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Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024 

August 28, 2024
Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3;  WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.

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    Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024 

    August 28, 2024

    Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3;  WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.

  2. Research Focus: August 5, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of August 12, 2024 

    August 14, 2024

    In this issue: Research Forum Ep. 4 explores multimodal AI. Registration is now open; Surveying developers’ AI needs; SuperBench improves cloud AI infrastructure reliability; Virtual Voices: Exploring factors influencing participation in virtual meetings.

  3. Research Focus: July 22, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024 

    July 31, 2024

    In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.

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    Tracing the path to self-adapting AI agents 

    July 25, 2024 | Ching-An Cheng, Adith Swaminathan, and Allen Nie

    Introducing Trace, Microsoft and Stanford University's novel AI optimization framework, now available as a Python library. Trace adapts dynamically and optimizes a wide range of applications from language models to robot control.

  5. Research Focus: July 15, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of July 15, 2024 

    July 17, 2024

    Advancing time series analysis with multi-granularity guided diffusion model; An algorithm-system co-design for fast, scalable MoE inference; What makes a search metric successful in large-scale settings; learning to solve PDEs without simulated data.

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