Deep Learning, NLP, NMT, AI, ML
Today, we published an exploration of the power of prompting strategies that demonstrates how the generalist GPT-4 model can perform as a specialist on medical challenge problem benchmarks. The study shows GPT-4’s ability to outperform a leading model that was fine-tuned specifically for medical applications, on the same benchmarks and by a significant margin. These results are among other recent studies that show how prompting strategies
Read moreAdvent of Code is an online Advent calendar where you’ll find new programming puzzles offered each day from December 1 to 25. While you can solve the puzzles at any time, the excitement when new puzzles unlock is really something special. You can participate in Advent of Code in any programming language—including Python! With the help of this Code Conversation, you’ll be ready to start solving puzzles and earning your first gold stars. In this video course, you’ll learn: What […]
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Python’s Rich package is a tool kit that helps you generate beautifully formatted and highlighted text in the console. More broadly, it allows you to build an attractive text-based user interface (TUI). Why would you choose a TUI over a graphical user interface, or GUI? Sometimes a text display feels more appropriate. Why use a full-blown GUI for a simple application, when an elegant text interface will do? It can be refreshing to work with plain text. Text works in […]
Read moreThis research paper is being presented at the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (opens in new tab) (EMNLP 2023), the premier conference on natural language processing and artificial intelligence. In recent years, AI has been increasingly integrated into healthcare, bringing about new areas of focus and priority, such as diagnostics, treatment planning, patient engagement. While AI’s contribution in certain fields like image analysis and
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When you’re doing large scale data processing with Python, threads are a good way to achieve parallelism. This is especially true if you’re doing numeric processing, where the global interpreter lock (GIL) is typically not an issue. And if you’re using threading, thread pools are a good way to make sure you don’t use too many resources. But how many threads should your thread pool have? And do you need just one thread pool, or more than one? In this […]
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Wouldn’t it be cool to build a Python game that only requires initial user input and then seems to take on a mind of its own, creating mesmerizing patterns along the way? You can do exactly that with Conway’s Game of Life, which is about the evolution of cells in a life grid. Implementing the Game of Life algorithm is a good exercise with many interesting challenges that you’ll have to figure out. Specifically, you’ll need to build the life […]
Read moreWelcome 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 PIT: Optimization of Dynamic Sparse Deep Learning Models via Permutation Invariant Transformation Dynamic sparsity is a technique used in machine learning to reduce computational and memory requirements while maintaining or improving performance. This can be particularly useful when computational resources are limited, such as
Read moreIn Python Basics: Modules and Packages, you learned how to build an application by putting related code into separate files called modules. You also used the import statement to use modules in another file. In this video course, you’ll practice: Creating your own modules Using modules in another file through the import statement Organizing several modules into a package with __init__.py Along the way, you’ll also get some insight into how to tackle coding challenges in general, which can be […]
Read moreA few months ago, we introduced Orca, a 13-billion language model that demonstrated strong reasoning abilities by imitating the step-by-step reasoning traces of more capable LLMs. Orca 2 is the latest step in our efforts to explore the capabilities of smaller LMs (on the order of 10 billion parameters or less). With Orca 2, we continue to show that improved training signals and methods can empower smaller language models to achieve enhanced reasoning abilities, which are typically found only in […]
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One of Django’s most popular features is the admin interface. For developers, it provides an out-of-the-box tool kit to work with your project’s data models. And it gives non-technical administrators an intuitive user interface (UI) for interacting with the database and creating website content. However, the Django admin doesn’t provide a way to format text-based content. Using Markdown with Django is a great solution. Markdown is a plain text formatting language that can automatically convert to HTML for publishing on […]
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