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Dion: The distributed orthonormal update revolution is here
Kwangjun Ahn, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, introduces Dion, a next-generation optimizer in the style of Muon that orthonormalizes only the top-r subspace via amortized power iteration. Dion retains Muon’s fast convergence while…
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Pushing boundaries of complex reasoning in small language models
Mojan Javaheripi, Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, presents Phi-4-Reasoning and Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus—two 14B models designed to advance complex reasoning in small-scale language models. By introducing a dedicated “thinking block” and applying supervised…
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More is Less: Extra Features in Contactless Payments Break Security
The EMV contactless payment system has many independent parties: payment providers, terminal companies, smartphone companies, banks and regulators. EMVCo publishes a 15 book specification that these companies use to operate together. However, many of these…
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Using AI to assist in rare disease diagnosis
New research from Microsoft, Drexel, and the Broad explores how generative AI could support genetic professionals in rare disease diagnosis.
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