AI-backed virtual assistants face challenges in handling complex data structures. TaskWeaver helps users build assistants that understand diverse domain questions, follow examples, and efficiently execute customizable algorithms on complex data structures.
Editor’s note: All papers referenced here represent collaborations throughout Microsoft and across academia and industry that include authors who contribute to Aether, the Microsoft internal advisory body for AI ethics and effects in engineering and research. A surge of generative AI models in the past…
Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:
Expanded LLM use creates new demands on cloud GPU capacity. Splitwise presents an efficient solution by separating the two essential phases of LLM inference, achieving higher throughput within a limited power budget.
AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.
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.
We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond basic, out-of-the-box prompting, we’ve been…
Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.
We’re proud to have 100+ accepted papers At NeurIPS 2023, plus 18 workshops. Several submissions were chosen as oral presentations and spotlight posters, reflecting groundbreaking concepts, methods, or applications. Here’s an overview of those submissions.
The central problem in materials science is to discover materials with desired properties. MatterGen enables broad property-guided materials design.
Advanced prompting technologies for LLMs can lead to excessively long prompts, causing issues. Learn how LLMLingua compresses prompts up to 20x, maintaining quality, reducing latency, and supporting improved UX.
Explore the latest AI innovations aiming to advance the software development lifecycle. AdaptivePaste adapts and refines pasted code snippets in an IDE. InferFix automates bug detection and repair. Discover how.
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