Skeleton-of-Thought: Parallel decoding speeds up and improves LLM output
| Xuefei Ning and Zinan Lin
This research was accepted by the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations. Large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and OpenAI’s GPT-4 are revolutionizing technology. However, one of the common complaints about LLMs is their speed, or lack thereof. In…
What’s Your Story: Desney Tan
| Johannes Gehrke and Desney Tan
From service in the Singapore Armed Forces to autonomous navigation with NASA & VR with Disney, Desney Tan’s life journey hasn’t been linear. Learn how Tan landed at Microsoft & about the purpose guiding his work in the podcast series…
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Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook
Given the urgency of the planetary crisis, society needs to push harder on the AI accelerator while establishing guardrails that steer the world safely, securely, and equitably toward net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and a nature-positive future. This year the world…
编者按：欢迎阅读“科研上新”栏目！“科研上新”汇聚了微软亚洲研究院最新的创新成果与科研动态。在这里，你可以快速浏览研究院的亮点资讯，保持对前沿领域的敏锐嗅觉，同时也能找到先进实用的开源工具。 本期内容速览 01. CLaMP: 面向音乐信息检索的语言-音乐对比预训练02. LUT-NN: 通过查找表实现的高效神经网络推理03. Large Search Model: 在大模型时代重定义搜索框架 论...
In the news | The Verge
Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?
Applying the advancing tech to how we grow and cultivate our food has some big upsides — but is it worth the cost? What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to start a company together? They…
In the news | TheSequence
Edge 342: Who’s Happy Potter? Inside One of the Most Fascinating Papers Published This Year
In one of the most fascinating papers of this year, Microsoft Research explores an unlearning technique for LLMs. The challenge was nothing less than making Llama-7B to forget any knowledge of Harry Potter.
Research Focus: Week of November 8, 2023
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. Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is essential for creating…
周礼栋对话比尔·盖茨：深入的科学研究比以往任何时候都更加重要
编者按：2023年是微软亚洲研究院建院25周年。25年来，微软亚洲研究院探索并实践了一种独特且有效的企业研究院的创新模式，并以此为基础产出了诸多对微软公司和全球社会都具有积极影响的创新成果。借此机会，我们特别策划了“智汇对话”系列内容，邀请全球各领域顶尖专家学者，与微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋博士共同畅谈研究文化，探讨跨学科创新，展望技术未来。 2023年6月，微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨来到微软亚洲研究...