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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.

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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    Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024 

    August 28, 2024

    Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3;  WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.

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    Tracing the path to self-adapting AI agents 

    July 25, 2024 | Ching-An Cheng, Adith Swaminathan, and Allen Nie

    Introducing Trace, Microsoft and Stanford University's novel AI optimization framework, now available as a Python library. Trace adapts dynamically and optimizes a wide range of applications from language models to robot control.

  6. 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:

  7. Research Focus 31

    Research Focus: Week of December 18, 2023 

    December 20, 2023

    In this issue of Research Focus: Optimized exit-augmented models for scalable efficient inference; NeurIPS LLM Efficiency Challenge; LLM-empowered automated data exploration; Boosting cloud efficiency with data-driven decision-making and optimization.

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    Research Focus: Week of November 8, 2023 

    November 8, 2023

    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. Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is essential for creating high quality immersive experiences in…

  9. FOCS 2023 paper: Toward developing faster algorithms for minimizing submodular functions

    Toward developing faster algorithms for minimizing submodular functions 

    November 7, 2023 | Haotian Jiang

    This research paper was presented at the 64th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2023 (opens in new tab), a premier forum for the latest research in theoretical computer science. Submodular functions are versatile mathematical tools, finding diverse applications in real-world scenarios and…

  10. Research Focus October 11, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of October 9, 2023 

    October 11, 2023

    Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.

  11. Microsoft Research Focus 17 | Week of June 5, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of June 5, 2023 

    June 7, 2023

    In this issue: Peter Lee discusses AI in medicine. Plus, new research on data inference privacy in machine learning; PII leakage in language models; and automatic prompt organization with gradient descent and beam search.

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