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    Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach 

    September 6, 2023

    New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.

  2. Rethinking trust in direct messages in the AI era - blog hero showing a flowchart diagram

    Rethinking trust in direct messages in the AI era 

    September 5, 2023

    Microsoft researchers are proposing a new way to ensure greater trust and accountability in email, texts, direct messages on social platforms, even phone calls, to help mitigate sophisticated threats from AI-related scams and fraud.

  3. Microsoft Research Focus 23 | Week of August 14, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of August 28, 2023 

    August 30, 2023

    In this issue: An illusion of predictability in scientific results; Kathleen Sullivan named to Insider’s 30 under 40 in healthcare list; FiGURe: Simple and Efficient Unsupervised Node Representations with Filter Augmentations.

  4. 'Model Representation' with an arrow down to 'Tile-based IR' with an arrow down to 'Hardware Abstraction' to the left of four icons representing a Rammer, Roller, Welder, and Grinder

    Building a “heavy metal quartet” of AI compilers 

    August 30, 2023

    A new quartet of AI compilers: Rammer, Roller, Welder, and Grinder, tackle a range of compiler optimization challenges based on the same tile abstraction, providing a comprehensive solution to connect AI models with hardware accelerators.

  5. Microsoft Research Focus 22 | Week of August 14, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of August 14, 2023 

    August 16, 2023

    In this issue: HyWay enables hybrid mingling; Auto-Tables transforms non-relational tables into standard relational forms; training dense retrievers to identify high-quality in-context examples for LLM; improving pronunciation assessment in CAPT.

  6. The KDD2023 logo in white with the dates August 6-10 and the city Long Beach, CA on a green and blue gradient background

    Microsoft at KDD 2023: Advancing health at the speed of AI 

    August 10, 2023 | Hoifung Poon

    This content was given as a keynote at the Workshop of Applied Data Science for Healthcare and covered during a tutorial at the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (opens in new tab), a premier forum for advancement, education, and adoption…

  7. Microsoft Research Focus 21 | Week of July 31, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of July 31, 2023 

    August 2, 2023

    In this edition: A new anonymous token protocol balances fraud detection and privacy; survival instinct in offline RL; Nimble offers rollback protection for confidential cloud services; improved machine learning force fields for molecular dynamics.

  8. "Microsoft at OSDI 23: Hyrax: Fail-in-Place Server Operation in Cloud Platforms" on a dark blue-purple abstract background with the OSDI 23 logo underneath and an image of the first page of the "Hyrax: Fail-in-Place Server Operation in Cloud Platforms" paper to the right.

    A fail-in-place approach for sustainable server operations 

    July 27, 2023

    Managing server failures at the scale of a cloud platform is challenging. The Hyrax fail-in-place approach reduces the need for immediate repairs and creates a path toward lowering water consumption and carbon emissions in cloud datacenters.

  9. Microsoft Research Focus 20 | Week of July 17, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of July 17, 2023 

    July 19, 2023

    RetroRanker mitigates frequency bias in predictions of retrosynthesis models; new algorithm beats PPO on language tasks; DER dataset aids grid planning; improved PPML balances privacy & accuracy across shared data; ASL Citizen boosts sign language modeling.