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Abstracts: November 4, 2024
| Gretchen Huizinga, Shan Lu, and Bogdan Stoica
In their 2024 SOSP paper, researchers explore a common—though often undertested—software system issue: retry bugs. Research manager Shan Lu and PhD candidate Bogdan Stoica share how they’re combining traditional program analysis and LLMs to address the challenge.
Microsoft at SOSP 2024: Innovations in systems research
Building resilient systems, scaling deep learning computation, and reproducing failures in production are just some of the ways Microsoft researchers are advancing the state of the art in computer systems research at SOSP 2024.
In the news | Cleo Abram (YouTube)
Why Can’t I Vote Online?
Why can’t I vote online? And what would happen if I could? Over the past two months, I called up a bunch of voting and security experts to try to answer that question. And the answer I found is more…
Intern Insights: Vaishnavi Ranganathan with Angela Busheska
| Vaishnavi Ranganathan and Angela Busheska
Undergrad Angela Busheska has a passion for sustainability. She talks with researcher Vaishnavi Ranganathan about the why behind her drive, the work she did at Microsoft on a platform for tracking land use, and her advice for making the internship…
Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024
Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads.
Abstracts: September 30, 2024
| Amber Tingle, Daniela Massiceti, and Martin Grayson
The personalizable object recognizer Find My Things was recently recognized for accessible design. Researcher Daniela Massiceti and software development engineer Martin Grayson talk about the research project’s origins and the tech advances making it possible.
Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4: The future of multimodal models, a new “small” language model, and other AI updates
Explore multimodal & small language models, plus advanced benchmarks for AI evaluation. Microsoft researchers are working on breakthroughs in weather prediction, materials design, even a new kind of computer for AI inference and hard optimization problems.
Research Focus: Week of September 23, 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. Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict future values based on previously…
Research Focus: Week of September 9, 2024
Investigating vulnerabilities in LLMs; A novel total-duration-aware (TDA) duration model for text-to-speech (TTS); Generative expert metric system through iterative prompt priming; Integrity protection in 5G fronthaul networks: