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Awards | ICCV 2021
“Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows” receives ICCV 2021 Best Paper Award (Marr Prize)
Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows, received ICCV 2021 Best Paper Award (Marr Prize). The Microsoft Research co-authors include Yue Cao, Baining Guo, Han Hu, Steve Lin.
Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster
| Saurabh Tiwary and Lidong Zhou
Today, we are excited to announce that with our latest Turing universal language representation model (T-ULRv5), a Microsoft-created model is once again the state of the art and at the top of the Google XTREME public leaderboard (opens in new…
Microsoft Researchers Propose a Decentralized System for Anti-Piracy Incentivization Campaigns
Intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets for present-day companies, especially in the software, movie, gaming, and digital publishing industries. Anti-piracy is a long-lasting and heavily invested effort because piracy impacts the fundamental business models of these industries.…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft Translator releases literary Chinese translation
When reading ancient Chinese poetry, we often marvel at the very wonderful words ancient writers could use to describe people, events, objects, and scenes. This is a splendid cultural treasure that has been left behind for us. However, similar to Shakespeare’s verses in the English language,…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation
Tech Minutes: CodeBERT
A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages.
In the news | AI Lab
CoModGAN: AI-Powered Image Completion
CoModGAN is an image completion tool that uses AI to complete an image that is missing significant amounts of visual information. Two neural networks—a generator tasked with filing in missing information and a discriminator that analyzes the realism of the…
Transformer is well acknowledged to be the most powerful neural network in modelling sequential data, such as in natural language and speech. Model variants built upon Transformer have also shown great performance in computer vision and programming language. However, Transformer…
Microsoft appointed Dr. Lidong Zhou, Distinguished Scientist of Microsoft as Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. He is responsible for the lab’s overall research and development activities in both Beijing and Shanghai and will also oversee the lab’s collaborations with academic…
In the news | Microsoft Customers Stories
Pearson empowers language students to learn faster in a natural way with Azure AI capabilities
Pearson helps people around the globe learn foreign languages so that they can advance in academics and careers. When primary school students learn English, they often need more practice and feedback from teachers and parents than they can get. Pearson…