Jacki O'Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O'Neill talks about the choices that got her the...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/whats-your-story-jacki-oneill/
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. Larg...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/research-focus-week-of-may-13-2024/
From immersive virtual experiences to interactive design tools, Microsoft Research is at the frontier of exploring how people engage with technology. Discover our latest breakthroughs in human-co...
RASCAL is an untethered robot with a modular design, allowing it to move flexibly along and between evenly spaced storage shelves. Discover how it can address the availability and scalability cha...
Property prediction for materials under realistic conditions has been a long-standing challenge within the digital transformation of materials design. MatterSim investigates atomic interactions f...
Autoscaling can optimize cloud resource usage and costs by adjusting to demand. VASIM shows that simplifying testing and refinement of autoscaling algorithms can enable rapid development and eval...
LLMs rely on memory-intensive mechanisms like the key-value (KV) cache to store and quickly retrieve data. FastGen optimizes KV cache usage, reducing LLM memory demands by up to 50% while maintai...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/llm-profiling-guides-kv-cache-optimization/
LoftQ boosts LLM efficiency by streamlining the fine-tuning process, reducing computational demands while preserving high performance. Innovations like this can help make AI technology more energ...
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 ...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/abstracts-may-6-2024/
In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performan...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/research-focus-week-of-april-29-2024/