimodal data on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer, and is composed of tumors with significant molecular heterogeneity resulting from differences in intrinsic oncogenic signaling pathways [1]. Enabling precision medicine, anticipating patient preferences, detecting disease, and improving care quality for NSCLC patients are important topics among healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) … Read more

Cost-effective data preparation for machine learning using SageMaker Data Wrangler

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a capability of Amazon SageMaker that makes it faster for data scientists and engineers to prepare high-quality features for machine learning (ML) applications via a visual interface. Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for ML from weeks to minutes. With Data Wrangler, you can … Read more

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

In December 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart provides one-click fine-tuning and deployment of a wide variety of pre-trained models across popular ML tasks, as well as a selection of end-to-end solutions that … Read more

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

In December 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart provides one-click fine-tuning and deployment of a wide variety of pre-trained models across popular ML tasks, as well as a selection of end-to-end solutions that … Read more

Deploy BLOOM-176B and OPT-30B on Amazon SageMaker with large model inference Deep Learning Containers and DeepSpeed

The last few years have seen rapid development in the field of deep learning. Although hardware has improved, such as with the latest generation of accelerators from NVIDIA and Amazon, advanced machine learning (ML) practitioners still regularly encounter issues deploying their large deep learning models for applications such as natural language processing (NLP). In an … Read more

Use Github Samples with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a UI-based data preparation tool that helps perform data analysis, preprocessing, and visualization with features to clean, transform, and prepare data faster. Data Wrangler pre-built flow templates help make data preparation quicker for data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners by helping you accelerate and understand best practice patterns for … Read more

Transfer learning for TensorFlow object detection models in Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners get started on training and deploying ML models quickly. You can use these algorithms and models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data, including tabular, … Read more

Transfer learning for TensorFlow text classification models in Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners get started training and deploying ML models quickly. You can use these algorithms and models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data, including tabular, image, … Read more

Intelligent document processing with AWS AI and Analytics services in the insurance industry: Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed intelligent document processing (IDP), and how IDP can accelerate claims processing use cases in the insurance industry. We discussed how we can use AWS AI services to accurately categorize claims documents along with supporting documents. We also discussed how to extract various types of documents in an … Read more

Intelligent document processing with AWS AI services in the insurance industry: Part 1

The goal of intelligent document processing (IDP) is to help your organization make faster and more accurate decisions by applying AI to process your paperwork. This two-part series highlights the AWS AI technologies that insurance companies can use to speed up their business processes. These AI technologies can be used across insurance use cases such … Read more

Improving stability and flexibility of ML pipelines at Amazon Packaging Innovation with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

To delight customers and minimize packaging waste, Amazon must select the optimal packaging type for billions of packages shipped every year. If too little protection is used for a fragile item such as a coffee mug, the item will arrive damaged and Amazon risks their customer’s trust. Using too much protection will result in increased … Read more

Improve data extraction and document processing with Amazon Textract

Intelligent document processing (IDP) has seen widespread adoption across enterprise and government organizations. Gartner estimates the IDP market will grow more than 100% year over year, and is projected to reach $4.8 billion in 2022. IDP helps transform structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a variety of document formats into actionable information. Processing unstructured data … Read more

Automated exploratory data analysis and model operationalization framework with a human in the loop

Identifying, collecting, and transforming data is the foundation for machine learning (ML). According to a Forbes survey, there is widespread consensus among ML practitioners that data preparation accounts for approximately 80% of the time spent in developing a viable ML model. In addition, many of our customers face several challenges during the model operationalization phase … Read more

Move Amazon SageMaker Autopilot ML models from experimentation to production using Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best custom machine learning (ML) models based on your data. It’s an automated machine learning (AutoML) solution that eliminates the heavy lifting of handwritten ML models that requires ML expertise. Data scientists need to only provide a tabular dataset and select the target column to predict, … Read more

Startups across AWS Accelerators use AI and ML to solve mission-critical customer challenges

Relentless advancement in technology is improving the decision-making capacity of humans and enterprises alike. Digitization of the physical world has accelerated the three dimensions of data: velocity, variety, and volume. This has made information more widely available than before, allowing for advancements in problem-solving. Now, with cloud-enabled democratized availability, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and … Read more

Cost efficient ML inference with multi-framework models on Amazon SageMaker 

Machine learning (ML) has proven to be one of the most successful and widespread applications of technology, affecting a wide range of industries and impacting billions of users every day. With this rapid adoption of ML into every industry, companies are facing challenges in supporting low-latency predictions and with high availability while maximizing resource utilization … Read more

Solve business problems end-to-end through machine learning in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart solutions

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides pre-trained, open-source models for a wide range of problem types to help you get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart also provides solution templates that set up infrastructure for common use cases, and executable example notebooks for ML with Amazon SageMaker. As a business user, you get to do the following … Read more

Train gigantic models with near-linear scaling using sharded data parallelism on Amazon SageMaker

In the pursuit of superior accuracy, deep learning models in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision have significantly grown in size in the past few years, frequently counted in tens to hundreds of billions of parameters. Training these gigantic models is challenging and requires complex distribution strategies. Data scientists and machine learning … Read more

Improve price performance of your model training using Amazon SageMaker heterogeneous clusters

This post is co-written with Chaim Rand from Mobileye. Certain machine learning (ML) workloads, such as training computer vision models or reinforcement learning, often involve combining the GPU- or accelerator-intensive task of neural network model training with the CPU-intensive task of data preprocessing, like image augmentation. When both types of tasks run on the same … Read more

Reduce food waste to improve sustainability and financial results in retail with Amazon Forecast

With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives becoming more important for companies, our customer, one of Greater China region’s top convenience store chains, has been seeking a solution to reduce food waste (currently over $3.5 million USD per year). Doing so will allow them to not only realize substantial operating savings, but also support corporate … Read more

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports grid search

Today Amazon SageMaker announced the support of Grid search for automatic model tuning, providing users with an additional strategy to find the best hyperparameter configuration for your model. Amazon SageMaker automatic model tuning finds the best version of a model by running many training jobs on your dataset using a range of hyperparameters that you … Read more

Introducing the Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Benchmarking Toolkit

Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is a purpose-built inference option that makes it easy for you to deploy and scale machine learning (ML) models. It provides a pay-per-use model, which is ideal for services where endpoint invocations are infrequent and unpredictable. Unlike a real-time hosting endpoint, which is backed by a long-running instance, compute resources for … Read more

Deploy a machine learning inference data capture solution on AWS Lambda

Monitoring machine learning (ML) predictions can help improve the quality of deployed models. Capturing the data from inferences made in production can enable you to monitor your deployed models and detect deviations in model quality. Early and proactive detection of these deviations enables you to take corrective actions, such as retraining models, auditing upstream systems, … Read more