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  1. Microsoft Research Focus 15 | Week of May 8, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023 

    May 10, 2023

    In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.

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    Using generative AI to imitate human behavior 

    May 4, 2023

    Diffusion models have been used to generate photorealistic images and short videos, compose music, and synthesize speech. In a new paper, Microsoft Researchers explore how they can be used to imitate human behavior in interactive environments.

  3. A flow chart demonstrating the five steps in a self-play pipeline for a language model to improve itself automatically.A self-play pipeline for a language model (LM) to improve itself in a fully automatic manner. First, the LM generates novel puzzles based on a training set of handwritten puzzles. Then, the LM attempts to solve each of these puzzles 100 times. In Step 3, the computer (specifically a Python interpreter) filters the candidate solutions for correctness. Finally, the LM is improved by further training on these verified correct solutions to synthetic puzzles, and the process repeats. This process leads to significant improvements as measured on held-out test puzzles that were also handwritten.

    AI self-play for algorithm design 

    May 2, 2023 | Adam Tauman Kalai and Patrick Haluptzok

    Self-play has helped AI systems succeed in games like chess and Go. Can the same method help improve AI programming abilities? Using easy-to-check, hard-to-solve programming problems, researchers show AI can create, solve, and train on its own puzzles.

  4. Microsoft Research Focus 14 edition, week of April 24, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of April 24, 2023 

    April 26, 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. Yael Tauman Kalai, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, has been awarded the 2022 ACM Prize in…

  5. Leslie Lamport headshot in front of blurred code

    TLA+ Foundation aims to bring math-based software modeling to the mainstream 

    April 24, 2023

    TLA+ is a high level, open-source, math-based language for modeling computer programs and systems–especially concurrent and distributed ones. It comes with tools to help eliminate fundamental design errors, which are hard to find and expensive to fix once they have been embedded in code or hardware. …

  6. SelfTune interaction with Client (Developer Machine) into Data Store (Azure ML Workspace)

    Automatic post-deployment management of cloud applications 

    April 18, 2023

    In the first two blog posts in this series, we presented our vision for Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (AIOps) research, and scenarios where innovations in AI technologies can help build and operate complex cloud platforms and services effectively and efficiently at scale. In this blog post, we…

  7. Microsoft Research Focus 13 edition, week of April 10, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of April 10, 2023 

    April 12, 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. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity at a discount, but with…