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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.
Research Focus: Week of August 28, 2023
In this issue: An illusion of predictability in scientific results; Kathleen Sullivan named to Insider’s 30 under 40 in healthcare list; FiGURe: Simple and Efficient Unsupervised Node Representations with Filter Augmentations.
Inferring rewards through interaction
| Jessica Maghakian, Akanksha Saran, Cheng Tan, and Paul Mineiro
In reinforcement learning, handcrafting reward functions is difficult and can yield algorithms that don’t generalize well. IGL-P, an interaction-grounded learning strategy, learns personalized rewards for different people in recommender system scenarios.
Awards | International World Wide Web Conference
John Langford, Rob Schapire and co-authors receive the 2023 Seoul Test of Time Award
The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) announced today that the 2023 Seoul Test of Time Award will be presented to the authors of the paper “A Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation;” Wei Chu, (Ant Group), Lihong…
Research Focus: Week of March 6, 2023
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. Attack methods like Spectre (opens in new tab) exploit speculative execution, one of…
Research Focus: Week of February 20, 2023
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. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making, where an agent interacts with…
In the news | ACM
danah boyd featured in the “People of ACM”
The August issue of People of ACM featured danah boyd, Partner Researcher in the New York City Lab. She is the author of “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” and “Participatory Culture in a Networked Era”. In 2013,…
In the news | Microsoft India Paradigm Shift Podcast
Paradigm Shift, Episode 3: Pitches and Pawns
From analyzing every cricketing shot in the book, to infusing intelligence on the chessboard, to reimagining how fans engage with the players and the game–AI is shaping the next best move in sports.
PPE: A fast and provably efficient RL algorithm for exogenous noise
| Dipendra Misra and Yonathan Efroni
Picture a person walking in a park by a pond. The surrounding environment contains a number of moving objects that change the quality of the environment: clouds moving to hide the sun, altering the quality of light; ducks gliding across…