ExACT: Improving AI agents’ decision-making via test-time compute scaling
| Baolin Peng, Xiao Yu, Hao Cheng, Michel Galley, Zhou Yu, and Jianfeng Gao
ExACT combines Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning to improve AI agents' decision-making, enabling test-time compute scaling. Learn how these methods help agents refine strategies for state-of-the-art performance and improved computational efficiency.
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HeritageWatch.ai
Microsoft and our partners are launching HeritageWatch.AI, a nonprofit that will use AI to protect cultural heritage sites across the globe and help us preserve humanity’s past for future generations.
Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
| Chris Stetkiewicz and Akshay Nambi
Advances in AI are driving meaningful real-world impact. Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi shares how his passion for tackling real-world challenges across various domains fuels his work in building reliable and robust AI systems.
In the news | Harvard Business School
America’s Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind
With rural areas significantly lagging behind cities in computer use, research by Raffaella Sadun, Shane Greenstein, and colleagues finds that many Americans lack the digital literacy that's increasingly needed in an AI world.
MobiCom is one of the premier international academic conferences in the field of mobile computing and wireless networks. In this article, we select several papers from Microsoft Research Asia that were accepted at MobiCom 2024. These papers explore a diverse range…
Advances to low-bit quantization enable LLMs on edge devices
| Shijie Cao, Lingxiao Ma, and Ting Cao
Advances in low-bit quantization techniques enable efficient operation of LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices. Discover how innovations like T-MAC, Ladder, and LUT Tensor Core improve computational efficiency and enhance hardware compatibility.
In the news | Enhancing Teams video quality with Super Resolution
Enhancing Teams video quality with Super Resolution
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
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