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In the news | IEEE Spectrum
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier—and nearly as accurate. Large language models, the AI systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT, are getting better and better—but they’re also getting bigger and bigger, demanding more energy and computational power. For LLMs that…
“If life is a marathon, then health is the key to its duration.” Health is not only the foundation of happiness and societal progress but also a pivotal aspect of the intelligent era. AI’s integration into healthcare represents a transformative…
Deciding between fundamental and applied research is a dilemma that confronts many in the scientific community. Dongqi Han, on the cusp of graduation, ambitiously aspired to bridge this divide by pursuing both avenues of research in his future endeavors. After…
In the news | Business Wire
PKSHA harnesses RetNet to develop the first Japanese-English LLM
PKSHA Technology Inc. has developed one of the first Japanese-English Large Language Models (LLM) using Retentive Network (RetNet) in collaboration with Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. Through this LLM development, PKSHA will further enhance the practicality of generative AI in the…
In the news | PIM-DL: Expanding the Applicability of Commodity DRAM-PIMs for Deep Learning via Algorithm-System Co-Optimization
Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications
PIM-DL is the first deep learning framework specifically designed for off-the-shelf processing-in-memory (PIM) systems, capable of offloading most computations in neural networks. Its goal is to surmount the computational limitations of PIM hardware by replacing traditional compute-heavy matrix multiplication operations…
In the news | Microsoft Stories Asia
Microsoft to invest US$2.9 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Japan while boosting the nation’s skills, research and cybersecurity
In the Accelerator team of Microsoft Research Asia, women from diverse countries, with diverse academic backgrounds and life experiences, are weaving bridges for interdisciplinary research in their own distinctive ways. These remarkable women embrace unconventional workplace philosophies and life approaches.…
“Before I became an intern at Microsoft Research Asia (MSR Asia), my knowledge of the institute was a paper on ResNet (Residual Network),” said Changho Hwang. “In the paper, researchers at MSR Asia introduced the idea of ‘residual learning’ and…