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Awards | IEEE
3 Microsoft researchers elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2021
Steve Hodges, Ivan Tashev and Tom Zimmermann were elevated to the level of IEEE Fellow for 2021. The accomplishments that are being honored are a result of important contributions that led to the advancement or application of engineering, science and…
Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge distillation, and self-distillation
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li
Under now-standard techniques, such as over-parameterization, batch-normalization, and adding residual links, “modern age” neural network training—at least for image classification tasks and many others—is usually quite stable. Using standard neural network architectures and training algorithms (typically SGD with momentum), the…
VinVL: Advancing the state of the art for vision-language models
| Pengchuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans understand the world by perceiving and fusing information from multiple channels, such as images viewed by the eyes, voices heard by the ears, and other forms of sensory input. One of the core aspirations in AI is to develop…
Awards | ACM
4 Microsoft Researchers named Fellows of the ACM
Andy Gordon, Dave Maltz, Meredith Ringel Morris and Tony Hoare (retired Microsoft) were named as one of the 95 2020 ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. Andy is recognized for his contributions to programming languages: their principles, logic, usability,…
Awards | Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation
Top project in Azure All Hands 2021
Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…
Awards | British Computer Society
Ahmed Awadallah awarded the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award
Ahmed Awadallah received the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award (opens in new tab) presented by the British Computer Society (BCS). This award is given to researchers within 10 years of their PhD who have contributed significantly to information retrieval and/or…
In the news | Adafruit
Expressive Pixels for Adafruit Matrix Portal
In this guide, you will connect the Expressive Pixels Windows app with an Adafruit Matrix Portal RGB LED matrix panel to: display dazzling animations on the RGB LED matrix, save images directly to the Matrix Portal using its built-in flash…
NeurIPS 2020: Moving toward real-world reinforcement learning via batch RL, strategic exploration, and representation learning
As human beings, we encounter unfamiliar situations all the time—learning to drive, living on our own for the first time, starting a new job. And while we can anticipate what to expect based on what others have told us or…