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From static prediction to dynamic characterization: AI2BMD advances protein dynamics with ab initio accuracy
| Tong Wang, Yatao Li, Ran Bi, Haiguang Liu, and Tao Qin
Microsoft Research’s AI2BMD, an AI-based system that efficiently simulates a wide range of proteins in all-atom resolution, can advance drug discovery and biomolecular research.
USENIX ATC 2024 best paper | How Microsoft is improving cloud AI infrastructure reliability
As cloud AI workloads grow in complexity and scale, maintaining high system reliability has become crucial. Traditional methods of ensuring system reliability, such as using redundant components, inadvertently introduce a new problem: subtle performance degradation, also known as “gray failures”.…
Author: Machine Learning Group Time-series forecasting is crucial across various industries, including health, energy, commerce, climate, etc. Accurate forecasts over different prediction horizons are essential for both short-term and long-term planning needs across these domains. For instance, during a public health…
Author: Youshan Miao Today, deep learning has permeated our daily lives. As the size of models continues to grow, training these models on massive GPU accelerators has become increasingly time-consuming and costly. To effectively harness the power of massive GPUs…
Research Focus: Week of September 23, 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…
Author: Shujie Liu In recent years, the rapid advancement of AI has continually expanded the capabilities of Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology. Ongoing optimizations and innovations in TTS have enriched and simplified voice interaction experiences. These research developments hold significant potential across…
Innovations in AI: Brain-inspired design for more capable and sustainable technology
| Dongsheng Li, Dongqi Han, and Yansen Wang
Researchers and their collaborators are drawing inspiration from the brain to develop more sustainable AI models. Projects like CircuitNet and CPG-PE improve performance and energy efficiency by mimicking the brain’s neural patterns.
Research Focus: Week of August 26, 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.
Research Focus: Week of August 12, 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.