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Microsoft makes performance, speed optimizations to ONNX machine-learning runtime available to developers
Microsoft is open sourcing and integrating some updates it it has made in deep-learning models used for natural-language processing. On January 21, the company announced it is making available to developers these optimizations by integrating them into the ONNX Runtime.
Awards | IEEE Computer Society
Nachi Nagappan to receive 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award
Nachi Nagappan has been selected to receive the 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award for his “outstanding contributions to empirical software engineering and data-driven software development.” The Harlan D. Mills Award recognizes researchers and practitioners who have demonstrated long-standing, sustained, and impactful…
In the news | Microsoft Open Source Blog
Microsoft open sources breakthrough optimizations for transformer inference on GPU and CPU
One of the most popular deep learning models used for natural language processing is BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). Due to the significant computation required, inferencing BERT at high scale can be extremely costly and may not even be possible…
In the news | Linux.com
Microsoft Opens Up Rust-Inspired Project Verona Programming Language On GitHub
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Microsoft opens up Rust-inspired Project Verona programming language on GitHub
Microsoft recently created a stir after revealing it was taking some ideas from the popular Rust programming language to create a new language for 'safe infrastructure programming' under the banner Project Verona.
By making text-based games more accessible to RL agents, Jericho framework opens up exciting natural language challenges
| Matthew Hausknecht, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Eric Yuan, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
You’re in a field. In front of you, there’s a white house. The door is boarded shut. The immediate challenge—investigate the house. The game—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, a treasure-seeking adventure in which you’ll encounter monsters, a thief, and…
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Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 2
Until now, AI classifications have been out of reach for most local government stakeholders across both the developed and developing world. Leveraging AI techniques has meant bringing in specialized cooks and hardware, and these barriers mean that the exposure and…
Jannes Gladrow, AI Resident Hey! My name is Jannes Gladrow and I am an AI resident at MSR Cambridge (UK). In this blog post, I want to talk about how I got here. The path behind me is not direct but curved…