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Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024
| Zinan Lin, Jinyu Li, Bhaskar Mitra, Siân Lindley, Liang Wang, Nan Yang, and Furu Wei
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:
The rapid development of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technologies and the advent of the large model era have significantly impacted every facet of the information world. As AI steps into the complex web of human society, it is transitioning from…
Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Scholars Program has recently embarked on an exciting new chapter, inviting exceptional young minds from around the world to partake in a transformative three-month research visit. In this second installment of our exclusive series on the…
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.
LLMLingua: Innovating LLM efficiency with prompt compression
| Huiqiang Jiang, Qianhui Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, Yuqing Yang, and Lili Qiu
Advanced prompting technologies for LLMs can lead to excessively long prompts, causing issues. Learn how LLMLingua compresses prompts up to 20x, maintaining quality, reducing latency, and supporting improved UX.
Abstracts: December 6, 2023
| Gretchen Huizinga and Xing Xie
“Abstracts”—your source for world-class research in brief—welcomes Senior Principal Research Manager Xing Xie to the podcast series to discuss his paper on evaluating general-purpose AI with psychometrics.
In a groundbreaking move, Microsoft Research Asia’s prestigious StarTrack Scholars Program has officially taken flight, extending a global invitation to brilliant young minds for an immersive three-month research visit. Picture this: collaboration with elite researchers, a deep dive into the…
Research Focus: Week of November 22, 2023
A new deep-learning compiler for dynamic sparsity; Tongue Tap could make tongue gestures viable for VR/AR headsets; Ranking LLM-Generated Loop Invariants for Program Verification; Assessing the limits of zero-shot foundation models in single-cell biology.
Research Focus: Week of October 23, 2023
In this issue: Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model; Can vine copulas explain complex relationships of weather variables; New system accelerates the adaptive training process; Structural inequalities and relational labor in the influencer industry.