Heading to #NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego? Microsoft has more than 150 accepted papers featuring cutting-edge research. Join us at exhibit hall booth #1703 for exciting talks and demos and to connect with Microsoft recruiters. And stay tuned to this channel for #MSFTatNeurIPS updates and exclusive content! https://msft.it/6040tkmXq
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At Microsoft Research, we accelerate scientific discovery and technology innovation to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We do this by bringing together the best minds across diverse disciplines and backgrounds to take on the most pressing research challenges for Microsoft and for society. Our Research Lens We consider research directions through the lens of the positive impact we aspire to create with and for customers, communities, and all of society.
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Project Gecko is revolutionizing AI by making it more inclusive, culturally relevant, and accessible. msft.it/6011trtP7 From smallholder farmers in India and Kenya to global communities, this Microsoft Research-led initiative is paving the way for AI that serves everyone. 🌍✨ Swipe to learn how AI-powered solutions are transforming agriculture, empowering local communities, and improving AI-driven outcomes →
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The Max Cut optimization problem, a concept that helps divide networks into two groups to maximize cross-connections, has applications far beyond theory. From logistics and chip design to financial services and DNA sequencing, optimization problems drive critical decisions. Emerging analog optical computing technology could make solving these problems faster and more energy-efficient, unlocking new possibilities for complex models.
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New research explores two ways to give AI agents stronger privacy safeguards grounded in contextual integrity. One adds lightweight, inference-time checks; the other builds contextual awareness directly into models through reasoning and RL: https://msft.it/6046tpZWI
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Fara-7B is our first agentic small language model for computer use. This experimental model includes robust safety measures to aid responsible deployment. Despite its size, Fara-7B holds its own against larger, more resource-intensive agentic systems: https://msft.it/6044tpZH0
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Coming December 9 at 8:00 AM PT, our last Microsoft Research Forum episode of the year: • A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - how neuroscience can enhance reasoning and reduce hallucinations (Ida Momennejad) • Publicly-verifiable elections – new cryptographic research enabling voters to confirm accurate counting of their votes (Josh Benaloh) • Tool-space interference - When adding tools to LLM agents have unintended consequences (Tyler Payne) • Accelerating MRI image reconstruction with Tyger – faster, more accessible medical imaging (Ilyana Rosenberg) • Data Formulator – an AI-powered interface to vibe with your data (Chenglong Wang) Register and tune in here: https://msft.it/6042tpVPI
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Short video on the power and promise of federally funded, curiosity-driven research, by the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery. Video: https://lnkd.in/gAntueTT Microsoft Research National Academy of Sciences Princeton University Margaret Martonosi Moshe Vardi Jim Kurose National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Keeping the Dream Alive: The Power and Promise of Federally Funded Research
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Every breakthrough starts with curiosity, and it's leading us to reimagine the future of technology. In our new series, Discovered at Microsoft, we’re exploring breakthrough innovations that are shaping what’s next. We head to the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, UK in episode 1 to learn about Analog Optical Computers, systems powered by light, redefining sustainable computing. 💡
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This week, we shared some of our most recent innovations from Microsoft Research with customers and partners at Microsoft #MSIgnite in San Francisco. We announced our new #vibekit for Aurora, MSR's foundation model of the earth system. This kit simplifies experimentation with Aurora by "educating" GitHub Copilot agent mode on the model, enhancing its ability to accelerate tasks such as tuning the model for weather prediction in a specific region. We also shared our Multimodal Critical Thinking Agent designed to enhance reasoning and analysis across a corpus of multimodal content. This innovation draws inspiration from the prevalent use of instructional videos in knowledge-sharing communities in India and Kenya. Explore these and other MSR innovations at aka.ms/foundrylabs. Shannon Monroe, Matt Corwine, Saumil Shrivastava, Marco Casalaina, Kenji Takeda, Tanuja Ganu, Jacki O'Neill, Akshay Nambi, Neeltje Berger
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