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| Xinzhi Zhang, Zeyi Chen, Humishka Hope, Hugo Barbalho, Konstantina Mellou, Marco Molinaro, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, Ishai Menache, and Sirui Li

OptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve. It reduces formulation time & errors & enables fast, privacy-preserving local use.

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| Konstantina Mellou, Marco Molinaro, and Rudy Zhou

Efficiency is vital in the face of escalating demand for cloud resources. And efficient power management strategies address the bottleneck of power availability in datacenters. Learn how we optimize power allocation to support sustainable resource usage.

Microsoft Research Focus 13 edition, week of April 10, 2023
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Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…