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  1. Research Focus: April 09, 2025

    Research Focus: Week of April 7, 2025 

    April 9, 2025

    In this issue: We introduce a new dataset designed to assist renewable energy infrastructure planners, a new method for denoising MRI imagery, and an AI tool for analyzing distant galaxies. Check out our latest research and other updates.Ā 

  2. Research Focus -- Week of March 24

    Research Focus: Week of March 24, 2025 

    March 26, 2025

    In this issue, we examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic maps. Check out the latest research and other updates.

  3. Research Focus: Week of January 31, 2025

    Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025 

    January 31, 2025

    In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.

  4. Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024 

    November 13, 2024

    Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.

  5. CVPR 2024 logo on a green and purple abstract background

    Microsoft at CVPR 2024: Innovations in computer vision and AI research 

    June 17, 2024

    Microsoft is proud to sponsor the 41st annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), held from June 17 to June 21. This premier conference covers a broad spectrum of topics in the field, including 3D reconstruction and modeling, action and motion analysis,…

  6. Research Focus: June 10, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of June 10, 2024 

    June 12, 2024

    In this issue: RELEVANCE automatically evaluates creative LLM responses; Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards; Lean Attention: Hardware-aware scalable attention mechanism; WaveCoder: a fine-tuned code LLM; New AutoGen training course.

  7. Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024 

    May 2, 2024

    In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performance disparities on blind/low vision data; plus recent news.

  8. Research Focus April 15, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024 

    April 17, 2024

    In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:

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