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Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025 

May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.

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  1. Research Focus: May 07, 2025

    Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025 

    May 7, 2025

    In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.

  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: 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.

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    AIOpsLab: Building AI agents for autonomous clouds 

    December 20, 2024

    AIOpsLab is an open-source framework designed to evaluate and improve AI agents for cloud operations, offering standardized, scalable benchmarks for real-world testing, enhancing cloud system reliability.

  6. 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.

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    Research Focus: Week of October 28, 2024 

    November 1, 2024

    New Research | FLASH: Workflow automation agent for diagnosing recurring incidents; METAREFLECTION: Learning instructions for language agents using past reflections; Boosting LLM training efficiency through faster communication between GPUs; and more.

  8. Research Focus | October 7, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024 

    October 9, 2024

    Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads.

  9. Research Focus | September 9, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of September 9, 2024 

    September 12, 2024

    Investigating vulnerabilities in LLMs; A novel total-duration-aware (TDA) duration model for text-to-speech (TTS); Generative expert metric system through iterative prompt priming; Integrity protection in 5G fronthaul networks:

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