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Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024

November 13, 2024
Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.

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  1. Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024 

    November 13, 2024

    Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.

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    Microsoft at SOSP 2024: Innovations in systems research 

    November 4, 2024

    Building resilient systems, scaling deep learning computation, and reproducing failures in production are just some of the ways Microsoft researchers are advancing the state of the art in computer systems research at SOSP 2024.

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    Research Focus: Week of October 28, 2024 

    November 1, 2024

    New Research | FLASH: Workflow automation agent for diagnosing recurring incidents; METAREFLECTION: Learning instructions for language agents using past reflections; Boosting LLM training efficiency through faster communication between GPUs; and more.

  4. Research Focus | October 7, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024 

    October 9, 2024

    Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads.

  5. Research Focus | September 23, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of September 23, 2024 

    September 25, 2024

    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. Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict future values based on previously observed data points over time.…

  6. Research Focus | September 9, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of September 9, 2024 

    September 12, 2024

    Investigating vulnerabilities in LLMs; A novel total-duration-aware (TDA) duration model for text-to-speech (TTS); Generative expert metric system through iterative prompt priming; Integrity protection in 5G fronthaul networks:

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    Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024 

    August 28, 2024

    Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3;  WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.

  8. Research Focus: August 5, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of August 12, 2024 

    August 14, 2024

    In this issue: Research Forum Ep. 4 explores multimodal AI. Registration is now open; Surveying developers’ AI needs; SuperBench improves cloud AI infrastructure reliability; Virtual Voices: Exploring factors influencing participation in virtual meetings.

  9. Research Focus: July 15, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of July 15, 2024 

    July 17, 2024

    Advancing time series analysis with multi-granularity guided diffusion model; An algorithm-system co-design for fast, scalable MoE inference; What makes a search metric successful in large-scale settings; learning to solve PDEs without simulated data.

  10. Research Focus: June 24, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of June 24, 2024 

    June 26, 2024

    In this issue: RENC makes 5G vRAN servers more energy efficient; CoExplorer uses AI to keep video meetings on track; Automatic bug detection in LLM-powered text-based games; MAIRA-2: Grounded radiology report generation.

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