In 1999, the Microsoft Research Asia initiated the program named the Fellowship. In the following two decades, the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship went on to discover and support a large number of outstanding PhD students majoring in Computer Science in…
As an adaptive learning rate stochastic optimization method, Adam has been widely used in the field of deep learning since it was first proposed in 2014. In order to improve its training efficiency when applied to large-scale tasks, Adam is…
Abstract With the rapid development of text matching and pre-training models, chatbot systems are now able to yield relevant and fluent responses but sometimes make mistakes in logic because of weak reasoning capabilities. To facilitate the research in this field,…
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Adaptive Biotechnologies transforms data stream into new immune medicine platform with Azure
Founded in 2009, Adaptive Biotechnologies is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on harnessing the inherent biology of the adaptive immune system to transform the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Adaptive was built on the premise that the adaptive immune system…
In the past few decades, the rapid progress of human industries and agriculture, the growth of the population, and harmful gases produced by human activities have caused serious air pollution and are endangering human health. In addition to causing lung diseases…
Real-time RGB-D 3D scanning has become widely used to progressively scan objects or scenes with a hand-held RGB-D camera, such as Microsoft Kinect. The depth stream from the camera is accumulated to a voxel grid that contains surface distance. The…
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Kori Inkpen receives 2020 Lasting impact Award at CSCW
The Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and the decision is made by a committee of…
Novel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks
| Kevin Lin, Xiaowei Hu, and Lijuan Wang
Consider for a moment what it takes to visually identify and describe something to another person. Now imagine that the other person can’t see the object or image, so every detail matters. How do you decide what information is important…
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Microsoft says its AI can describe images ‘as well as people do’
It’s a new milestone for AI that could genuinely help the visually impaired. Describing an image accurately, and not just like a clueless robot, has long been the goal of AI.