Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
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ARO: A new lens on matrix optimization for LLMs
We present Adaptively Rotated Optimization (ARO), a matrix optimizer that speeds up LLM training by applying updates in a rotated, geometry-aware coordinate system. Guided by new insights on global structures on LLM loss landscapes, ARO…
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Lessons from deploying HealthBots with experts-in-the-loop
The Tyger framework enables faster, more accessible medical imaging by streaming raw data to the cloud for accelerated reconstruction—reducing patient wait times and discomfort—while empowering researchers to rapidly test and deploy new algorithms.
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Teaching small language models to think like optimization experts with OptiMind
OptiMind is a specialized language model that translates natural-language problem descriptions directly into solver-ready mathematical optimization formulations. This removes one of the most expertise-intensive bottlenecks in optimization workflows and makes advanced optimization more accessible.
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Agent Lightning: One learning system that makes all agents evolve
Agent Lightning is an agent optimization framework that enables agents to learn from their experiences through reinforcement learning and other methods. By treating agents as first-class citizens, optimization becomes automatic for any agent with minimal…
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Magentic Marketplace: Testing societies of agents at scale
As AI agents move from isolated tools to active participants in multi-agent ecosystems, their success depends on more than task competence—it requires strategic behavior under misaligned incentives and imperfect information. Using Magentic Marketplace, an open-source…
Podcast
Trailer: The Shape of Things to Come
Microsoft research lead Doug Burger introduces his new podcast series, “The Shape of Things to Come”, an exploration into the fundamental truths about AI and how the technology will reshape the future.
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Beyond Swahili: Designing Inclusive AI for Bantu Languages
Swahili has become one of the most consistently represented African languages in modern AI benchmarks, spanning machine translation, language modeling, and multilingual evaluation suites, far exceeding the coverage of any other Bantu language. This prominence…