Microsoft Research blog
AI for AI: Metareasoning for modular computing systems
| Debadeepta Dey
A new document in a word processor can be a magical thing, a blank page onto which thoughts and ideas are put forth as quickly as we can input text. We can select words and phrases to underline and highlight…
By making text-based games more accessible to RL agents, Jericho framework opens up exciting natural language challenges
| Matthew Hausknecht, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Eric Yuan, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
You’re in a field. In front of you, there’s a white house. The door is boarded shut. The immediate challenge—investigate the house. The game—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, a treasure-seeking adventure in which you’ll encounter monsters, a thief, and…
Expanding scene and language understanding with large-scale pre-training and a unified architecture
| Hamid Palangi
Making sense of the world around us is a skill we as human beings begin to learn from an early age. Though there is still much to know about the process, we can see that people learn a lot, both…