MoLeR: Creating a path to more efficient drug design
| Krzysztof Maziarz, Marc Brockschmidt, and Marwin Segler
Drug discovery has come a long way from its roots in serendipity. It is now an increasingly rational process, in which one important phase, called lead optimization, is the stepwise search for promising drug candidate compounds in the lab. In…
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Brasileiro lidera pesquisa na Microsoft
Pergunte ao brasileiro Henrique Malvar qual seu trabalho atual e ele lhe contará um episódio passado recentemente em Cingapura...
ICLR 2022 | 微软亚洲研究院深度学习领域最新研究成果一览
编者按：ICLR（International Conference on Learning Representations）是国际公认的深度学习领域顶级会议之一，众多在人工智能、统计和数据科学领域以及计算机视觉、语音识别、文本理解等重要应用领域极其有影响力的论文都发表在该大会上。今年的 ICLR 大会于4月25日至29日在线上举办。本届大会共接收论文1095篇，论文接收率32.3%。今天，我们精选...
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Juan Lavista Ferres from Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab
Juan Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director at Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab, speaks with Humanitarian AI Today's host Sarah Spencer about how his team is aiding NGOs by leveraging data to address a variety of global humanitarian…
PPE: A fast and provably efficient RL algorithm for exogenous noise
| Dipendra Misra and Yonathan Efroni
Picture a person walking in a park by a pond. The surrounding environment contains a number of moving objects that change the quality of the environment: clouds moving to hide the sun, altering the quality of light; ducks gliding across…
Tommy Guy and Kidus Asfaw We noticed an odd case of nondeterminism in Spark’s randomSplit function, which is often used to generate test/train data splits for Machine Learning training scripts. There are other posts, notably this one (opens in new tab) that…
矣晓沅：“轮椅上的学霸”，用科技推动无障碍发展
编者按：今天“科学匠人”栏目的主人公名叫矣晓沅，他用实际行动证明了在轮椅上一样可以书写精彩的人生。从清华校园到微软亚洲研究院，他是如何开启自己的学术生涯？对于未来的研究方向和职业规划他有怎样的思考？科技又将如何推动无障碍领域的发展？让我们一起走近微软亚洲研究院研究员矣晓沅。 在2022年2月19日举行的2021 CCF 颁奖典礼上，矣晓沅从颁奖嘉宾的手中接过了“CCF 优秀博士学位论文奖”的奖杯和...
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Q&A: Making Earth-friendly electronics
The very components that make electronics fast and easy to use also make their disposal an environmental nightmare. Components of smartphones, computers and even kitchen appliances contain heavy metals and other compounds that are toxic to us and harmful to…