{"id":936249,"date":"2023-04-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?p=936249"},"modified":"2023-05-02T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:35:10","slug":"research-focus-week-of-april-24-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/research-focus-week-of-april-24-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Focus: Week of April 24, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2023\/04\/RF14-blog-banner-1400x264-1.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft Research Focus 14 edition, week of April 24, 2023\" class=\"wp-image-936333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2023\/04\/RF14-blog-banner-1400x264-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2023\/04\/RF14-blog-banner-1400x264-1-300x57.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2023\/04\/RF14-blog-banner-1400x264-1-1024x193.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2023\/04\/RF14-blog-banner-1400x264-1-768x145.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2023\/04\/RF14-blog-banner-1400x264-1-240x45.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><em class=\"\">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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n<aside id=accordion-a711d7e9-ac09-4bda-9dcb-670fef850344 class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block accordion mb-5 pb-0\" data-bi-aN=\"table-of-contents\">\n\t<button class=\"btn btn-collapse bg-gray-100 mb-0 display-flex justify-content-between\" type=\"button\" data-mount=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#accordion-collapse-a711d7e9-ac09-4bda-9dcb-670fef850344\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"accordion-collapse-a711d7e9-ac09-4bda-9dcb-670fef850344\">\n\t\t<span class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__label subtitle\">In this article<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__current mr-4 text-gray-600 font-weight-normal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t<\/button>\n\t<div id=\"accordion-collapse-a711d7e9-ac09-4bda-9dcb-670fef850344\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__collapse-wrapper collapse show\" data-parent=\"#accordion-a711d7e9-ac09-4bda-9dcb-670fef850344\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-body bg-gray-100 border-top pt-4\">\n\t\t\t<ol class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#microsoft-researcher-kalai-awarded-2022-acm-prize-in-computing\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\">Microsoft researcher Kalai awarded 2022 ACM Prize in Computing<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#empowering-azure-storage-with-rdma\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\">Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#lida-automatic-generation-of-grammar-agnostic-visualizations-and-infographics-using-large-language-models\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\">LIDA: Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#announcing-deepspeed-chat-easy-fast-affordable-rlhf-training-of-chatgpt-like-models-at-all-scales\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\">Announcing DeepSpeed-Chat: Easy, fast, affordable RLHF Training of ChatGPT-like models at all scales<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#gov4git-decentralized-community-governance-to-fuel-open-source-projects\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\">Gov4git: Decentralized community governance to fuel open-source projects<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#learn-more\" class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\">Learn more:<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<span class=\"msr-table-of-contents-block__progress-bar\"><\/span>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"award\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\">AWARD<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"microsoft-researcher-kalai-awarded-2022-acm-prize-in-computing\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Microsoft researcher Kalai awarded 2022 ACM Prize in Computing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yael\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yael Tauman Kalai<\/a>, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, has been awarded the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing. Kalai was recognized for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. According to the award announcement, \u201cKalai\u2019s contributions have helped shape modern cryptographic practices and provided a strong foundation for further advancements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/award-recipients\/kalai_6965246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACM Prize in Computing<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> recognizes early-to-mid-career computer scientists whose research contributions have fundamental impact and broad implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"border-bottom border-top border-gray-300 mt-5 mb-5 msr-promo text-center text-md-left alignwide\" data-bi-aN=\"promo\" data-bi-id=\"1044939\">\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<p class=\"msr-promo__label text-gray-800 text-center text-uppercase\">\n\t\t<span class=\"px-4 bg-white display-inline-block font-weight-semibold small\">on-demand event<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"row pt-3 pb-4 align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-promo__media col-12 col-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"bg-gray-300\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/story\/sep-2024-brief\/?OCID=msr_researchforum_MCR_Blog_Promo\" aria-label=\"Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4\" data-bi-cN=\"Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 display-block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2024\/08\/RF4_Panel_1400x788.jpg\" alt=\"Research Forum | Episode 4 Panel | John Langford, Hoifung Poon, Katja Hofmann, Jianwei Yang\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-promo__content p-3 px-5 col-12 col-md\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h4\">Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"large\">Learn about the latest multimodal AI models, advanced benchmarks for AI evaluation and model self-improvement, and an entirely new kind of computer for AI inference and hard optimization. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-buttons justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/story\/sep-2024-brief\/?OCID=msr_researchforum_MCR_Blog_Promo\" class=\"btn btn-brand glyph-append glyph-append-chevron-right\" aria-label=\"Watch on-demand\" data-bi-cN=\"Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWatch on-demand\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!--\/.msr-promo__content-->\n\t<\/div><!--\/.msr-promo__inner-wrap-->\n\t<\/div><!--\/.msr-promo-->\n\t\n\n\n<p>Among the multiple accomplishments cited for the award, Kalai has developed methods for producing succinct proofs that certify the correctness of any computation. This method enables a weak device to offload any computation to a stronger device in a way that enables the results to be efficiently checked for correctness. Such succinct proofs have been used by blockchain companies to certify transaction validity, thereby overcoming key obstacles in blockchain scalability and enabling faster and more reliable transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kalai was also cited for her breakthrough work on the security of the &#8220;Fiat-Shamir paradigm,&#8221; a general technique for eliminating interaction from interactive protocols. This paradigm is extensively utilized in real-world applications, including the most prevalent digital signature scheme (ECDSA), which is used by all iOS and Android mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--e79034d7ea037695ec1ef89d0ae490b5\"><a data-bi-type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/award-recipients\/kalai_6965246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Award announcement<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"new-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\">NEW RESEARCH<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"empowering-azure-storage-with-rdma\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>High performance and highly reliable storage are fundamental requirements of public clouds. Given the wide adoption of disaggregated storage in the cloud, networking is essential for enabling high performance and high reliability. Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud service uses remote direct memory access (RDMA) as its transport and aims to enable it for both storage frontend traffic (between compute virtual machines and storage clusters) and backend traffic (within a storage cluster) to fully realize its benefits. As compute and storage clusters may be located in different datacenters within an Azure region, RDMA needs to be supported at regional scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/empowering-azure-storage-with-rdma-technical-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA<\/a>, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research report on their intra-region RDMA deployment to support storage workloads in Azure. The high complexity and heterogeneity of Azure infrastructure creates challenges, such as the problem of interoperability between different types of RDMA network interface cards. Several changes were made to the network infrastructure to address these challenges. Today, around 70% of traffic in Azure is RDMA and intra-region RDMA is supported in all Azure public regions. This helps achieve significant disk I\/O performance improvements and CPU core savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--4d128b1cde3b1354b11410f10808e23a\"><a data-bi-type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/empowering-azure-storage-with-rdma-technical-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"new-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\">NEW RESEARCH<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"lida-automatic-generation-of-grammar-agnostic-visualizations-and-infographics-using-large-language-models\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">LIDA: Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Systems that support users in the automatic creation of visualizations must address several subtasks\u2014understand the semantics of data; enumerate relevant visualization goals; and generate visualization specifications. In a new paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/lida-automatic-generation-of-grammar-agnostic-visualizations-and-infographics-using-large-language-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LIDA: Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models<\/a>, researchers from Microsoft&nbsp;pose visualization generation as a multi-stage generation problem&nbsp;and argue that well-orchestrated pipelines based on large language models (LLMs) and image generation models (IGMs) are suitable to addressing these tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIDA is a novel tool for generating grammar-agnostic visualizations and infographics. It is comprised of four modules\u2014a <strong>summarizer<\/strong> that converts data into a rich but compact natural language summary; a <strong>goal explorer<\/strong> that enumerates visualization goals given the data; a <strong>visgenerator<\/strong> that generates, evaluates, refines, executes, and filters visualization code; and an <strong>infographer<\/strong> module that yields data-faithful stylized graphics using IGMs. LIDA provides a python API and a hybrid user interface (direct manipulation and&nbsp;multilingual&nbsp;natural language) for interactive chart, infographics and data story generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--958ada7748701baea5b09d6b454efffc\"><a data-bi-type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/lida-automatic-generation-of-grammar-agnostic-visualizations-and-infographics-using-large-language-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a data-bi-type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.github.io\/lida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore the beta<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"new-release\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\">NEW RELEASE<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"announcing-deepspeed-chat-easy-fast-affordable-rlhf-training-of-chatgpt-like-models-at-all-scales\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcing DeepSpeed-Chat: Easy, fast, affordable RLHF Training of ChatGPT-like models at all scales<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s AI at Scale initiative has released <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/DeepSpeedExamples\/tree\/master\/applications\/DeepSpeed-Chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DeepSpeed-Chat<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, an easy, fast, and low-cost open-source solution for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) training that can create high-quality ChatGPT-like models ranging in size from a few to hundreds of billions of parameters. DeepSpeed-Chat provides complete RLHF training experience with a single click. It combines the prowess of DeepSpeed-Inference and DeepSpeed-Training to offer 15x faster throughput than the previous state of the art, while also supporting model sizes that are up to 8x larger on the same hardware. With DeepSpeed-Chat, practitioners can train an OPT-13B ChatGPT-like model in under 1.5 hours or a massive 175B model in a day on a modest GPU cluster. For those who don\u2019t have a GPU cluster handy, DeepSpeed-Chat enables practitioners to train up to a 13B model on a single GPU, or at $300 to train on Azure Cloud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-4 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill-github\"><a data-bi-type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/DeepSpeedExamples\/tree\/master\/applications\/DeepSpeed-Chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the code<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 id=\"news\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\">NEWS<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"gov4git-decentralized-community-governance-to-fuel-open-source-projects\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gov4git: Decentralized community governance to fuel open-source projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Communal open-source projects have helped build countless applications for sourcing and sharing information like bug details and scientific data, as well as decentralized planning, design and policymaking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the lack of a standardized and secure governance solution prevents many open-source projects from getting started\u2014and holds them back when they get too big to be managed through ad-hoc methods. These small communities often resort to external mechanisms to manage their projects and protect them from malicious actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Research and Protocol Labs, an open-source R&D company, are collaborating to develop Gov4git, a decentralized, git-native protocol with configurable governance rules to help launch more open-source projects and communities and support their growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov4git comes with many of the transparency, decentralization, and security benefits of blockchains while also harnessing the power of formal governance to avoid costly approaches to validation and dispute resolution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Git is the worldwide standard for version control and management of collaborative software development projects. Gov4git is designed as a secure and cost-effective framework solution which can be tailored to the specific needs of any one community and deployed by non-technical users anywhere where access to git is present. Gov4git can strengthen the security of such communities against the risks of malicious actors posing as collaborators with the intent to negatively impact community maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group msr-pattern-link-list is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 id=\"learn-more\" class=\"wp-block-heading h5\">Learn more:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-blog-post&p=928248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gov4git: A Decentralized Platform for Community Governance<\/a><br>Recent blog post<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/plural-technology-collaboratory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plural Technology Collaboratory<\/a><br>Microsoft Research group<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gov4git\/gov4git\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gov4git: Decentralized governance for Git communities<br><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>GitHub repository<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plurality.net\/v\/chapters\/ii\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plurality: Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy<br><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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