Security, privacy, and cryptography
Publication
Credential Transparency System
Video
Lightning talks: The identity revolution: Centering trust on people
Today, our online identities are composed of disjointed and siloed relationships with various governments and commercial and social providers. The internet is missing a suitable layer to represent and manage the complexities of real-life identity…
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Panel discussion: From privacy research to policy, regulations and standards
In this panel, we explore with three panelists how research in privacy technology can inform, impact, and drive privacy policy, regulation, and privacy-related standards, and conversely how emerging policy trends can give rise to interesting…
Video
Research talk: Differentially private fine-tuning of large language models
We have come a long way in terms of protecting privacy when training ML models, particularly with large language models. We recently demonstrated that using differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) to fine-tune very large…
Video
Lightning talks: Responsible AI: The challenge of big models
The scale of AI models is continuously increasing. These big models bring new challenges to responsible AI areas such as privacy protection, model interpretability, ethical natural language generation, and evaluation of application maturity. In this…
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Research talks: An investigation into user expectations for differential privacy
Differential privacy is widely regarded as a gold standard for privacy-preserving computation over users’ data. A key challenge with differential privacy is that its mathematical sophistication can be difficult to communicate to users, leaving them…
Group
Plural Technology Collaboratory
The Plural Technology Collaboratory is a Microsoft Research Special Project dedicated to advancing Plural Technologies (PTs), ones that support diverse communities and empower collaboration across them. The PTC is motivated by the rapid recent advances in…
Event
Research Summit 2022
Microsoft Research Summit 2022, held October 18-20, 2022, explores what’s next for technology and humanity.
