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Semantic Telemetry: Understanding how users interact with AI systems 

March 10, 2025
AI interactions can be iterative and complex. Learn how the Semantic Telemetry project at Microsoft Research is developing a new data science approach to understand human-AI interactions and their value.

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  1. 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.

  2. Research Focus: January 17, 2025

    Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025 

    January 17, 2025

    In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.

  3. Research Focus | September 23, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of September 23, 2024 

    September 25, 2024

    Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict future values based on previously observed data points over time.…

  4. Research Focus: July 15, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of July 15, 2024 

    July 17, 2024

    Advancing time series analysis with multi-granularity guided diffusion model; An algorithm-system co-design for fast, scalable MoE inference; What makes a search metric successful in large-scale settings; learning to solve PDEs without simulated data.

  5. Research Focus April 1, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of April 1, 2024 

    April 3, 2024

    In this issue: New research helps COMET embrace African languages; FeatUp improves deep features, a computer vision research cornerstone; LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error; Benchmarking LLMs across languages and more.

  6. flowchart showing how AI learns from user interactions

    Learning from interaction with Microsoft Copilot (web) 

    March 27, 2024

    Microsoft researchers are taking a comprehensive and dynamic approach to help Copilot (web) continuously learn from interaction and feedback, improving the AI system and making it increasingly useful for consumers. Learn more.

  7. Research Focus Week of January 22, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of January 22, 2024 

    January 24, 2024

    Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Join Microsoft Research Forum (opens in new tab) for a continuous exchange of ideas about science and technology…

  8. Research Focus - week of January 8, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024 

    January 10, 2024

    Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:

  9. Microsoft Research Focus 16 | Week of May 22, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of May 22, 2023 

    May 24, 2023

    In this edition: New research explores the causal ability of LLMs and DNA storage in thermoresponsive capsules; a talk on human-centered AI; and a CFP for funding for LLM productivity research projects from the Microsoft New Future of Work Initiative.

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