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Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are moving beyond their original and main applications as rehabilitation technologies, to become promising tools for interacting with users by measuring their mental

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Dion2 reduces the cost of Muon’s orthonormalization step by orthonormalizing only a small, selected submatrix at each iteration.

OptiMind is a specialized language model that translates natural-language problem descriptions directly into solver-ready mathematical optimization formulations.

As AI agents move from isolated tools to active participants in multi-agent ecosystems, their success depends on more than task competence—it requires strategic behavior under misaligned incentives

Agent Lightning is an agent optimization framework that enables agents to learn from their experiences through reinforcement learning and other methods.

HealthBots pair LLMs with rapid expert verification to deliver trusted medical guidance at scale.

We present Adaptively Rotated Optimization (ARO), a matrix optimizer that speeds up LLM training by applying updates in a rotated, geometry-aware coordinate system.

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Technical advances are moving at such a rapid pace that it can be challenging to define the tomorrow we’re working toward.

Swahili has become one of the most consistently represented African languages in modern AI benchmarks, spanning machine translation, language modeling, and multilingual evaluation suites, far

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has evolved from Gentry’s original blueprint into a diverse family of practical schemes, including BGV/BFV for exact arithmetic, DM/CGGI-style schemes for fast

Quantum computing is no longer a distant dream, its rapid progress is poised to revolutionize various fields from drug discovery to optimization.

Rapid access to actionable geospatial insights is essential during disasters such as floods, wildfires, or earthquakes, where timely decisions can save lives and resources.

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Speaker: Amey Shukla, University of Connecticut Host: Melissa Chase Despite decades of effort, a chasm existed between the theory and practice of device-level biometric authentication.

Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.

We were delighted to host a fabulous talk from the founder of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid!

AI models are increasingly capable of solving sophisticated tasks that require reasoning. But how do we improve the quality of that reasoning, especially when the models operate as black boxes?

Geospatial Foundation Models – deep learning architectures trained on large-scale Earth observation and remote sensing data – have proved useful for object detection, semantic segmentation, and

A brilliant 13‑year‑old innovator, Pranav, showcases his award‑winning robotics projects from the World Robot Olympiad.

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Fundamental research is the source of all innovation, and Microsoft Research Asia is dedicated to defining new computing paradigms and unlocking long-term breakthroughs.

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