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Research Focus: Week of June 5, 2023
In this issue: Peter Lee discusses AI in medicine. Plus, new research on data inference privacy in machine learning; PII leakage in language models; and automatic prompt organization with gradient descent and beam search.
Awards | AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity” by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson
Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
Microsoft at EuroSys 2023: Systems innovation across the stack to help support an easier, faster, safer, and smarter cloud
| Rodrigo Fonseca
EuroSys 2023 (opens in new tab) is the premier systems conference in Europe, and 2023 marks its 18th edition. Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS Europe and hosted May 8 to May 12, the conference covers a wide range of topics, including…
Using generative AI to imitate human behavior
| Tim Pearce, Tabish Rashid, Anssi Kanervisto, Dave Bignell, Mingfei Sun, Raluca Stevenson, Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Shanzheng Tan, Ida Momennejad, Katja Hofmann, and Sam Devlin
Diffusion models have been used to generate photorealistic images and short videos, compose music, and synthesize speech. In a new paper, Microsoft Researchers explore how they can be used to imitate human behavior in interactive environments.
Hunting speculative information leaks with Revizor
| Boris Köpf and Oleksii Oleksenko
Spectre and Meltdown are two security vulnerabilities that affect the vast majority of CPUs in use today. CPUs, or central processing units, act as the brains of a computer, directing the functions of its other components. By targeting a feature…
Research Focus: Week of April 10, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…
Research Focus: Week of February 6, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In the latest episode of Behind the Tech, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott…
Awards | Views: Compositional reasoning for concurrent programs
Views paper wins “Most Influential POPL 2013 paper”