December 2017 Graph Update
The Microsoft Academic Graph that powers Microsoft Academic is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy. Here are the numbers for this week's update, which you can access through the Academic Knowledge API or Microsoft Academic:…
New Meta-learning Techniques for Neural Program Induction
| Rishabh Singh
Much research in AI lately focuses on extending the capabilities of deep learning architectures: moving beyond simple classification and pattern recognition into the realm of learning algorithmic tasks, such as inductive programming. Building on our past work in neural program…
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A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of IoT
Microsoft Research has poured its IoT efforts into Project Sopris, placing the IoT security focus to microcontrollers, while keeping costs down.
Deliberation Network: Pushing the frontiers of neural machine translation
| Fei Tian
During the Tang dynasty of China, which lasted from 618 to 907, the poet Jia Dao was known for polishing his poems over and over to make them better and better. One famous story describes how he deliberated over two…
Hybrid Reward Architecture and the Fall of Ms. Pac-Man with Dr. Harm van Seijen
If you’ve ever watched King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, you know what a big deal it is to beat a video arcade game that was designed not to lose. Most humans can’t even come close. Enter Harm van Seijen,…
‘Contextual bandit’ breakthrough enables deeper personalization
| Miro Dudík
News portals that simultaneously personalize every part of the landing page for every visitor and mobile health apps that adaptively tweak every part of an exercise regimen to maximize the benefit of every user are becoming plausible due to an…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a technology to help computer process or understand human languages. It includes: Syntactic-semantic Analysis: Conduct word segmentation, the tagging of parts of speech, named entity recognition and linking, syntactic analysis, semantic role recognition, and polysemy…
The amount of today’s rich media content is unprecedented. Every second, people are creating and sharing enormous amounts of information, and particularly content that includes complex image and text information. Among these contents, the combination of text and images has…
Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
| Sebastian Nowozin
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs). Today at NIPS 2017, researchers…