Podcasts

  1. Outlined illustrations of Chris Hawblitzel and Jay Lorch for the Microsoft Research Podcast, Abstracts series.

    Abstracts: November 5, 2024 

    November 5, 2024 | Amber Tingle, Chris Hawblitzel, and Jay Lorch

    Researchers Chris Hawblitzel and Jay Lorch share how progress in programming languages and verification approaches are bringing bug-free software within reach. Their work on the Rust verification tool Verus won the Distinguished Artifact Award at SOSP ’24.

  2. Outlined illustrations of Shan Lu and Bogdan Stoica for the Microsoft Research Podcast.

    Abstracts: November 4, 2024 

    November 4, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga, Shan Lu, and Bogdan Stoica

    In their 2024 SOSP paper, researchers explore a common—though often undertested—software system issue: retry bugs. Research manager Shan Lu and PhD candidate Bogdan Stoica share how they’re combining traditional program analysis and LLMs to address the challenge.

  3. Stylized microphone and sound waves illustration.

    Abstracts: August 15, 2024 

    August 15, 2024 | Amber Tingle, Shrey Jain, and Zoë Hitzig

    Advanced AI may make it easier for bad actors to deceive others online. A multidisciplinary research team is exploring one solution: a credential that allows people to show they’re not bots without sharing identifying information. Shrey Jain and Zoë Hitzig explain.

  4. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts

    Abstracts: July 29, 2024 

    July 29, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga and Li Lyna Zhang

    A lack of appropriate data, decreased model performance, and other obstacles have made it difficult to expand the input language models can receive. Li Lyna Zhang introduces LongRoPE, a method capable of extending content windows to more than 2 million tokens.

  5. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts

    Abstracts: July 18, 2024 

    July 18, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga and Arindam Mitra

    Senior Researcher Arindam Mitra introduces AgentInstruct. Using raw data sources, the automated multi-agent framework can create diverse, high-quality synthetic data at scale for the post-training of small and large language models.

  6. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts | May 20, 2024 | Andrey Kolobov

    Abstracts: May 20, 2024 

    May 20, 2024 | Andrey Kolobov and Gretchen Huizinga

    Andrey Kolobov discusses WindSeer, a small CNN capable of estimating the wind field around an sUAV in flight more finely and with less compute and data than traditional models. The advancement can help support longer and safer autonomous flights.

  7. Stylized microphone and sound waves illustration.

    Abstracts: May 6, 2024 

    May 6, 2024 | Michel Galley and Gretchen Huizinga

    Researcher Michel Galley explores how he and fellow researchers combined new and existing data to create MathVista, an open-source benchmark for measuring the mathematical reasoning capabilities of foundation models in scenarios that involve text and images.

  8. Stylized microphone and sound waves illustration.

    Abstracts: April 16, 2024 

    April 16, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga and Tusher Chakraborty

    Tusher Chakraborty talks about the paper “Spectrumize: Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things,” including a method for supporting communication between a large IoT-satellite constellation and devices on Earth within a limited spectrum.

  9. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: March 21, 2024 

    March 21, 2024 | Chang Liu and Gretchen Huizinga

    Senior Researcher Chang Liu discusses M-OFDFT, a variation of orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) that leverages deep learning to help identify molecular properties in a way that minimizes the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency.

  10. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: February 29, 2024 

    February 29, 2024 | Lev Tankelevitch and Gretchen Huizinga

    Can how we think about our thinking help us better incorporate generative AI in our lives & work? Explore metacognition’s potential to improve the tech’s usability on “Abstracts,” then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on this & other AI work.

  11. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: January 25, 2024 

    January 25, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga, Jordan Ash, and Dipendra Misra

    On “Abstracts,” Jordan Ash & Dipendra Misra discuss the parameter reduction method LASER. Tune in to learn how selective removal of stored data alone can boost LLM performance, then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on LASER & related topics.