eXperiment Tools (XT)
eXperiment Tools (XT) is a command line interface (CLI) and API for running, managing, and analyzing ML experiments. The goal of XT is to enable users to effortlessly organize and scale their ML experiments with…
ONNX Runtime
ONNX Runtime is a cross-platform inferencing and training accelerator compatible with many popular ML/DNN frameworks, including PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, scikit-learn, and more. aka.ms/onnxruntime
Graspologic
A graph, or network, provides a mathematically intuitive representation of data with some sort of relationship between items. For example, a social network can be represented as a graph by considering all participants in the…
What Kind of Computation is Human Cognition? A Brief History of Thought (Episode 2/2)
Since the naming of the field in 1956, AI has been dominated first by symbolic rule-based models, then early-generation neural (or “connectionist”) models, then probabilistic models operating over symbolic structures, and now deep learning models.…
ICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more
With over 50 papers from Microsoft accepted at this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020) (opens in new tab), a number of which were presented in virtual workshops, Microsoft researchers are in full…
Situated Interaction in the Open World: New Systems and Challenges
A presentation to the graduate seminar on AI at University of Washington, November 30, 2018. “In this talk, I will introduce a research effort we call “Situated Interaction,” in which we strive to design and…
Three new reinforcement learning methods aim to improve AI in gaming and beyond
Reinforcement learning (RL) provides exciting opportunities for game development, as highlighted in our recently announced Project Paidia (opens in new tab)—a research collaboration between our Game Intelligence group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and game developer…
Project Paidia: a Microsoft Research & Ninja Theory Collaboration
One goal of Project Paidia, a collaborative research project, is to drive state of the art research in reinforcement learning to enable game agents that learn to collaborate with human players.