Language is the most intuitive way for us to express how we feel and what we want. However, despite recent advancements in artificial intelligence, it is still very hard to control a robot using natural language instructions. Free-form commands such…
Authors: Kidus Asfaw, Sally Kellaway, and Radha Sayyaparaju When crafting your marketing and sales strategies, personalizing your marketing campaigns, journeys and content to the special traits of your customer segments is an important way to drive engagement and purchases. One…
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Who Gets to Work in the Digital Economy?
Remote work has become commonplace since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the focus on daily remote work arrangements may miss a larger opportunity that the pandemic has unearthed: the possibility of a substantially increased labor pool for digital…
如何高效、精准地进行图片搜索？看看轻量化视觉预训练模型
编者按：你是否有过图像检索的烦恼？或是难以在海量化的图像中准确地找到所需图像，或是在基于文本的检索中得到差强人意的结果。对于这个难题，微软亚洲研究院和微软云计算与人工智能事业部的研究人员对轻量化视觉模型进行了深入研究，并提出了一系列视觉预训练模型的设计和压缩方法，实现了视觉 Transformer 的轻量化部署需求。目前该方法和模型已成功应用于微软必应搜索引擎，实现了百亿图片的精准、快速推理和检索...
The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is regarded as the premier conference in computer vision and pattern recognition. CVPR 2022, held on June 19-23, received a record number of 8,161 full submissions that went into the review…
文档智能多模态预训练模型LayoutLMv3：兼具通用性与优越性
编者按：企业数字化转型中，以文档、图像等多模态形式为载体的结构化分析和内容提取是其中的关键一环，快速、自动、精准地处理包括合同、票据、报告等信息，对提升现代企业生产效率至关重要。因此，文档智能技术应运而生。过去几年，微软亚洲研究院推出了通用文档理解预训练 LayoutLM 系列研究成果，并不断优化模型对文档中文本、布局和视觉信息的预训练性能。近期发表的最新的 LayoutLM 3.0 版本，在以文...
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Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems
Global integrated reporting is essential if the planet is to achieve net-zero emissions. In March, the United Nations took its first meaningful step to hold investors, businesses, cities and regions accountable for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, when UN secretary-general António Guterres…
无限视觉生成模型NUWA-Infinity让视觉艺术创作自由延伸
编者按：此前，微软亚洲研究院提出了多模态模型 NUWA，它可以基于给定的文本、视觉或多模态输入生成图像或视频，并支持多种视觉艺术作品创建任务，包括文本到图像或视频的生成、图像补全、视频预测等。近日，微软亚洲研究院公开发表了新的研究成果：NUWA 的升级版——无限视觉生成模型 NUWA-Infinity，让视觉艺术创作趋于“无限流”，可生成任意大小的高分辨率图像或长时间视频。一起来感受一下 AI 的...
Author: Allie Giddings and Chhaya Methani In our last blog post, we explained how news is surfaced in Supply Chain Insights and how it can be useful for having better risk visibility. Since then, we’ve made two major updates to…