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VeriTrail: Detecting hallucination and tracing provenance in multi-step AI workflows
| Dasha Metropolitansky
VeriTrail, new from Microsoft Research, can detect AI-generated content that is not supported by the source text, trace the provenance of content from final output back to the source, and locate where errors were likely introduced.
Technical approach for classifying human-AI interactions at scale
| Amber Hoak, David Tittsworth, Kate Lytvynets, Scott Counts, Weiwei Yang, Ben Cutler, and Jonathan McLean
Semantic Telemetry helps LLMs run efficiently, reliably, and in near real-time. Learn about the engineering behind that system, including the trade-offs and lessons learned along the way—from batching strategies to token optimization and orchestration.
Research Focus: Week of April 21, 2025
In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein talks rural healthcare innovation.
Claimify: Extracting high-quality claims from language model outputs
| Dasha Metropolitansky
Claimify, created by Microsoft Research, is a novel LLM-based claim-extraction method that outperforms prior solutions to produce more accurate, comprehensive, and substantiated claims from LLM outputs.
Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness
| Ginny Badanes, Madeleine Daepp, and Robert Osazuwa Ness
As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes discuss AI’s impact on democracy, including Daepp and Ness’s research into the tech’s use in Taiwan…
Moving to GraphRAG 1.0 – Streamlining ergonomics for developers and users
| Nathan Evans, Alonso Guevara Fernández, and Joshua Bradley
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.
Ideas: The journey to DNA data storage
| Karin Strauss, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith, and Sergey Yekhanin
Research manager Karin Strauss and members of the DNA Data Storage Project reflect on the path to developing a synthetic DNA–based system for archival data storage, including the recent open-source release of its most powerful algorithm for DNA error correction.
GraphRAG: New tool for complex data discovery now on GitHub
| Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, Steven Truitt, and Jonathan Larson
GraphRAG, a graph-based approach to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that significantly improves question-answering over private or previously unseen datasets, is now available on GitHub.
What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
| Johannes Gehrke and Weishung Liu
Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech.