An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.
213 episodes transcribedResearcher Jindong Wang and Associate Professor Steven Euijong Whang explore the NeurIPS 2024 work ERBench. ERBench leverages relational databases to...
Next-token prediction trains a language model on all tokens in a sequence. VP Weizhu Chen discusses his team’s 2024 NeurIPS paper on how distinguishin...
Can existing algorithms designed for simple reinforcement learning problems be used to solve more complex RL problems? Researcher Dylan Foster discuss...
Pranjal Chitale discusses the 2024 NeurIPS work CVQA. Spanning 31 languages and the cultures of 30 countries, this VQA benchmark was created with nati...
When Senior Principal Research Manager Nicole Immorlica discovered she could use math to make the world a better place for people, she was all in. She...
Research manager Karin Strauss and members of the DNA Data Storage Project reflect on the path to developing a synthetic DNA–based system for archival...
The efficient simulation of molecules has the potential to change how the world understands biological systems and designs new drugs and biomaterials....
Researcher Siddharth Suri and professor David Holtz give a brief history of prompt engineering, discuss the debate behind their recent collaboration,...
Researchers Chris Hawblitzel and Jay Lorch share how progress in programming languages and verification approaches are bringing bug-free software with...
In their 2024 SOSP paper, researchers explore a common—though often undertested—software system issue: retry bugs. Research manager Shan Lu and PhD ca...
Every year, interns from academic institutions around the world apply and grow their knowledge as members of the research community at Microsoft. In t...
The personalizable object recognizer Find My Things was recently recognized for accessible design. Researcher Daniela Massiceti and software developme...
College freshman Dexter Greene and Microsoft research manager Richard Black discuss how technology that stores data in glass is supporting students as...
Model maker and fabricator Lex Story helps bring research to life through prototyping. He discusses his take on failure; the encouragement and advice...
In this episode, Microsoft Product Manager Shrey Jain and OpenAI Research Scientist Zoë Hitzig join host Amber Tingle to discuss “Personhood credentia...
Researcher Brendan Lucier and professor Mert Demirer are applying their micro- and macroeconomic expertise, respectively, to forecasting the economic...
Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computati...
A lack of appropriate data, decreased model performance, and other obstacles have made it difficult to expand the input language models can receive. L...
Senior Researcher Arindam Mitra introduces AgentInstruct. Using raw data sources, the automated multi-agent framework can create diverse, high-quality...
Printed circuit boards are abundant—in the stuff we use and in landfills. Researcher Jake Smith and professor Aniruddh Vashisth discuss the developmen...
