Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
Webinar
Mixed reality and robotics: Unlocking more intuitive human-machine collaboration webinar
In this webinar, join Jeff Delmerico and Helen Oleynikova, Senior Scientists at the Mixed Reality and AI Zurich Lab, in exploring how mixed reality (MR)—which blends the digital world with the physical one—can be used…
Video
The actors behind Flash Fill
Sumit acknowledges 5 sets of people in this 5-minute award acceptance talk for his “most influential” POPL 2011 paper, which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel. He shares inside stories…
Video
The story of Flash Fill and (how it shaped) me
On the occasion of receiving the most influential test-of-time paper award for his POPL 2011 paper (which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel), Sumit shares stories related to his inspiration…
Tool
LayoutLM
LayoutLM is a simple but effective multi-modal pre-training method of text, layout, and image for visually-rich document understanding and information extraction tasks, such as form understanding and receipt understanding. LayoutLM archives the SOTA results on…
Microsoft Research Blog
Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge distillation, and self-distillation
Under now-standard techniques, such as over-parameterization, batch-normalization, and adding residual links, “modern age” neural network training—at least for image classification tasks and many others—is usually quite stable. Using standard neural network architectures and training algorithms…
Project
ezPitch: Connecting Salespersons and Customers through Relevant News
The goal of ezPitch is connecting salespersons and customers through relevant news. Why is this important? In the daily work, the sales persons need to search, track and explore the related news about customers before…