Event
Physics ∩ ML
The goal of Physics ∩ ML is to bring together researchers from machine learning and physics to learn from each other and push research forward together. In this inaugural edition, we will especially highlight some…
Mathematics
Advancing the mathematical foundations that drive breakthroughs across computing, AI, and the sciences.
Video
Deep Policy Gradient Algorithms: A Closer Look
Deep reinforcement learning methods are behind some of the most publicized recent results in machine learning. In spite of these successes, however, deep RL methods face a number of systemic issues: brittleness to small changes…
Tool
SigmaDolphin
Building a computer system to automatically solve math word problems written in natural language. SigmaDolphin is a project initiated in early 2013 at Microsoft Research Asia, with the primary goal of building a computer intelligent…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft SEAL open source homomorphic encryption library gets even better for .NET developers!
Since its open-source release on December 3rd 2018, Microsoft SEAL has become one of the world’s most popular homomorphic encryption libraries and has been adopted by security and privacy professionals world-wide in both academia and…
Publication
Network Design for Controllability Metrics
Microsoft Research Blog
A Deep Learning Theory: Global minima and over-parameterization
One empirical finding in deep learning is that simple methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have a remarkable ability to fit training data. From a capacity perspective, this may not be surprising— modern neural…
