Awards | ICDM 2021
Wei Chen is awarded Highest Impact Paper Award at ICDM’2021
Wei Chen was awarded the 2021 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award for his paper, IRIE: Scalable and Robust Influence Maximization in Social Networks - Microsoft Research.
This year six papers were chosen as recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award. The committee selected these papers due to their excellent clarity, insight, creativity, and potential for lasting impact. Additional details about the paper selection process are provided below.…
Unlocking new dimensions in image-generation research with Manifold Matching via Metric Learning
| Mengyu Dai and Junwon Park
Generative image models offer a unique value by creating new images. Such images can be sharp super-resolution versions of existing images or even realistic-looking synthetic photographs. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their variants have demonstrated pioneering success with the framework…
In the news | MarTechPost
Microsoft Research Introduces ‘Tutel’: A High-Performance MoE Library To Facilitate The Development Of Large-Scale DNN (Deep Neural Network) Models
Tutel is a high-performance MoE library developed by Microsoft researchers to aid in the development of large-scale DNN (Deep Neural Network) models; Tutel is highly optimized for the new Azure NDm A100 v4 series, and Tutel’s diverse and flexible MoE algorithmic…
Awards | IEEE
Xing Xie elevated to IEEE Fellow
Dr. Xing Xie was elevated to IEEE Fellow 2022 for his contributions to spatial data mining and recommendation systems. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest…
Tutel: An efficient mixture-of-experts implementation for large DNN model training
| Wei Cui, Yifan Xiong, Peng Cheng, and Rafael Salas
Mixture of experts (MoE) is a deep learning model architecture in which computational cost is sublinear to the number of parameters, making scaling easier. Nowadays, MoE is the only approach demonstrated to scale deep learning models to trillion-plus parameters, paving…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Multilingual translation at scale: 10000 language pairs and beyond
Microsoft is on a quest for AI at Scale with high ambition to enable the next generation of AI experiences. The Microsoft Translator ZCode team is working together with Microsoft Project Turing and Microsoft Research Asia to advance language and…
In the news | Microsoft Worklab
The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
If the pandemic has revealed anything about work life, it’s that work and life are melded like never before: morning staff meetings streamed from the breakfast table; in-person presentations before school pickup; and evenings of quiet concentration whenever the opportunity…
第一篇发表论文就斩获马尔奖！微软亚洲研究院实习生的科研经验分享
在计算机视觉领域顶级会议 ICCV 2021 中，来自微软亚洲研究院的论文 “Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows” 荣获最佳论文奖（马尔奖，Marr Prize）。马尔奖每两年评选一次，被看作是计算机视觉研究方面的最高荣誉之一。 在这项研究工作中，来自微软亚洲研究院的三位实习生——联合培养博...