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Abstracts: May 6, 2024
| Michel Galley and Gretchen Huizinga
Researcher Michel Galley explores how he and fellow researchers combined new and existing data to create MathVista, an open-source benchmark for measuring the mathematical reasoning capabilities of foundation models in scenarios that involve text and images.
Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024
In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performance disparities on blind/low vision data; plus recent news.
SAMMO: A general-purpose framework for prompt optimization
| Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville
SAMMO optimizes prompts for LLMs by leveraging their structure to guide optimization. This minimizes the time and effort needed to find performant prompts on a variety of tasks.
Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024
In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:
Microsoft at NSDI 2024: Discoveries and implementations in networked systems
| Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft at NDSI 2024: Discoveries and implementations in networked systems Topics range from 5G, space, datacenters, and wide-area networking to applications in artificial intelligence, security, video conferencing, and gaming. Learn more about the discoveries and advances we’re making with networked…
Abstracts: April 16, 2024
| Gretchen Huizinga and Tusher Chakraborty
Tusher Chakraborty talks about the paper “Spectrumize: Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things,” including a method for supporting communication between a large IoT-satellite constellation and devices on Earth within a limited spectrum.
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FOSSA Systems Explores Satellite IoT with Microsoft Research
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FOSSA Systems explores satIoT with Microsoft Research
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.