CHANG LIU: Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity to share our work.  HUIZINGA: So in a few sentences, tell us about the issue or problem your paper addresses and why people should care about this research.  LIU: Sure. Since this is an AI4Science work, let’s start from this perspective. About science, people always want to understand the properties of matters, such as why some substances can cure disease and why some materials are heavy or conductive. For a very […]

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. NEW RESEARCH Fewer is More: Boosting LLM Reasoning with Reinforced Context Pruning Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities, yet they still struggle with math reasoning. In a recent paper: Fewer is More: Boosting LLM Reasoning with Reinforced Context Pruning, researchers from Microsoft propose CoT-Influx, a  

In the evolving field of software development, professionals are increasingly adopting a modern approach known as service-oriented architecture to enhance the scalability and flexibility of their services and applications. Often utilizing a microservices approach, developers construct software as a collection of small, independently functioning services. This method is particularly advantageous for developing cloud-based software, as it offers numerous benefits over the traditional monolithic architectures, including the ability to separately develop, deploy, and scale individual components of an application. Nevertheless, this […]

Researchers at Microsoft have been working for nearly a decade to address the increasing demand for data storage mechanisms to support the rapid advances in interactive web applications and services. Our new cache-store system called Garnet, which offers several advantages over legacy cache-stores, has been deployed in multiple use cases at Microsoft, such as those in the Windows & Web Experiences Platform, Azure Resource Manager, and Azure