In the news | The Register
Microsoft’s TextWorld gives AI a Zork-like challenge
While the rest of the Microsoft world squeaked with excitement about new hardware and free collaboration tools, the boffins at Redmond's Montréal Research Lab have looked to history as way to help Reinforcement Learning (RL) researchers skill up their AI…
New perspectives on contextual bandit
| Sébastien Bubeck
What is the common denominator between the following situations: a doctor choosing among different drugs for a sequence of patients; a website selecting ads for its visitors based on the information it has about them; and a travel agency making…
In the news | SiliconANGLE
Microsoft’s new TextWorld framework generates games to train AI models
TextWorld enables researchers to define how games should play out by providing high-level specifications. It also lets researchers use existing, human-written games to create an even more challenging training environment.
TextWorld: A learning environment for training reinforcement learning agents, inspired by text-based games
| Wendy Tay, Adam Trischler, and Emery Fine
Today, fresh out of the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, comes an open-source project called TextWorld. TextWorld is an extensible Python framework for generating text-based games. Reinforcement learning researchers can use TextWorld to train and test AI agents in skills such…
Helping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
| Vani Mandava
Scientific research breakthroughs are often achieved when many different scientists, in different labs and organizations, work together on a single task. That happened at the turn of the 21st century with the Human Genome Project, where human DNA was mapped…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Helping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
The Big Data Hubs are a National Science Foundation-sponsored effort that supplies cloud computing credits to large scientific projects, including Azure credits donated by Microsoft.
The story of an Office AI feature: How AI can promote efficient meeting preparation
Adam Troy had an idea. He was spending so much time searching through old emails and attachments to prepare for meetings: Could AI help him be better prepared for meetings? Could machine learning automatically identify the most relevant emails and…
In between the lines: Broadening access to web search by understanding the needs of people with dyslexia
People with dyslexia perceive the world in different ways when it comes to the arrangement of letters and words on paper – or, these days, on web pages. Indeed, so much of modern life and accessibility to the information that…