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In the news | WIRED
FOSSA Systems Explores Satellite IoT with Microsoft Research
Learning from interaction with Microsoft Copilot (web)
| Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, and Longqi Yang
Microsoft researchers are taking a comprehensive and dynamic approach to help Copilot (web) continuously learn from interaction and feedback, improving the AI system and making it increasingly useful for consumers. Learn more.
Research Focus: Week of March 18, 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 impressive capabilities, yet they still struggle with…
Introducing Garnet – an open-source, next-generation, faster cache-store for accelerating applications and services
| Badrish Chandramouli
Garnet is a cache-store system that addresses growing demand for data storage to support interactive web applications and services. Offering several advantages over legacy cache-stores, Garnet is now available as an open-source download.
Research Forum Episode 2: Transforming health care and the natural sciences, AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies
Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever. Episode 2 of Microsoft Research Forum explores how AI is transforming health care and the natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies.
Research Focus: Week of March 4, 2024
In this issue: Generative kaleidoscopic networks; Text diffusion with reinforced conditioning; PRISE – Learning temporal action abstractions as a sequence compression problem.
Awards | ACM SIGCHI
Ryen White selected for ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2024
White is recognized for his significant and sustained contributions to human-computer interaction. He and his many collaborators have advanced our understanding of people’s interactions with information and developed innovative solutions that have improved search systems and helped address societal challenges.
Research Focus: Week of February 19, 2024
In this issue: CaaSPER: vertical autoscaling algorithm dynamically maintains optimal CPU utilization; Improved scene landmark detection for camera localization runs faster, uses less storage; ESUS simplifies usability questionnaires for technical products and services.
In the news | TheSequence
Don’t Overlook China’s Open Source LLMs
AI Controller Interface | Microsoft Research released a prototype of AI Controller Interface (AICI), a framework to implement controllers that constraint the outputs of LLMs. AICI’s architecture allows the implementation of custom logic blocks the during the token decoding process…