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In the news | Microsoft Innovation
Tech Minutes: Mastering Mahjong with AI
Discover how we developed Super Phoenix, a series of AI algorithmic breakthroughs, to navigate the uncertain nature of Mahjong. Presented by Junjie Li, Senior Research SDE at Microsoft Research Asia.
In the news | Azure Blog
Humana leverages Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to develop advanced predictive models
Trips to the hospital happen. And while everyone in the industry strives to deliver world-class care for in-patient experiences, everyone—patients and care teams alike, would prefer to avoid those stays at the hospital. The teams at Humana believed they had…
Awards | ICCV 2021
“Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows” receives ICCV 2021 Best Paper Award (Marr Prize)
Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows, received ICCV 2021 Best Paper Award (Marr Prize). The Microsoft Research co-authors include Yue Cao, Baining Guo, Han Hu, Steve Lin.
Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster
| Saurabh Tiwary and Lidong Zhou
Today, we are excited to announce that with our latest Turing universal language representation model (T-ULRv5), a Microsoft-created model is once again the state of the art and at the top of the Google XTREME public leaderboard. Resulting from a…
Microsoft Researchers Propose a Decentralized System for Anti-Piracy Incentivization Campaigns
Intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets for present-day companies, especially in the software, movie, gaming, and digital publishing industries. Anti-piracy is a long-lasting and heavily invested effort because piracy impacts the fundamental business models of these industries.…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft Translator releases literary Chinese translation
When reading ancient Chinese poetry, we often marvel at the very wonderful words ancient writers could use to describe people, events, objects, and scenes. This is a splendid cultural treasure that has been left behind for us. However, similar to Shakespeare’s verses in the English language,…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation
Tech Minutes: CodeBERT
A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages.
In the news | AI Lab
CoModGAN: AI-Powered Image Completion
CoModGAN is an image completion tool that uses AI to complete an image that is missing significant amounts of visual information. Two neural networks—a generator tasked with filing in missing information and a discriminator that analyzes the realism of the…
Transformer is well acknowledged to be the most powerful neural network in modelling sequential data, such as in natural language and speech. Model variants built upon Transformer have also shown great performance in computer vision and programming language. However, Transformer…