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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

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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Microsoft Research India – The evolution

September 30, 2025 | Venkat Padmanabhan, P. Anandan, Rick Rashid, Peter Lee, Doug Burger, Sriram Rajamani

Learn about Microsoft Research India’s journey from its inception to becoming a leading research center in computer science in India.

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Principal Applied Science Manager – Follow-on Suggestions team

Posted: September 27, 2025

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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

The Follow-on Suggestions team is recruiting a Principal Applied Science Manager to lead the development of impactful projects focused on enhancing follow-on suggestion experiences through recommendation systems, generative AI, and natural language processing. This position…

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Cognitive Loop via In-Situ Optimization: Self-Adaptive Reasoning for Science

Newman Cheng, Gordon Broadbent, William Chappell

August 2025

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DistributedANN: Efficient Scaling of a Single DiskANN Graph Across Thousands of Computers

Philip Adams, Menghao Li, Shi Zhang, Li Tan, Mingqin Li, Qi Chen, Knut Magne Risvik, Jason (Zengzhong) Li, Harsha Simhadri

The 1st Workshop on Vector Databases at the 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning | July 2025

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System comparison using automated generation of relevance judgements in multiple languages

Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield

2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2025

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MOGIC: Metadata-Infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification

Suchith Chidananda Prabhu, Bhavyajeet Singh, Anshul Mittal, Siddarth Asokan, Shikhar Mohan, Deepak Saini, Yashoteja Prabhu, Lakshya Kumar, Jian Jiao, Amit Singh, Niket Tandon, Manish Gupta, Sumeet Agarwal, Manik Varma

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Graph-Based Algorithms for Diverse Similarity Search

Piyush Anand, Piotr Indyk, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Sepideh Mahabadi, Vikas C. Raykar, Kiran Shiragur, Haike Xu

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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Demographically-inspired query variants using an LLM

Marwah Alaofi, Nicola Ferro, Paul Thomas, Falk Scholer, Mark Sanderson

International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025

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Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR should share with AI

Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Chirag Shah, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen P de Vries, Guido Zuccon

International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) | July 2025

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Principal Applied Scientist – Azure AI Knowledge team

Posted: June 13, 2025

Location: Redmond, WA, US; Remote (within US)

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

A major aspect of this role is to push our development of knowledge retrieval to the frontier. This requires a capable individual who is well versed in both deep learning and LLM techniques – someone who can solve the hardest challenges where the latest reasoning…

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