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Machine Learning for fair decisions
New research focuses on the challenges of machine learning biases, and provides a provably and empirically sound method for turning any common classifier into a 'fair' classifier according to any of a wide range of fairness definitions.
Today, we are pleased to announce MSRA Collaborative Research 2019 Call For Proposals. The goal is to invite faculty members or researchers in Asia to propose any Open Collaborative Research topics related to current Microsoft research areas to advance the…
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Microsoft’s TextWorld gives AI a Zork-like challenge
While the rest of the Microsoft world squeaked with excitement about new hardware and free collaboration tools, the boffins at Redmond's Montréal Research Lab have looked to history as way to help Reinforcement Learning (RL) researchers skill up their AI…
New perspectives on contextual bandit
| Sébastien Bubeck
What is the common denominator between the following situations: a doctor choosing among different drugs for a sequence of patients; a website selecting ads for its visitors based on the information it has about them; and a travel agency making…
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Microsoft’s new TextWorld framework generates games to train AI models
TextWorld enables researchers to define how games should play out by providing high-level specifications. It also lets researchers use existing, human-written games to create an even more challenging training environment.
TextWorld: A learning environment for training reinforcement learning agents, inspired by text-based games
| Wendy Tay, Adam Trischler, and Emery Fine
Today, fresh out of the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, comes an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible Python framework for generating text-based games. Reinforcement learning researchers can use TextWorld to train and test AI agents in skills such…
Helping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
| Vani Mandava
Scientific research breakthroughs are often achieved when many different scientists, in different labs and organizations, work together on a single task. That happened at the turn of the 21st century with the Human Genome Project, where human DNA was mapped…
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Helping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
The Big Data Hubs are a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort that supplies cloud computing credits to large scientific projects, including Azure credits donated by Microsoft.