Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jian Wang

David Alan Lutz

Timothy Andrew Rath

Akshat Vig

Stuart Henry Seelye Marshall

Rande Anthony Blackman

Jiandan Zheng

Janani Narayanan

Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy

Maximiliano Maccanti

Jai Vasanth

Barry Bailey Hunter, Jr

Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri

Liyong Chen

Lon-Chan Chu

Jiang Wu

Tanya Matskewich

Mohammed El-Gammal

Qiang Wang

Xianglong Huang

Senthil Kumar Velayutham

Xiaoxu Ma

Yaser Al-Onaizan

Marcello Federico

David Kilgrow

Yingnong Dang

Georgiana Dinu

Prashant Mathur

Armen Hovhannisyan

Eric J Nowell

Aakash Upadhyay

Anna Currey

Haiyu Yao

Quiang Wang

Chunhui Zhang

A translation system receives examples of translations between a first language and a second language. In response to receiving request to translate a source text from the first language to the second language, the system ranks the examples based on the example's applicability to one or more portions of the source text. The system performs additional training of a neural network that was pre-trained to translate from the first language to the second language, where the additional training is based on one or more top-ranking examples. The system translates the source text to the second language using the additionally trained neural network.

Machine translation with adapted neural networks

Methods and apparatus for conditional master election in a distributed database are described. A plurality of replicas of a database object are stored by a distributed database service. Some types of operations corresponding to client requests directed at the database object are to be coordinated by a master replica. Client access to the database object is enabled prior to election of a master replica. In response to a triggering condition, a particular replica is elected master. The master coordinates implementation of operations with one or more other replicas in response to client requests.

Conditional master election in distributed databases

Detecting replica faults within a replica group and dynamically scheduling replica healing operations are described. Status metadata for one or more replica groups may be accessed. Based, at least in part, the status data a number of available replicas for at least one replica group may be determined to incompliant with a healthy state definition for the replica group. One or more healing operations to restore the number of available replicas for the at least one replica group to the respective healthy state definition may be dynamically scheduled. In some embodiments, one or more resource constraints for performing healing operations and one or more resource requirements for each of the one or more healing operations may be used to order the one or more healing operations.

Dynamic replica failure detection and healing

A computer-implemented simulated emboldening mechanism for emboldening an input Black and White bitmap to generate an emboldened Anti-Aliasing bitmap. The simulated emboldening adjusts the intensity of the pixel in the direction of emboldening taking into account contextual information regarding surrounding pixels. Since the emboldening is not limited to a Black and White output bitmap, and since the emboldening takes such contextual information into account, legibility and readability of the resulting emboldened character is enhanced.

Use of an input black and white bitmap to generate emboldened anti-aliasing bitmap

Performing conferencing without requiring communication using a specific connection port. A software module receives a function call from a conferencing application. The function call may include high-level instructions to perform a basic conferencing function, such as the communication of data from a specified buffer area. The software module then performs all of the details necessary in order to establish and maintain a connection with a conferencing server (or with one or more other participants in the case of peer-to-peer conferencing). While the conferencing application may be configured to optionally perform teleconferencing using a particular conferencing protocol and a particular conferencing connection port without the use of the software module, the software module may also be optionally used to establish, maintain, and exchanging conferencing information over an entirely different port when, for example, the usual conferencing connection port is not available.

Conferencing using flexible connection ports

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