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Microsoft details Speller100, an AI system that checks spelling in over 100 languages
In a post on its AI research blog, Microsoft today detailed a new language system, Speller100, that the company claims is one of the most comprehensive ever made in terms of linguistic coverage and accuracy. Comprising a number of AI models…
VinVL: Advancing the state of the art for vision-language models
| Pengchuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans understand the world by perceiving and fusing information from multiple channels, such as images viewed by the eyes, voices heard by the ears, and other forms of sensory input. One of the core aspirations in AI is to develop…
Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…
Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future
Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they…
A Microsoft custom data type for efficient inference
| Bita Darvish Rouhani, Doug Burger, Eric Chung, Rangan Majumder, Sangeetha Shekar, Saurabh Tiwary, Sitaram Lanka, and Steve Reinhardt
AI is taking on an increasingly important role in many Microsoft products, such as Bing and Office 365. In some cases, it’s being used to power outward-facing features like semantic search in Microsoft Word or intelligent answers in Bing, and…
Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv2, tops XTREME leaderboard
| Saurabh Tiwary and Ming Zhou
Today, we are happy to announce that Turing multilingual language model (T-ULRv2) is the state of the art at the top of the Google XTREME public leaderboard. Created by the Microsoft Turing team in collaboration with Microsoft Research, the model…
In the news | SearchEngineLand
Bing applies AI and natural language models to autosuggest, People Also Ask
Bing is now using natural language generation models (models that generate text) to improve its autosuggest and People Also Ask (PAA) features, the company announced Wednesday. It is also expanding the use of natural language representation models to extend its…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft details how it improved Bing’s autosuggest recommendations with AI
Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products. AI at Scale chiefly bolstered the search…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing
Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions where these queries are issued.…