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Segmentation using large language models: A new typology of American neighborhoods

Alex D. Singleton, Seth Spielman

EPJ Data Science | April 2024, Vol 13: pp. 1-21

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024

April 17, 2024 | Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Esha Choukse, Chaojie Zhang, Íñigo Goiri, Brijesh Warrier, Ricardo Bianchini, Qianhui Wu, Huiqiang Jiang, Molly Xia, Xufang Luo, Jue Zhang, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Victor Ruehle, Yuqing Yang, Chin-Yew Lin, Lili Qiu, Dongmei Zhang, Millicent Ochieng, Lev Tankelevitch, Kori Inkpen, John Tang, Sasa Junuzovic, Qianqian Qi, Pat Sweeney, Andy Wilson, Bill Buxton, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Mark Hamilton, Payod Panda

In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:

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Avatars in mixed reality meetings: A field study of avatar facial realism on felt and perceived emotion

Georgiana Cristina Dobre, Marta Wilczkowiak, Marco Gillies, Sylvia Xueni Pan, Sean Rintel

EMRN 2024: A Metaverse For Good | April 2024

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Meeting effectiveness and inclusiveness: large-scale measurement, identification of key features, and prediction in real-world remote meetings

Yasaman Hosseinkashi, Lev Tankelevitch, Jamie Pool, Ross Cutler, Chinmaya Madan

CSCW 2024 | April 2024

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A Framework for Exploring the Consequences of AI-Mediated Enterprise Knowledge Access and Identifying Risks to Workers

Anna Gausen, Bhaskar Mitra, Siân Lindley

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | March 2024

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Learning from interaction with Microsoft Copilot (web)

March 27, 2024 | Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang

Microsoft researchers are taking a comprehensive and dynamic approach to help Copilot (web) continuously learn from interaction and feedback, improving the AI system and making it increasingly useful for consumers. Learn more.

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The Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks

Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang

March 2024

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Ecological Validity and the Evaluation of Avatar Facial Animation Noise

Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER), Ken Jakubzak, James Clemoes, Cornelia Treptow, Kerry Read, Michaela Porubanova, Daniel McDuff, Marina Kuznetsova, Sean Rintel, Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Workshop Series on Animation in Virtual and Augmented Environments (ANIVAE 2024) | March 2024

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Augmenting Human Cognition and Decision Making with AI

January 30, 2024 | Jake Hofman

Presented by Jake Hofman at Microsoft Research Forum, Season 1, Episode 1 Jake Hofman, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research NYC discusses recent research in building and evaluating AI tools for helping people make better…

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A structured regression approach for evaluating model performance across intersectional subgroups

Christine Herlihy, Kimberly Truong, Alex Chouldechova, Miro Dudík

FAccT 2024 | January 2024