Synergizing habits and goals with variational Bayes: A new framework for biological and artificial embodied agents
| Dongqi Han
The Bayesian behavior framework synergizes habits and goals through variational Bayesian methods, offering new insights on sensorimotor behavior and comprehension of actions.
MicroCode: Portable programming for the BBC micro:bit
| Eric Anderson, Thomas Ball, Peli de Halleux, James Devine, and Michal Moskal
MicroCode offers an affordable way to program the BBC micro:bit without needing an internet connection, fostering exploratory learning.
Awards | Computing Research Association
Martez Mott receives CRA-WP Skip Ellis Early Career Award
Mott focuses on designing, building, and evaluating novel intelligent interactive technologies that are guided by scientific understandings of people’s experiences with computers and information.
Author: Chang Xu Diffusion probabilistic models have the capacity to generate high-fidelity samples for generative time series forecasting. However, they also present issues of instability due to their stochastic nature. In order to tackle this challenge, researchers from Microsoft Research…
Microsoft at CVPR 2024: Innovations in computer vision and AI research
Microsoft is proud to sponsor the 41st annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), held from June 17 to June 21. This premier conference covers a broad spectrum of topics in the field, including 3D reconstruction and…
Introducing AutoGen Studio: A low-code interface for building multi-agent workflows
| Victor Dibia, Gagan Bansal, Jingya Chen, Suff Syed, Adam Fourney, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Chi Wang, and Saleema Amershi
AutoGen Studio, built on Microsoft’s flexible open-source AutoGen framework for orchestrating AI agents, provides an intuitive user-friendly interface that enables developers to rapidly build, test, customize, and share multi-agent AI solutions—with little or no coding.
编者按：近日，微软研究院上线了面向全球研究界的全新线上系列活动 Microsoft Research Forum，旨在共同探讨人工智能时代的最新研究进展、大胆新颖的想法以及全球研究界关注的重要议题。来自微软研究院全球各地的研究人员将分享他们的研究洞见，并与大家进行在线讨论，希望碰撞出更多新的思想火花。 在最新一期的 Microsoft Research Forum 中，来自微软研究院不同实验室的研...
Ideas: Solving network management puzzles with Behnaz Arzani
| Gretchen Huizinga and Behnaz Arzani
Behnaz Arzani loves hard problems and the freedom to explore. That makes research a great fit! She discusses her work in network management, including the potential role of LLMs in the field; the challenges that excite her; and how storytelling…
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Microsoft’s secret weapon – research leader Peter Lee
Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Research, is a leading force in Microsoft's leap forward in the era of generative AI.