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. In this article NEW RESEARCH Causal Reasoning and Large Language Models: Opening a New Frontier for Causality Emre Kıcıman, Robert Ness, Amit Sharma, Chenhao Tan Recent  

This research paper was accepted by the eighth ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), which is a premier venue on IoT. The paper describes a framework that leverages cloud resources to execute large deep neural network (DNN) models with higher accuracy to improve the accuracy of models running on edge devices. Leveraging the cloud and edge concurrently The internet is evolving towards an edge-computing architecture to support latency-sensitive DNN workloads in the emerging Internet of  

Microsoft Editor provides AI-powered writing assistance to millions of users around the world. One of its features that writers of all levels and domains rely on is the grammar checker, which detects grammar errors in a user’s writing and offers suggested corrections and explanations of the detected errors. The technology behind grammar checker has evolved significantly since the 1970s, when the first-generation tool was based on simple pattern matching. A major breakthrough occurred in 1997, when Microsoft Word 97 introduced […]