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Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025 

May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.

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  1. Research Focus: May 07, 2025

    Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025 

    May 7, 2025

    In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.

  2. Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024 

    November 13, 2024

    Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.

  3. Research Focus | October 7, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024 

    October 9, 2024

    Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads.

  4. Research Focus: July 15, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of July 15, 2024 

    July 17, 2024

    Advancing time series analysis with multi-granularity guided diffusion model; An algorithm-system co-design for fast, scalable MoE inference; What makes a search metric successful in large-scale settings; learning to solve PDEs without simulated data.

  5. Research Focus: June 10, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of June 10, 2024 

    June 12, 2024

    In this issue: RELEVANCE automatically evaluates creative LLM responses; Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards; Lean Attention: Hardware-aware scalable attention mechanism; WaveCoder: a fine-tuned code LLM; New AutoGen training course.

  6. Research Focus: May 13, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024 

    May 15, 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. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to that created by people, proving…

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