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PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
| Akshay Nambi and Tanuja Ganu
PromptWizard from Microsoft Research is now open source. It is designed to automate and simplify AI prompt optimization, combining iterative LLM feedback with efficient exploration and refinement techniques to create highly effective prompts in minutes.
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Pranjal Chitale
| Gretchen Huizinga and Pranjal Chitale
Pranjal Chitale discusses the 2024 NeurIPS work CVQA. Spanning 31 languages and the cultures of 30 countries, this VQA benchmark was created with native speakers and cultural experts to evaluate model performance across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.
Research Focus: Week of December 2, 2024
Can a new SOS-RMT protocol enable more efficient CL-MPC?; A fair-by-design, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform; LLM2CLIP unlocks richer visual representation; New technique enhances Low-Rank Adaptation’s expressiveness, generalization capabilities.
In the news | The Economic Times
AI: the access key to inclusion?
Microsoft Research India plans to expand its Shiksha Copilot, aimed at improving learning outcomes with engaging content, with multimodal, multilingual and multi-device dimensions to help teachers with vision impairments create lesson plans. “The possibilities for AI to positively impact accessibility…
In the news | Forbes India
Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon how AI and large language…
Microsoft Research Forum Episode 3: Globally inclusive and equitable AI, new use cases for AI, and more
“We’re at the very early stage of generative AI and the impacts it will have on work. This is a fast-moving field, and there’s an immense opportunity to take control of the agenda and build truly globally equitable AI systems”,…
Podcast: Evaluating LLMs using novel approaches. With Dr. Sunayana Sitaram
Episode 015 | May 21, 2024 [Music] Sunayana Sitaram: Our ultimate goal is to build evaluation systems and also other kinds of systems in general where humans and LLMs can work together. We’re really trying to get humans to do…
Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
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. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to…
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
| Kalika Bali and Gretchen Huizinga
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource…