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By the Semantic Machines research team “Easier said than done.” These four words reflect the promise of conversational AI. It takes just seconds to ask When are Megan and I both free? but much longer to find out manually from a calendar. Indeed, almost everything…
In February, we announced DeepSpeed, an open-source deep learning training optimization library, and ZeRO (Zero Redundancy Optimizer), a novel memory optimization technology in the library, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed, cost, and usability. DeepSpeed has enabled researchers to create Turing…
The need to express oneself is innate for every person in the world, and its roots run through art, technology, communication, and the acts of learning and building things from the ground up. It’s no coincidence, then, that a new platform being released by Microsoft…
Over the years at Microsoft Research, we’ve studied how to build AI systems that perceive, understand, and act in a human-filled world in real time. Our motivation has been to create computing systems that can support interactive experiences akin to what we expect when we…
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have been published concerning COVID-19 and…
Since its launch in November 2019, Microsoft HoloLens 2 has helped enterprises in manufacturing, construction, healthcare, and retail onboard employees more quickly, complete tasks faster, and greatly reduce errors and waste. It sets the high-water mark for intelligent edge devices by leveraging a multitude of…
To unearth a diamond in the block-based open world of Minecraft requires the acquisition of materials and the construction of tools before any diamond mining can even begin. Players need to gather wood, which they’ll use to make a wood pickaxe for mining stone underground.…
Getting the sound right is a crucial ingredient in natural user interfaces, immersive gaming, realistic virtual and mixed reality, and ubiquitous computing.
Editor’s note: This post and its research are the collaborative efforts of our team, which includes Andrew Ilyas (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Logan Engstrom (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Aleksander Mądry (opens in new tab) (Professor at MIT), Ashish Kapoor…
With over 50 papers from Microsoft accepted at this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020) (opens in new tab), a number of which were presented in virtual workshops, Microsoft researchers are in full summer swing when it comes to advancing machine learning in…
Reinforcement learning (RL) provides exciting opportunities for game development, as highlighted in our recently announced Project Paidia (opens in new tab)—a research collaboration between our Game Intelligence group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and game developer Ninja Theory. In Project Paidia, we push the state of…
While there has been a focus in the quantum computing industry on growing the number of qubits in a quantum computer, the reality is there are many important factors when building an overall system to bring quantum solutions to fruition. Hardware scaling, temperature control, software…