铸星闪耀 | 张扶桑：开展以人为本的研究，结识惺惺相惜的伙伴
编者按：微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”向全球杰出的青年学者发出邀请，提供在微软亚洲研究院进行为期三个月研究访问的机会。无论是与领域内顶尖研究员合作的机会，还是丰富的数据集和强大的支持资源，抑或是产业界独有的实际应用场景，都吸引着青年才俊们来到微软亚洲研究院探索领域内的前沿新知。 本文讲述了 2022 年度“铸星计划”访问学者、中国科学院软件研究所副研究员张扶桑的“铸星”故事。人在哪里，场景在哪里，无线...
铸星闪耀 | 郑伟龙：通过脑电波，我想看到抑郁症患者眼中的世界
编者按：微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”向全球杰出的青年学者发出邀请，提供在微软亚洲研究院进行为期三个月研究访问的机会。无论是与领域内顶尖研究员合作的机会，还是丰富的数据集和强大的支持资源，抑或是产业界独有的实际应用场景，都吸引着青年才俊们来到微软亚洲研究院探索领域内的前沿新知。 本文讲述了 2022 年度“铸星计划”访问学者、上海交通大学副教授郑伟龙的“铸星”故事。如果能知道抑郁症患者眼中的世界与普通...
Skeleton-of-Thought: Parallel decoding speeds up and improves LLM output
| Xuefei Ning and Zinan Lin
This research was accepted by the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations. Large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and OpenAI’s GPT-4 are revolutionizing technology. However, one of the common complaints about LLMs is their speed, or lack thereof. In…
What’s Your Story: Desney Tan
| Johannes Gehrke and Desney Tan
From service in the Singapore Armed Forces to autonomous navigation with NASA & VR with Disney, Desney Tan’s life journey hasn’t been linear. Learn how Tan landed at Microsoft & about the purpose guiding his work in the podcast series…
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A Playbook
Given the urgency of the planetary crisis, society needs to push harder on the AI accelerator while establishing guardrails that steer the world safely, securely, and equitably toward net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and a nature-positive future. This year the world…
编者按：欢迎阅读“科研上新”栏目！“科研上新”汇聚了微软亚洲研究院最新的创新成果与科研动态。在这里，你可以快速浏览研究院的亮点资讯，保持对前沿领域的敏锐嗅觉，同时也能找到先进实用的开源工具。 本期内容速览 01. CLaMP: 面向音乐信息检索的语言-音乐对比预训练02. LUT-NN: 通过查找表实现的高效神经网络推理03. Large Search Model: 在大模型时代重定义搜索框架 论...
In the news | The Verge
Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?
Applying the advancing tech to how we grow and cultivate our food has some big upsides — but is it worth the cost? What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to start a company together? They…
In the news | TheSequence
Edge 342: Who’s Happy Potter? Inside One of the Most Fascinating Papers Published This Year
In one of the most fascinating papers of this year, Microsoft Research explores an unlearning technique for LLMs. The challenge was nothing less than making Llama-7B to forget any knowledge of Harry Potter.
Research Focus: Week of November 8, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is essential for creating…