Improving LLM understanding of structured data and exploring advanced prompting methods
| Mengyu Zhou
Structural Understanding Capabilities is a new benchmark for evaluating and improving LLM comprehension of structured table data. This advance can help LLMs process and analyze data more effectively, broadening their applicability in real-world tasks.
Research Forum Episode 2: Transforming health care and the natural sciences, AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies
Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever. Episode 2 of Microsoft Research Forum explores how AI is transforming health care and the natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies.
Research Focus: Week of March 4, 2024
In this issue: Generative kaleidoscopic networks; Text diffusion with reinforced conditioning; PRISE – Learning temporal action abstractions as a sequence compression problem.
Orca-Math: Demonstrating the potential of SLMs with model specialization
| Arindam Mitra, Hamed Khanpour, Corby Rosset, and Ahmed Awadallah
Microsoft’s Orca-Math, a specialized small language model, outperforms much larger models in solving math problems that require multi-step reasoning and shows the potential of using feedback to improve language models. Learn more.
李潇：Aspire的力量——年轻科研人员的成长加速器与沟通桥梁
编者按：他曾是微软亚洲研究院的“首席实习生”，也是2019届微软亚洲研究院与中国科学技术大学的联合培养博士生。经历了互联网行业的实践之后，他选择重回微软亚洲研究院，成为了一名多媒体计算组的研究员，同时也是微软亚洲研究院 Aspire 社团的核心力量之一。他就是江湖人称“潇帝”的李潇。 今天就让我们通过李潇的视角，了解一下微软亚洲研究院的 Aspire 究竟是一个怎样的组织，以及从“首席实习生”到高...
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Village by village, creating the building blocks for AI tools
Indian social impact organization, Karya, uses Microsoft AI to provide their employees with educational tools to earn and learn: https://msft.it/6044c3no2
ViSNet: A general molecular geometry modeling framework for predicting molecular properties and simulating molecular dynamics
| Tong Wang, Bin Shao, and Tie-Yan Liu
Molecular geometry modeling is a powerful tool for understanding the intricate relationships between molecular structure and biological activity – a field known as structure-activity relationships (SAR). The main premise of SAR is that the biological activity of a molecule is…
Abstracts: February 29, 2024
| Lev Tankelevitch and Gretchen Huizinga
Can how we think about our thinking help us better incorporate generative AI in our lives & work? Explore metacognition’s potential to improve the tech’s usability on “Abstracts,” then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on this &…
Awards | ACM SIGCHI
Ryen White selected for ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2024
White is recognized for his significant and sustained contributions to human-computer interaction. He and his many collaborators have advanced our understanding of people’s interactions with information and developed innovative solutions that have improved search systems and helped address societal challenges.