Search and information retrieval
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Research talk: The science behind semantic search: How AI from Microsoft Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search
Azure Cognitive Search is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. As part of our AI at…
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Research talk: Learning and pretraining strategies for dense retrieval in search and beyond
In this talk, we’ll quickly go through our recent observations and findings with dense retrieval. First, we’ll recap the standard setup and training strategies for dense retrieval models in search. We’ll then share our recent…
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Keynote: Extreme classification for dense retrieval and personalized recommendation
Extreme classification is a new research area pioneered by scientists at Microsoft dealing with classification problems involving millions, or even billions, of categories. In this keynote, partner researcher Manik Varma demonstrates how extreme classification can…
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Research talk: Approximate nearest neighbor search systems at scale
Building deep learning-based search and recommendation systems at internet scale requires a complete redesign of the search index. Key to this redesign is a fast, accurate, and cost-efficient indexing system for approximate nearest neighbor search.…
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Research talk: Capturing the visual evolution of fashion in space and time
The fashion domain is a magnet for computer vision. New vision problems are emerging in step with the fashion industry’s rapid evolution towards an online, social, and personalized business. Style models, trend forecasting, and recommendation…
