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Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4: The future of multimodal models, a new “small” language model, and other AI updates

September 26, 2024
Explore multimodal & small language models, plus advanced benchmarks for AI evaluation. Microsoft researchers are working on breakthroughs in weather prediction, materials design, even a new kind of computer for AI inference and hard optimization problems.
  1. Research Focus | September 23, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of September 23, 2024 

    September 25, 2024

    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. Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict future values based on previously observed data points over time.…

  2. A summary of insights extracted by using the Eureka framework, shown via two radar charts for multimodal (left) and language (right) capabilities respectively. The radar charts show the best and worst performance observed for each capability.

    Eureka: Evaluating and understanding progress in AI 

    September 17, 2024

    How can we rigorously evaluate and understand state-of-the-art progress in AI? Eureka is an open-source framework for standardizing evaluations of large foundation models, beyond single-score reporting and rankings. Learn more about the extended findings.

  3. Research Focus | September 9, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of September 9, 2024 

    September 12, 2024

    Investigating vulnerabilities in LLMs; A novel total-duration-aware (TDA) duration model for text-to-speech (TTS); Generative expert metric system through iterative prompt priming; Integrity protection in 5G fronthaul networks:

  4. Decorative graphic with wavy shapes in the background in blues and purples. Text overlay in center left reads: “Research Focus: August 26, 2024”

    Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024 

    August 28, 2024

    Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3;  WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.

  5. Research Focus: August 5, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of August 12, 2024 

    August 14, 2024

    In this issue: Research Forum Ep. 4 explores multimodal AI. Registration is now open; Surveying developers’ AI needs; SuperBench improves cloud AI infrastructure reliability; Virtual Voices: Exploring factors influencing participation in virtual meetings.

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