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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:
  1. 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:

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Research Focus: May 27, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of May 27, 2024 

    May 29, 2024

    How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.

  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. flowchart showing how AI learns from user interactions

    Learning from interaction with Microsoft Copilot (web) 

    March 27, 2024

    Microsoft researchers are taking a comprehensive and dynamic approach to help Copilot (web) continuously learn from interaction and feedback, improving the AI system and making it increasingly useful for consumers. Learn more.

  8. Research Focus - week of January 8, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024 

    January 10, 2024

    Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:

  9. Research Focus October 11, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of October 9, 2023 

    October 11, 2023

    Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.

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