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As one of the world’s top AI conference, CVPR has been leading the academic and industrial trend in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition technology. Here, 12 papers from Microsoft Research Asia accepted by CVPR 2021 have been…
Recently, the industry has witnessed the growth of highly advanced and powerful AI language models. When the industry marvels at its variety of skills, like drawing, writing, and game-playing, it also worries for its IQ. For example, if you try…
By Xu Tan , Senior Researcher Neural network based text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in recent years. Previous neural TTS models (e.g., Tacotron 2) first generate mel-spectrograms autoregressively from text and then synthesize speech from the generated mel-spectrograms using a…
The science behind semantic search: How AI from Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search
| Rangan Majumder, Alec Berntson, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Jianfeng Gao, Furu Wei, and Nan Duan
Azure Cognitive Search (opens in new tab) is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. It has multiple components, including an API for indexing and querying, seamless integration through Azure data ingestion, deep…
AAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence
The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) (opens…
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Microsoft Research Asia partners with universities in Asia to build OpenNetLab, empowering AI-assisted networking research
Microsoft Research Asia announced the establishment of OpenNetLab, an open networking community and platform in collaboration with multiple universities in Asia, including academia from China, Korea and Singapore.
Background With the rapid growth of cloud-based services, efficient, flexible access to heterogeneous resources in data centers at large scale is becoming increasingly important. Improved abstracted general access primitives, support for global naming spaces, and efficient routing mechanisms are needed…
MPNet combines strengths of masked and permuted language modeling for language understanding
| Xu Tan
Pretrained language models have been a hot research topic in natural language processing. These models, such as BERT, are usually pretrained on large-scale language corpora with carefully designed pretraining objectives and then fine-tuned on downstream tasks to boost the accuracy.…
This year, the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award attracted 106 distinguished Ph.D. candidates from 36 leading research universities or institutions around the Asia Pacific Region to apply. As a result, only 12 extremely outstanding students have been awarded fellowships. This…