Predicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting: A new model and a new public dataset
It was crunch time, just as it had been many times before in the preceding weeks. Such is the nature of real-time competition. The yearlong Subseasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo was being sponsored by the Bureau…
Microsoft SEAL open source homomorphic encryption library gets even better for .NET developers!
Since its open-source release on December 3rd 2018, Microsoft SEAL has become one of the world’s most popular homomorphic encryption libraries and has been adopted by security and privacy professionals world-wide in both academia and…
Learning in Data Scarce Visual and Multimodal Applications Using Vectorized and Composable Representations
The vision and learning group at CVT (Center for Vision Technologies) at SRI has developed a framework and a suite of algorithms for machine learning in data scarce conditions. We present our results on zero…
Adversarial Benchmarks for Commonsense Reasoning
Human intelligence involves comprehending new situations through a rich model of the world. Given a single image from a movie, or a paragraph from a novel, we can easily infer people’s intentions, mental states, and…
Microsoft @ PPoPP/HPCA/CGO 2019
Microsoft is excited to be part of the PPoPP/HPCA/CGO 2019 co-located conferences and is a Gold sponsor of PPoPP 2019 and HPCA 2019. Stop by our booth to learn about our latest research and find…
Polarization Through the Lens of Learning Theory
What are the biases in my data?
One challenge with AI algorithmic fairness is that one usually has to know the potential group(s) that an algorithm might discriminate against in the first place. However, in joint work with Maria De-Arteaga, Nathaniel Swinger,…