Research Tools: code, datasets, & models
Discover an index of datasets, SDKs, APIs and open-source tools developed by Microsoft researchers and shared with the global academic community below. These experimental technologies—available through Azure AI Foundry Labs (opens in new tab)—offer a glimpse into the future of AI innovation.
Viral Economy Simulator
Financial efficiency is the premier performance measure for most systems. Existing economic ecosystems for distribution of multimedia leave a lot to be desired: client-server platforms do not scale well, resulting in substantial operational costs, whereas…
Switching Linear Dynamic Model
This code enables training and evaluation of a switching linear dynamic model for enhancing cepstral streams for automatic speech recognition, as described in our ICASSP 2004 paper, Noise Robust Speech Recognition with a Switching Linear…
Digital Effects for MSN Messenger – 1.1.1033
Digital Effects, a plug-in for MSN Messenger video chatting, produces special effects for video communication. While the plug-in loads, users can select 3-D costumes or other digital effects in a pop-up window, and those effects…
Orthant-Wise Limited-memory Quasi-Newton Optimizer for L1-regularized Objectives
The Orthant-Wise Limited-memory Quasi-Newton algorithm (OWL-QN) is a numerical optimization procedure for finding the optimum of an objective of the form {smooth function} plus {L1-norm of the parameters}. It has been used for training log-linear…
Microsoft Research MapSynthesis
HTML and JavaScript Web code that displays a user interface to enable users to search, assimilate, and compare maps rapidly from an extensive corpus. The download includes a reference to a sample corpus of approximately…
Impact of Controlled Language on Machine-Translation Quality and Post-Editing Efforts
Results from experiments conducted by Microsoft Research’s Machine Translation Incubation Team to investigate the impact of using good English (controlled language) on post-editing productivity—as well as on the overall quality of our statistical machine-translation system.
Microsoft Research Asia Chinese Word-Segmentation Data Set
A set of manually annotated Chinese word-segmentation data and specifications for training and testing a Chinese word-segmentation system for research purposes. The data was extracted from the People’s Daily, which we have licensed for commercial…