Publicly verifiable elections
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A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs
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Data Formulator: Vibe with your data, in control
Data Formulator is an AI-powered tool for analysts to iteratively explore and visualize data.
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Accelerating MRI image reconstruction with Tyger
The Tyger framework enables faster, more accessible medical imaging by streaming raw data to the cloud for accelerated reconstruction—reducing patient wait times and discomfort—while empowering
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Tool-space Interference: An emerging problem for LLM agents
Tool-space interference occurs when adding an otherwise reasonable agent or tool to a team or agent reduces end-to-end task performance.
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Publicly-verifiable elections
Microsoft’s free, open-source ElectionGuard tools enable voters to verify their votes were accurately counted without compromising privacy or trusting election equipment or personnel.
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A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs
Inspired by human collective cognition and neuroscience, we conducted two studies showing that a) multi-LLM architectures with mixed communication connectivity lead to better collaborative
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Watch now: The last episode of Microsoft Research Forum of 2025
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Microsoft Research Forum | Season 2, Episode 2
Microsoft Research Forum is a virtual series highlighting purposeful research and its real-world impact, from fundamental exploration to advancing AI responsibly, scaling innovation through products
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Leveraging Loanword Constraints for Improving Machine Translation in Low-resource Settings
Translating from high-resource to low-resource languages like Emakhuwa remains a challenge due to limited parallel data, orthographic variation, and frequent loanwords and code-switching.
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Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI
As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution
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Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on healthcare economics, biomedical research, and medical education
For the series finale, Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Dr.
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Promptions
Promptions (“Prompt” plus “options”) dynamically generates UI to help users steer AI responses more effectively.
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Coming December 9th! Microsoft Research Forum | Season 2, Episode 2
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Spatial Audio Rendering for Speech Live Translation
Language barriers in virtual meetings remain a persistent challenge to global collaboration.
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Designing safe digital systems for the humanitarian sector
Speaker: Carmela Troncoso Host: Betül Durak In this talk we overview our collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross, in which we help them to digitalize their aid
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The Illusion of Inclusion How LLMs Misrepresent African Languages and Cultural Contexts
Multilingual LLMs have become so powerful, yet African languages remain misrepresented.
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Data Formulator v0.5: Vibe with data, in control
Data Formulator is an AI-powered visualization tool that helps analysts iteratively explore and visualize data from any source—clean or messy, small or large—without coding.
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Knowledge-Coin Fair Exchange
Fair exchange has been studied in computer science for many decades.
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Distant conversational speech recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
Host: Sunit Sivasankaran, Microsoft Research Speaker: Dr.
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Ultra Ethernet for next-generation AI and HPC workloads
Host: Sujata Banerjee Speakers: Torsten Hoefler, Microsoft and ETH Zurich; Abdul Kabbani, Microsoft The Ultra Ethernet Consortium set out to redefine Ethernet-based interconnects for AI and
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BRAIN SIGNALS TO ACTION: Monitoring and Explaining User Cognitive Load with Foundation Models
Host: Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Microsoft Research Speaker: Deeksha Moodasarige Shama Passive monitoring of cognitive load can enable personalized user experiences and even accelerate human learning
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IronDict: Transparent Dictionaries from Polynomial Commitments
Host: Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research Speaker: Hossein Hafezi, NYU We present IronDict, a transparent dictionary construction based on polynomial commitment schemes.
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Lattice-Based Accumulator and Application to Anonymous Credential Revocation
Host: Betül Durak, Microsoft Research Speaker: Victor Youdom Kemmoe An accumulator is a cryptographic system for compactly representing a set of elements such that every element in the set has a
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FOA Tokenizer: Learning Discrete Representations of Spatial Audio with Multichannel VQ-GAN
Host: Hannes Gamper, Microsoft Research Speaker: Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Tampere University Spatial audio captures the directional and environmental characteristics of sound, enabling immersive
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Efficient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning
Host: Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research Speaker: Varun Madathil, Yale University Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model by having each selected device push only its model update to a
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What does it mean to paraphrase a protein?
This explainer video unpacks the science behind paraphrasing a protein—a defining technique of Microsoft’s Paraphrase Project.
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Evaluating the Cultural Relevance of AI Models and Products: Insights from the YUX Team
How do we ensure that AI systems are not only technologically advanced but also deeply resonant and beneficial for the specific communities they aim to serve?
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Evaluating Privacy Policies under Modern Privacy Laws At Scale: An LLM-Based Automated Approach
Website privacy policies detail an online service's information practices, including how they handle user data and rights.
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