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Jianwei Yang introduces Magma, a new multimodal agentic foundation model designed for UI navigation in digital environments and robotics manipulation in physical settings.
BiomedParse: A foundation model for smarter, all-in-one biomedical image analysis
| Hoifung Poon, Theodore Zhao, Aiden Gu, Mu Wei, and Sheng Wang
BiomedParse reimagines medical image analysis, integrating advanced AI to capture complex insights across imaging types—a step forward for diagnostics and precision medicine.
Research Focus: Week of February 19, 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.
NeurIPS 2023 highlights breadth of Microsoft’s machine learning innovation
We’re proud to have 100+ accepted papers At NeurIPS 2023, plus 18 workshops. Several submissions were chosen as oral presentations and spotlight posters, reflecting groundbreaking concepts, methods, or applications. Here’s an overview of those submissions.
Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are able to generate human-like, fluent responses for many downstream tasks, e.g., task-oriented dialog and question answering. However, applying LLMs to real-world, mission-critical applications remains challenging mainly due to their tendency to generate…
Research Focus: Week of November 7, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Barun Patra, Saksham Singhal, Shaohan Huang, Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Furu Wei,…
Human eyes have a dynamic focusing system that adjusts the focal regions in order to see the surroundings at all distances. When we look far away, up close, and back again, our eyes change focus rapidly to allow us to…
Website: https://computer-vision-in-the-wild.github.io/eccv-2022/ (opens in new tab) Workshop: The research community has recently witnessed a trend in building transferable visual models that can effortlessly adapt to a wide range of downstream computer vision (CV) and multimodal (MM) tasks. We are organizing…