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ICLR 2022 highlights from Microsoft Research Asia: Expanding the horizon of machine learning techniques and applications
| Shun Zheng, Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu, Li Zhao, Tao Qin, Yue Wang, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang, and Xufang Luo
ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) (opens in new tab) is recognized as one of the top conferences in the field of deep learning. Many influential papers on artificial intelligence, statistics, and data science—as well as important application fields such…
In the news | AI – Cognitive Services Blog
New technical research is advancing Azure’s Neural Text-to-Speech service
Neural Text-to-Speech (Neural TTS), a powerful speech synthesis capability of Azure Cognitive Services, enables users to convert text to lifelike speech. It is used in various scenarios including voice assistant, content read-aloud capabilities, accessibility tools, and more. Azure Neural TTS…
Error correction is an important post-processing method in speech recognition that aims to detect and correct errors in speech recognition results, thereby further improving the accuracy of speech recognition. Many error correction models use autoregressive models with high latency, but…
Awards | 2022 Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference
Dongmei Zhang awarded the 2022 Mining Software Repositories Foundational Contribution Award
Dongmei Zhang along with fellow Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Conference attendee, Tao Xie, were awarded the 2022 MSR Foundational Contribution award for their fundamental contributions in opening new areas of software analytics research with pioneering results and techniques that have…
Segmenting objects in images is a fundamental step that researchers have taken towards achieving scene understanding and has played a crucial role in numerous vision systems. The most common approach in this line of research is to classify individual pixels…
Imitation learning has proven to be effective for learning sequential decision-making policies directly from expert demonstrations, reducing the need for costly and risky environmental interactions. Behavioral cloning is a simple form of imitation learning and learns a policy by solving…
AAAI is one of the top academic conferences in the field of Artificial Intelligence and is hosted by the Association for the Advance of Artificial Intelligence. This year’s AAAI conference was held from February 22 to March 1. More than…
Since COVID-19 first broke out, nearly 280 million people worldwide have contracted the disease, and more the 5.4 million people have died as a result, bringing huge losses and injuries to the global economy and to social life. In contrast,…
Microsoft Research Asia announced that Dr. Lili Qiu, a world-leading expert in the field of Internet and mobile wireless networks, has officially joined Microsoft Research Asia as Assistant Managing Director and will be mainly responsible for overseeing the research, as…