
Microsoft Research Forum
Location: Virtual
Microsoft Research Forum is a virtual series highlighting purposeful research and its real-world impact, from fundamental exploration to advancing AI responsibly, scaling innovation through products and open source, and driving positive change for society.
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Aired March 3, 2026
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Magentic Marketplace: Testing societies of agents at scale
Gagan Bansal
Principal Researcher
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Agent Lightning: One learning system that makes all agents evolve
Luna Qiu
Senior Technical Program Manager
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Teaching small language models to think like optimization experts with OptiMind
Xinzhi Zhang
Research Intern
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Lessons from deploying HealthBots with experts-in-the-loop
Mohit Jain
Principal Researcher
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ARO: A new lens on matrix optimization for LLMs
Chao Ma
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Dion2: A new simple method to shrink matrix in Muon
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