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Meet BioEmu-1 from Microsoft Research. This deep learning model can generate thousands of protein structures per hour, unlocking new possibilities for protein scientists and drug discovery and research. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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With the unveiling of the first quantum processor powered by topological qubits, Microsoft is redefining quantum computing. In “Ideas,” Dr. Chetan Nayak discusses Microsoft Quantum’s recent advances, the need for quantum computers, and more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Nature published Microsoft research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We're releasing the model weights, sample data & WHAM Demonstrator on Azure AI Foundry to enable researchers to build on this work. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Aseem Rastogi & Pantazis Deligiannis will cover two technical results from ICSE'2025 on using Large Language Models (LLMs) for safe low-level programming. Register and tune in on February 25: researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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Learn about Magma, a new multimodal agentic foundation model designed for UI navigation in digital environments and robotics manipulation in physical settings with Jianwei Yang at Microsoft Research Forum on February 25. Register here: researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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Since its launch two decades ago, Microsoft Research India produced extraordinary innovation in areas from health and education to agriculture and accessibility. Learn about the lab’s track record of technological advances: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Limited resources, geography, and economic factors present barriers to quality education for many students in India. Learn how Microsoft Research is collaborating with Physics Wallah to make AI-based tutoring more accurate, reliable, and affordable: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Microsoft Research congratulates Nicolas Bruno on being named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member for his contributions to query optimization and physical design tuning in relational database systems. www.acm.org/media-center...

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Join us on February 25 at Microsoft Research Forum. Marwin Segler will address the chemical synthesis in drug discovery with a learning-to-rank framework that integrates AI-based models, significantly boosting prediction accuracy and preferred by chemists. researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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Data Formulator from @msftresearch.bsky.social is currently the top trending repo on @github.com! Have you tried the no-code, AI-driven, data visualization tool? >> github.com/microsoft/da...

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ExACT combines Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning to improve AI agents' decision-making, enabling test-time compute scaling. Learn how these methods help agents refine strategies for state-of-the-art performance and improved computational efficiency: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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AutoGen update! On Feb 25, Gagan Bansal will introduce a transformative update that builds on user feedback and redefines modularity, stability, and flexibility to empower the next generation of agentic AI research and applications. Register here: researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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Researcher Akshay Nambi draws inspiration from real-world challenges to design and build AI-driven technology. In “Ideas,” he shares how systems thinking helps him create solutions that drive meaningful, population-scale impact. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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On February 25, John Langford will showcase a new transformer architecture that generates compact belief states for goal-conditioned planning, enhancing planning algorithms' efficiency and effectiveness. Register here: researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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We're hosting a panel discussion at Microsoft Research Forum on February 25, exploring the transformative potential of generative AI in learning the language of nature and patients for precision health. Register here: researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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Keynote speaker, Hoifung Poon from Microsoft Health Futures, will introduce an agenda in precision health, utilizing generative AI to pretrain high-fidelity patient embeddings from multimodal, longitudinal patient journeys. Register here: researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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Advances in low-bit quantization techniques enable efficient operation of LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices. Discover how innovations like T-MAC, Ladder, and LUT Tensor Core improve computational efficiency and enhance hardware compatibility: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Join us on February 25 for a new episode of Microsoft Research Forum where we share the latest updates on multimodal generative AI for precision health, advances in drug discovery and agents, & delve into cutting-edge AI techniques for programming safety. researchforum.microsoft.com?OCID=MSR_res...

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In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Struggles with programming languages helped Shan Lu find her calling as a bug hunter. In “Ideas,” she discusses one bug that really haunted her, the thousands she’s identified since, and how she’s turning to LLMs to help make software more reliable. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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As generative AI evolves, so do the risks. Microsoft provides comprehensive tools to help developers build secure and reliable AI applications. Learn how we prioritize safety and security in AI development. news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

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Microsoft Research congratulates Wei Chen and Ben Zorn on being named 2024 ACM Fellows—Wei for contributions to network influence maximization and combinatorial online learning, and Ben for contributions to programming language systems. www.acm.org/media-center...

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Researchers pull back the curtain on MatterGen and MatterSim, the cutting-edge tools reshaping how we design and innovate advanced materials. Explore the journey from concept to creation driving these AI-powered technologies. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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This week on the Microsoft Research Podcast “Ideas,” researchers Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu discuss MatterGen and MatterSim, AI tools reshaping materials discovery. Learn how they aim to transform science and sustainability. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Announcing AutoGen 0.4, fully reimagined library for building advanced agentic AI systems, developed to improve code quality and robustness. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture is designed to support dynamic, scalable workflows. Learn more: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Microsoft Research looks forward to collaborating with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to nurture talent, revolutionize smart health care, and drive advances in enabling research. hkust.edu.hk/news/institu...

