Using Optimization and LLMs to Enhance Cloud Supply Chain Operations
The cloud computing industry amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars in market size. In this talk, we give an overview of the challenges in sustaining cost-effective operations for Microsoft’s cloud business, ranging from handling…
GenAI for Supply Chain Management: Present and Future
In this seminar we will describe how LLMs are being used at Microsoft to improve supply chain efficiency, by giving planners insights about the state of their supply chains and answering what-if questions. We will…
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.