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Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?
Applying the advancing tech to how we grow and cultivate our food has some big upsides — but is it worth the cost? What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to start a company together? They…
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Edge 342: Who’s Happy Potter? Inside One of the Most Fascinating Papers Published This Year
In one of the most fascinating papers of this year, Microsoft Research explores an unlearning technique for LLMs. The challenge was nothing less than making Llama-7B to forget any knowledge of Harry Potter.
Research Focus: Week of November 8, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is essential for creating…
周礼栋对话比尔·盖茨：深入的科学研究比以往任何时候都更加重要
编者按：2023年是微软亚洲研究院建院25周年。25年来，微软亚洲研究院探索并实践了一种独特且有效的企业研究院的创新模式，并以此为基础产出了诸多对微软公司和全球社会都具有积极影响的创新成果。借此机会，我们特别策划了“智汇对话”系列内容，邀请全球各领域顶尖专家学者，与微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋博士共同畅谈研究文化，探讨跨学科创新，展望技术未来。 2023年6月，微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨来到微软亚洲研究...
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Toward developing faster algorithms for minimizing submodular functions
| Haotian Jiang
This research paper was presented at the 64th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2023 (opens in new tab), a premier forum for the latest research in theoretical computer science. Submodular functions are versatile mathematical tools, finding diverse…
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Ade Famoti joins Drone Express Advisory Board
Ade Famoti, Kathleen A. Merrill, Olivier Murguet, and Julia Sattel have joined the esteemed Advisory Board at Drone Express.
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Meet AutoGen: Microsoft’s Super Innovative Framework for Autonomous Agents
Autonomous agents are rapidly becoming one of the hottest trends in generative AI. Still far from being a solve problem or a mainstream trend, autonomous agents is universally acknowledged as one of the new frontiers in the foundation model landscape.…