Over the past two decades, Microsoft Research India has achieved an extraordinary record of innovation—in areas ranging from health and education to agriculture and accessibility.
Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
| Chris Stetkiewicz and Akshay Nambi
Advances in AI are driving meaningful real-world impact. Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi shares how his passion for tackling real-world challenges across various domains fuels his work in building reliable and robust AI systems.
In the news | Microsoft Source Asia
Chasing peak sugar: India’s sugar cane farmers use AI to predict weather, fight pests and optimize harvests
The technology brings in weather, soil and other data from satellites as well as farm sensors onto a Microsoft data platform called Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (previously called FarmBeats), so farmers can see precisely what’s happening at their farm…
PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
| Akshay Nambi and Tanuja Ganu
PromptWizard from Microsoft Research is now open source. It is designed to automate and simplify AI prompt optimization, combining iterative LLM feedback with efficient exploration and refinement techniques to create highly effective prompts in minutes.
We’re excited to be a part of #NeurIPS2024! Explore the future of AI with over 100 groundbreaking papers, including oral and spotlight sessions, on reinforcement learning, advanced language model training, and multilingual, culturally inclusive benchmarks.
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Pranjal Chitale
| Gretchen Huizinga and Pranjal Chitale
Pranjal Chitale discusses the 2024 NeurIPS work CVQA. Spanning 31 languages and the cultures of 30 countries, this VQA benchmark was created with native speakers and cultural experts to evaluate model performance across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.
Research Focus: Week of December 2, 2024
Can a new SOS-RMT protocol enable more efficient CL-MPC?; A fair-by-design, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform; LLM2CLIP unlocks richer visual representation; New technique enhances Low-Rank Adaptation’s expressiveness, generalization capabilities.
In the news | The Economic Times
AI: the access key to inclusion?
Microsoft Research India plans to expand its Shiksha Copilot, aimed at improving learning outcomes with engaging content, with multimodal, multilingual and multi-device dimensions to help teachers with vision impairments create lesson plans. “The possibilities for AI to positively impact accessibility…
In the news | Forbes India
Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon how AI and large language…