NeurIPS 2024: AI for Science with Chris Bishop
| Christopher Bishop and Eliza Strickland
From the Microsoft Booth at NeurIPS 2024, Microsoft Research AI for Science Director Chris Bishop discusses how AI is changing approaches to scientific advancement—from drug discovery to weather forecasting—and the profound impact it can have on the world.
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Jindong Wang and Steven Euijong Whang
| Gretchen Huizinga, Jindong Wang, and Steven Euijong Whang
Researcher Jindong Wang and Associate Professor Steven Euijong Whang explore the NeurIPS 2024 work ERBench. ERBench leverages relational databases to create LLM benchmarks that can verify model rationale via keywords in addition to checking answer correctness.
Rho-1：基于选择token建模的预训练方法
在自然语言处理领域，预训练语言模型常因大规模噪声数据而面临挑战。对此，微软亚洲研究院的研究员们提出了一种新型的基于选择 token 建模的预训练方法。该方法通过选择性语言建模（Selective Language Modeling, SLM）策略，精准筛选出对模型训练有价值的 token，有效提升了数据效率和模型性能。这一突破不仅优化了模型训练过程，也为自然语言处理技术的进一步发展提供了新思路。本...
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