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Research Focus: Week of December 2, 2024
Can a new SOS-RMT protocol enable more efficient CL-MPC?; A fair-by-design, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform; LLM2CLIP unlocks richer visual representation; New technique enhances Low-Rank Adaptation’s expressiveness, generalization capabilities.
Microsoft Research Forum Episode 3: Globally inclusive and equitable AI, new use cases for AI, and more
“We’re at the very early stage of generative AI and the impacts it will have on work. This is a fast-moving field, and there’s an immense opportunity to take control of the agenda and build truly globally equitable AI systems”,…
Podcast: Evaluating LLMs using novel approaches. With Dr. Sunayana Sitaram
Episode 015 | May 21, 2024 [Music] Sunayana Sitaram: Our ultimate goal is to build evaluation systems and also other kinds of systems in general where humans and LLMs can work together. We’re really trying to get humans to do…
Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to…
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
| Kalika Bali and Gretchen Huizinga
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource…
Research Focus: Week of April 1, 2024
In this issue: New research helps COMET embrace African languages; FeatUp improves deep features, a computer vision research cornerstone; LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error; Benchmarking LLMs across languages and more.
Microsoft Research Forum: New series explores bold ideas in technology research in the era of AI
Microsoft Research Forum (opens in new tab) is a new series of conversations that explore recent advances, bold new ideas, and important discussions within the global research community. Leading Microsoft researchers will share insights into their work, followed by live…
Research Focus: Week of December 4, 2023
Research Focus: Using LLMs in a Rust-based formal verification framework; Rethinking network measurements with user feedback; 3D telemedicine using HoloportationTM communication technology could enhance overseas surgical visits.
PwR: Using representations for AI-powered software development
| Sameer Segal and Akash Lal
PwR uses domain-specific languages to bridge communication between developers and AI tools. Learn how it can help simplify code creation and enhance software reliability and customization, no matter your coding expertise.