December 10, 2024 –
December 15, 2024
Microsoft at NeurIPS 2024
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Microsoft booth schedule
Stop by our booth (#445, toward the back of Hall A) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.
| Tuesday, December 10 | Session title | Speaker | Session type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 – 15:30 | Recruitment Hour | Toni Brown-Bell, Cammy Vasquez, Shiloah Vasquez University Recruiting, GTA | Recruitment |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Recruitment Hour | Longqi Yang, E+D Office of Applied Research John Langford | Meet & Greet |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | MAIRA-2: Grounded Radiology Reporting | Shruthi Bannur, Kenza Bouzid Microsoft Health Futures | Talk |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Radfact: An LLM-based evaluation metric for AI generated Radiology Reporting | Stephanie Hyland, Daniel Coelho de Castro Microsoft Health Futures | Talk |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Empowering Scientific Innovation with Generative AI | Yingce Xia, Tao Qin AI for Science | Talk |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee with the AI for Science team | AI for Science | Coffee Chat |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Meet and Greet with Peeyush Kumar, Senior Researcher, MSR Redmond on AI Interaction and Learning | Peeyush Kumar Microsoft Research Redmond | Meet & Greet |
| Wednesday, December 11 | Session title | Speaker | Session type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30 | AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Microsoft Research Asia Promotion Session | Microsoft Research Asia | Talks and Meet & Greets |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | WHAM: World and Human Action Model | Sam Devlin, Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Sarah Parisot, Linda Wen Microsoft Research Redmond | Demo |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | MAIDAP Information Session | Zoey Huang MAIDAP | Info session |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Coffee and Applied Research Hiring | Longqi Yang & OAR Members E+D Office of Applied Research | Recruitment |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Microsoft Research Asia Promotion Session | Microsoft Research Asia | Talk and Meet & Greet |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Recruitment Hour | Toni Brown-Bell, Cammy Vasquez, Shiloah Vasquez University Recruiting, GTA | Recruitment |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge | Hanna Wallach Microsoft Research New York | Talk |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Phi Silica and Multimodal Phi Silica with Quarot for Outlier-Free 4-bit inference | Pashmina Cameron, Maximilian Croci, Mohsen Fayyaz Windows ASG, MSR/MAI | Demo |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale | Rogerio Bonatti W&D Applied Science Group | Talk |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Segmentation-aware Multimodal LLM for radiology | Valentina Salvatelli Microsoft Health Futures | Talk |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge | Hanna Wallach Microsoft Research New York | Talk |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee with the AI for Science team | AI For Science | Coffee Chat |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Accurate retrosynthesis prediction with Chimera | Krzysztof Maziarz AI For Science | Talk |
| Thursday, December 12 | Session title | Speaker | Session type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Phi Silica and Multimodal Phi Silica with Quarot for Outlier-Free 4-bit inference | Pashmina Cameron, Mohsen Fayyaz Windows ASG, MSR/MAI | Demo |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Efficient/Interpretable language and multimodal modeling | Chandan Singh, Lucas Liu, Jianwei Yang Microsoft Research, Redmond Deep Learning Group | Coffee Chat |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Recruitment Hour | Toni Brown-Bell, Cammy Vasquez, Shiloah Vasquez University Recruiting, GTA | Recruitment |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Pyramid Vector Quantization for LLMs | Maximilian Croci, Tycho van der Ouderaa MSR/MAI | Talk |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models | Besmira Nushi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Neel Joshi AI Frontiers | Talk |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | EUREKA: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models | Besmira Nushi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Neel Joshi AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Generative AI for science discovery | Tao Qin and Yingce Xia AI For Science | Talk |
| 12:10 – 12:40 | Coffee with the AI for Science Team | AI For Science | Coffee Chat |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Two podcast sessions hosted by Eliza Strickland from IEEE Spectrum | Chris Bishop and Lidong Zhou | Podcast |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent | Yadong Lu AI Frontiers | Virtual Demo |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems | AutoGen team AI Frontiers | Demo |