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.
Research Focus: Using LLMs in a Rust-based formal verification framework; Rethinking network measurements with user feedback; 3D telemedicine using HoloportationTM communication technology could enhance overseas surgical visits.
Many patients in low- and middle-income countries rely on facilitated online health communities for information and support. Discover how large language models can assist the facilitators and boost outcomes.
ASL Citizen is the first crowdsourced sign language dataset, advancing the state of the art in sign recognition. The web-based project captured input from people in real-world settings, and from a diverse group of experts, including Deaf team members.
PwR uses domain-specific languages to bridge communication between developers and AI tools. Learn how it can help simplify code creation and enhance software reliability and customization, no matter your coding expertise.
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