Getting into a conversational groove: New approach encourages risk-taking in data-driven neural modeling
Microsoft Research’s Natural Language Processing group has set an ambitious goal for itself: to create a neural model that can engage in the full scope of conversational capabilities, providing answers to requests while also bringing the value of additional information…
The Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source
| Kristin Lauter, Kim Laine, and Sreekanth Kannepalli
Today we are extremely excited to announce that our Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), an easy-to-use homomorphic encryption library developed by researchers in the Cryptography Research group at Microsoft, is open source on GitHub under an MIT License…
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In the news | Decipher
Microsoft open sources SEAL homomorphic encryption library
The library is designed specifically with cloud computing use cases in mind, giving customers a way to interact with encrypted data stored on cloud services without downloading and decrypting it, or having to give the encryption key to the cloud…
In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft SEAL Arrives as Simple and Efficient Homomorphic Encryption Solution
Microsoft Research has announced a new homomorphic encryption library that balances privacy and convenience. Called Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), the service is described as easy-to-use by the research team.
In the news | Intel AI
HE-Transformer for nGraph: Enabling Deep Learning on Encrypted Data
We are pleased to announce the open source release of HE-Transformer, a homomorphic encryption (HE) backend to nGraph, Intel's neural network compiler. HE allows computation on encrypted data. This capability, when applied to machine learning, allows data owners to gain…
Awards | Bloomberg
E. Glen Weyl recognized as a Bloomberg 50 2018
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and founder of the non-profit RadicalXchange Foundation (opens in new tab). Glen was recognized with Eric Posner as a Bloomberg 50 2018 (opens in new tab) for their unique ideas…
ReDial: Recommendation dialogs for bridging the gap between chit-chat and goal-oriented chatbots
Chatbots come in many flavors, but most can be placed in one of two categories: goal-oriented chatbots and chit-chat chatbots. Goal-oriented chatbots behave like a natural language interface for function calls, where the chatbot asks for and confirms all required…
Discovering the best neural architectures in the continuous space
| Fei Tian
If you’re a deep learning practitioner, you may find yourself faced with the same critical question on a regular basis: Which neural network architecture should I choose for my current task? The decision depends on a variety of factors and…