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| Gretchen Huizinga, Brendan Lucier, 和 Mert Demirer
Researcher Brendan Lucier and professor Mert Demirer are applying their micro- and macroeconomic expertise, respectively, to forecasting the economic impact of AI. They share how they’re using a task-level breakdown of occupations to help predict the future.
How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.
Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever. Episode 2 of Microsoft Research Forum explores how AI is transforming health care and the natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies.
Jianfeng Gao, Sumit Gulwani, Nicole Immorlica, Stefan Saroiu, Manik Varma, and Xing Xie are among the new class of 68 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows for their transformative contributions to computing science and technology.
奖项 | Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
Nicole Immorlica, 2023 SAET Economic Theory Fellow
Economic Theory Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative achievement. The primary qualification for fellowship is to have substantially advanced economic theory.
ASL Citizen is the first crowdsourced sign language dataset, advancing the state of the art in sign recognition. The web-based project captured input from people in real-world settings, and from a diverse group of experts, including Deaf team members.
Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.
奖项 | MacArthur Foundation
Lester Mackey, 2023 MacArthur Fellow
Microsoft Research congratulates computer scientist and statistician Lester Mackey on his selection as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
新闻报道 | TechCrunch
Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
This week, Microsoft introduced a general-purpose framework, EvoDiff, that the company claims can generate “high-fidelity,” “diverse” proteins given a protein sequence. Different from other protein-generating frameworks, EvoDiff doesn’t require any structural information about the target protein, cutting out what’s typically…