Reliability in Reinforcement Learning
| Romain Laroche
Reinforcement Learning (RL), much like scaling a 3,000-foot rock face, is about learning to make sequential decisions. The list of potential RL applications is expansive, spanning robotics (drone control), dialogue systems (personal assistants, automated call centers), the game industry (non-player…
A phonetic matching made inˈhɛvən
| Matthew Dixon
Recently, Microsoft Research Montréal open sourced a phonetic matching component used previously in Maluuba Inc.'s natural language understanding platform. The library contains string comparison utilities that operate on a phoneme level as opposed to a character level. This allows upstream…
Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a complex task done… or worse, found it difficult even to find a lengthy stretch of time in which…
In the news | Synced
ICLR 2019 | MILA, Microsoft, and MIT Share Best Paper Honours
Ordered Neurons: Integrating Tree Structures into Recurrent Neural Networks, from the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) and the Microsoft Research Montréal lab, was one of two Best Paper winners at ICLR 2019.
In the news | Knowledge@Wharton
How can we overcome the challenge of biased and incomplete data?
Data analytics and artificial intelligence are transforming our lives. Be it in health care, in banking and financial services, or in times of humanitarian crises — data determine the way decisions are made. But often, the way data is collected…
In the news | Innovation at Microsoft
Fusing Art & Science
This piece explores projects that intersect between Science and Art. The idea here is that Art is the bridge to our humanity and enables us to connect with the Science on a deeper, more emotional level.
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
Dr. Shamsi Iqbal, a senior researcher in the Information and Data Sciences group at Microsoft Research, wants to help you manage your attention better and be more productive at the same time. And sheâs using technology to do it!
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Microsoft releases new tool to verify Ethereum smart contracts
Microsoft has released a new open source tool that will allow for the verification and analysis of smart contracts written in the popular Solidity programming language that is commonly used on the Ethereum blockchain.