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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

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RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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Principal Applied Scientist – Microsoft 365 Copilot

Posted: April 15, 2026

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Search and information retrieval

We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to help shape the future of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Our team powers the retrieval engine behind M365 Copilot Chat, Search and Agents. This role is a high…

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DUET: Joint Exploration of User Item Profiles in Recommendation System

Yue Chen, Yifei Sun, Lu Wang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Minjie Hong, Yi Dong, Minghua He, Nan Hu, Jianjin Zhang, Zhiwei Dai, Yuefeng Zhan, Weihao Han, Hao Sun, Qingwei Lin, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang

April 2026

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Strengthening the CHIIR community: Bridging interactive IR and HCI at CHI 2026

Haiming Liu, Rob Capra, Paul Thomas, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Morgan A Harvey, Rosie Jones, Chang Liu, Udo Kruschwitz, Stephann Makri, Laurianne Sitbon, Adam Roegiest, Johanne R Trippas

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2026

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From Searchable to Non-Searchable: Generative AI and Information Diversity in Online Information Seeking

Yulin Yu, Yizhou Li, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts

April 2026

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Drift-Aware Continual Tokenization for Generative Recommendation

Yu-Hao Feng, Jiahao Liu, Mingzhe Han, Dongsheng Li, H. Gu, Peng Zhang, Tun Lu, Ning Gu

March 2026

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Senior Applied Scientist – Computational Advertising team

Posted: March 27, 2026

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Human language technologies, Search and information retrieval

We are the computational advertising team in the AI & Research organization at Microsoft. We are looking for candidates with research and applied experience in machine learning related areas.  Search advertising is a $100 billion…

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Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search

Siddharth Barman, Nirjhar Das, Shivam Gupta, Kirankumar Shiragur

ICLR 2026 | February 2026

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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights

January 19, 2026

Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.

Microsoft Research India 2025 Key Highlights

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Fine-tuning Small Language Models as Efficient Enterprise Search Relevance Labelers

Yue Kang, Zhuoyi Huang, Benji Schussheim, Diana Licon, Dina Atia, Shixing Cao, Jacob Danovitch, Kunho Kim, Billy Norcilien, Jonah Karpman, Mahmound Sayed, Mike Taylor, Tao Sun, Pavel Metrikov, Vipul Agarwal, Chris Quirk, Ye-Yi Wang, Nick Craswell, Irene Shaffer, Tianwei Chen, Sulaiman Vesal, Soundar Srinivasan

ArXiv | January 2026, Vol abs/2601.03211

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Scalable Distributed Vector Search via Accuracy Preserving Index Construction

Yuming Xu, Qianxi Zhang, Qi Chen, Baotong Lu, Menghao Li, Philip Adams, Mingqin Li, Zengzhong Li, Jing Liu, Cheng Li, Fan Yang

December 2025