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Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
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OG-RAG
OG-RAG enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) with domain-specific ontologies for improved factual accuracy and contextually relevant responses in fields with specialized workflows like agriculture, healthcare, knowledge work, and more. Paper: OG-RAG: Ontology-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation For…
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Microsoft Fusion Summit explores how AI can accelerate fusion research
The first Microsoft Research Fusion Summit brought together global experts to explore how AI can help unlock the potential of fusion energy. Discover how collaborations with leading institutions can help speed progress toward clean, scalable…
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Nuclear Fusion – Fireside Discussion
The Microsoft Research Fusion Summit culminated in a thought-provoking panel discussion moderated by Ade Famoti, featuring Archie Manoharan, Richard Buttery, Steven Cowley, and Chris Bishop, Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of Microsoft Research AI for…
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1st Annual Fusion Summit: Research Lightning Talks
At the Microsoft Fusion Summit, lightning talks from Microsoft Research labs addressed the central question of AI’s potential to accelerate fusion research and engineering. Speakers covered a wide range of applications—from using gaming AI for…
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Accelerating the discovery of fusion reactor materials
One persistent challenge in fusion reactor design involves building the interior “first wall,” which must withstand extreme heat and particle bombardment. At the Microsoft Research Fusion Summit, Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum…
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AI as an Accelerator for Fusion
Richard Buttery (opens in new tab), director and VP of the national fusion program at DIII-D, North America’s largest fusion facility, operated by General Atomics and owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE), provides a…
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Advancing Fusion with ML/AI
Dave Humphreys (opens in new tab), director of MFE Operations and Innovation from General Atomics, demonstrated how the US DIII-D National Fusion Facility (opens in new tab) is already applying AI to advance reactor design…
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1st Annual Fusion Summit: Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Distinguished Keynote Lecture
The pursuit of nuclear fusion as a limitless, clean energy source has long been one of humanity’s most ambitious scientific goals. While scalable fusion energy is still years away, researchers are now exploring how AI…
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Claimify: Extracting high-quality claims from language model outputs
Dasha Metropolitansky, Research Data Scientist, Microsoft Research Special Projects, introduces Claimify, a new method for extracting simple, verifiable claims from LLM outputs. Claim extraction is a key step in fact-checking LLM-generated content. Claimify outperforms prior…
