Adversarial robustness as a prior for better transfer learning
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Editor’s note: This post and its research are the collaborative efforts of our team, which includes Andrew Ilyas (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Logan Engstrom (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Aleksander Mądry (opens in new tab)…
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How technology is reshaping the way we farm
The oldest industry in the world is merging with the modern world as technology is helping farmers and making farms more sustainable. Farming has always been a part of Ranveer Chandra's life. When he was a kid, memories were made…
There I was, in the fall of 2015—just one week back at Microsoft after having left the company for a few years. I stared at my computer and struggled to understand how my new team, soon to be named PROSE,…
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Making repeated edits easier with IntelliCode suggestions
What if your developer tools could track your edits and learn while you are making changes? What if they could offer to do remaining edits for you? Your repeated edit experience is now enhanced by IntelliCode suggestions in Visual Studio…
When decision-makers are looking at how a product is performing, they often turn to scorecards to measure performance. Unfortunately, these reporting tools are not always accurate. By following these simple tips, you can begin to report data that is more…
ICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more
With over 50 papers from Microsoft accepted at this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020) (opens in new tab), a number of which were presented in virtual workshops, Microsoft researchers are in full summer swing when it comes…
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Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model
In a paper (opens in new tab) published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft researchers propose an AI technique they call domain-specific language model pretraining (opens in new tab) for biomedical natural language processing (NLP) (opens in new tab). By compiling a “comprehensive” biomedical (NLP)…
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Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft researchers propose an AI technique they call domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing (NLP). By compiling a “comprehensive” biomedical (NLP) benchmark from publicly available data sets, the…
Podcast: Can we make better software by using ML and AI techniques? With Chandra Maddila and Chetan Bansal
The process of software development is dramatically different today compared to even a few years ago. The shift to cloud computing has meant that companies need to develop and deploy software in ever shrinking timeframes while maintaining high quality of…