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Building a “heavy metal quartet” of AI compilers
A new quartet of AI compilers: Rammer, Roller, Welder, and Grinder, tackle a range of compiler optimization challenges based on the same tile abstraction, providing a comprehensive solution to connect AI models with hardware accelerators.
Research Focus: Week of August 14, 2023
In this issue: HyWay enables hybrid mingling; Auto-Tables transforms non-relational tables into standard relational forms; training dense retrievers to identify high-quality in-context examples for LLM; improving pronunciation assessment in CAPT.
Research Focus: Week of July 17, 2023
RetroRanker mitigates frequency bias in predictions of retrosynthesis models; new algorithm beats PPO on language tasks; DER dataset aids grid planning; improved PPML balances privacy & accuracy across shared data; ASL Citizen boosts sign language modeling.
Research Focus: Week of July 3, 2023
In this issue: A new study looks at engineers’ views on hybrid work; prompt engineering adds context and specificity to generative AI models; Overwatch learns code edit patterns to aid developers; a Qlib update addresses financial market challenges.
Distributional Graphormer: Toward equilibrium distribution prediction for molecular systems
| Shuxin Zheng, Chang Liu, Yu Shi, Ziheng Lu, Fusong Ju, Jianwei Zhu, Hongxia Hao, Peiran Jin, Frank Noé, Haiguang Liu, and Tie-Yan Liu
Distributional Graphormer, Microsoft’s new deep learning framework for predicting the equilibrium distribution of molecular structures, can generate realistic and diverse molecular structures with high efficiency and low cost.
Microsoft at CVPR 2023: Pushing the boundaries of computer vision
| Baining Guo and Steve Lin
In the vast realm of artificial intelligence, few fields have captivated our imagination and pushed the boundaries of possibility quite like computer vision. At the core of this domain of research and innovation lies the ambition to empower technologies for…
Exploring MSR Asia’s contributions to ICLR 2023: From robust machine learning to responsible AI
ICLR is recognized as one of the most influential international academic conferences in machine learning. At this year’s conference, Microsoft Research Asia presented its latest research contributions in machine learning robustness and responsible AI, among other fields. Check out the…
By Chong Luo, Principal Researcher Dense prediction tasks constitute a fundamental type of computer vision problems, where the goal is to learn a mapping from an input image to a pixel-wise annotated label. Some examples of dense prediction tasks include…
Achieving Zero-COGS with Microsoft Editor Neural Grammar Checker
| Tao Ge, Ting Cao, Si-Qing Chen, and Qiong(Emma) Ning
Microsoft Editor provides AI-powered writing assistance to millions of users around the world. One of its features that writers of all levels and domains rely on is the grammar checker, which detects grammar errors in a user’s writing and offers…