Programming languages and software engineering
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
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Ideas: Bug hunting with Shan Lu
Struggles with programming languages helped research manager Shan Lu find her calling as a bug hunter. She discusses one bug that really haunted her, the thousands she’s identified since, and how she’s turning to LLMs…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.
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Debug-Gym
debug-gym is a text-based interactive debugging framework, designed for debugging Python programs.
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Accelerating Multilingual RAG Systems
As Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems gain prominence for grounding large language models (LLMs) in external knowledge, constructing evaluation frameworks is critical in accelerating developments across multiple diverse languages. This talk introduces a comprehensive multilingual RAG…
