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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.
  1. 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.

  2. Research Focus: July 22, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024 

    July 31, 2024

    In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.

  3. 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.

  4. Research Focus: May 13, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024 

    May 15, 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. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to that created by people, proving…

  5. Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024 

    May 2, 2024

    In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performance disparities on blind/low vision data; plus recent news.

  6. Research Focus April 15, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024 

    April 17, 2024

    In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages:

  7. Research Focus March 20, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of March 18, 2024 

    March 20, 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. Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities, yet they still struggle with math reasoning. In a recent…

  8. Research Focus Week of February 19, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of February 19, 2024 

    February 21, 2024

    In this issue: CaaSPER: vertical autoscaling algorithm dynamically maintains optimal CPU utilization; Improved scene landmark detection for camera localization runs faster, uses less storage; ESUS simplifies usability questionnaires for technical products and services.

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