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| Gretchen Huizinga et Arindam Mitra

Senior Researcher Arindam Mitra introduces AgentInstruct. Using raw data sources, the automated multi-agent framework can create diverse, high-quality synthetic data at scale for the post-training of small and large language models.

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| Ahmed Awadallah, Andres Codas, Luciano Del Corro, Hamed Khanpour, Shweti Mahajan, Arindam Mitra, Hamid Palangi, Corby Rosset, Clarisse Simoes Ribeiro, et Guoqing Zheng

At Microsoft, we’re expanding AI capabilities by training small language models to achieve the kind of enhanced reasoning and comprehension typically found only in much larger models.

Dans l’actualité | VentureBeat

Even as the world bears witness to the power struggle and mass resignation at OpenAI, Microsoft, the long-time backer of the AI major, is not slowing down its own AI efforts. Today, the research arm of the Satya Nadella-led company…

An example of a multi-turn text-to-SQL task. The user query “Find the names of the top 3 highest sales books” corresponds to the formal program “SELECT title FROM book ORDER BY sale_amount DESC LIMIT 3”. The follow-up user query, “Who are their authors,” corresponds to the formal program “SELECT t1.title, t1.name FROM author AS t1 JOIN book AS t2 ON t1.id = t2.author_id ORDER BY t2.sale_amount DESC LIMIT 3”. In the corresponding database, there is an “Author” table with an “id” column, a “name” column, a “country” column, and an ellipsis signifying additional columns; a “Press” table with an “id” column, a “name” column, an “address” column, and an ellipsis signifying additional columns; and a “Book” table with an “id” column, a “title” column, an “author id” column, a “sale_amount” column, and an ellipsis signifying additional columns.
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| Alex Polozov, Chris Meek, et Ahmed Awadallah

One key aspiration of AI is to develop natural and effective task-oriented conversational systems. Task-oriented conversational systems use a natural language interface to collaborate with and support people in accomplishing specific goals and activities. They go beyond chitchat conversation. For…

Dans l’actualité | TheNextWeb

Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your…

Dans l’actualité | VentureBeat

In a [study] published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and Arizona State University researchers propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages engagement and social media signals to detect fake news.…

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| Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, et Andrey Kolobov

Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines, but they are also researching…