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Scientists across the world are racing to crack the wheat genome, crucial for 20% of global calories. With climate change affecting harvests, this is a survival mission. Azure’s supercomputing is enabling unprecedented data sharing and collaboration. news.microsoft.com/source/emea/...

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Microsoft Research congratulates Yasuyuki Matsushita on being named a 2025 IEEE Fellow for his outstanding contributions to photometric 3D modeling and computational photography. www.computer.org/press-room/2...

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Microsoft Research did extraordinary work this year, using AI and scientific research to make progress on real-world challenges like climate change, food security, global health, and human trafficking. Learn more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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2024 was the “biggest election year in history.” Inspired by the moment, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness set out to document generative AI’s use in major elections. They share what they found with Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Microsoft researchers contributed to USC Annenberg’s 2025 Relevance Report: AI Activated. Their essay, "AI as a Tool for Thought," explores how genAI can enhance human cognition beyond content creation. Read this and other essays from leading experts: issuu.com/uscannenberg...

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From new learnings within their own field to a new appreciation for building end-to-end prototypes, takeaways from working on the DNA Data Storage Project have impacted team members’ approaches to research more broadly. Learn how in “Ideas.” www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Discover how LLMs can help provide critical insights into supply chains, answer “what-if” scenarios, and adapt tools to today's business realities. Read the HBR article from Microsoft and collaborators: hbr.org/2025/01/how-...

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NeoMem: hardware/software co-design for CXL-native memory tiering; Chimera: accurate retrosynthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse inductive biases; GA4GH task execution API enables multicloud task execution: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Just after his NeurIPS 2024 keynote on the co-evolution of systems and AI, Microsoft CVP Lidong Zhou joined podcast guest host Eliza Strickland of IEEESpectrum to discuss how rapidly advancing AI impacts the systems supporting it and more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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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. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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In this special edition of the podcast, Microsoft Technical Fellow & Director Chris Bishop talks with guest host Eliza Strickland of IEEESpectrum at NeurIPS 2024 about how AI is changing scientific discovery & the profound impact it can have on the world. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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GraphRAG helps advance AI use in complex domains like science. Thanks to enthusiastic adoption and community engagement, we’ve upgraded the pre-release version. Check out the major ergonomic and structural updates in GraphRAG 1.0: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Researcher Jindong Wang and Associate Professor Steven Euijong Whang explore the NeurIPS 2024 work ERBench. ERBench leverages relational databases to create LLM benchmarks that can verify model rationale via keywords as well as check answer correctness. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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In their 2024 NeurIPS paper on RL under latent dynamics, researchers examine whether existing algorithms designed for simple RL problems can be used to solve more complex RL problems. Dylan Foster discusses the modular approach his team explored. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Pranjal Chitale discusses the 2024 NeurIPS work CVQA. Spanning 31 languages & the cultures of 30 countries, this VQA benchmark was created with native speakers & cultural experts to evaluate model performance across diverse linguistic & cultural contexts. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Microsoft Research congratulates the PRISM Alignment Dataset team for their NeurIPS 2024 best paper award in the datasets & benchmarks track. This work was supported in part by Accelerating Foundation Models Research and Azure AI Services. aka.ms/AAtqkdw

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In Vancouver for hashtag#NeurIPS2024? Join us Thursday @ 1 PM PT in Booth #445 for a LIVE recording of the Microsoft Research Podcast feat. Lidong Zhou and Chris Bishop in conversation with guest host IEEE Spectrum's Eliza Strickland. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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In “Abstracts,” VP Weizhu Chen discusses his team’s paper on how distinguishing between useful and “noisy” tokens during pretraining can improve token efficiency and model performance. The work was recognized as a best paper runner-up at NeurIPS 2024. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Explore Microsoft @ #NeurIPS2024 with our AI assistant. Discover the work presented by Microsoft research teams, organized by topic. Gain insights into key trends and trajectories shaping AI research. Discover cutting-edge advances in AI: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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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: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Christopher Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI for Science, discusses how the deep learning technology that underpins the AI revolution is advancing at an extraordinary pace. youtu.be/lB3K4pk5jN4?...

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Microsoft Research and collaborators developed an AI-powered, near-real-time global carbon budget method, reducing the lag in analysis from one year to three months. Learn how it revealed a dramatic decline in the global land carbon sink in 2023: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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