How good is good enough for COVID19 apps?
Learning to rank via combining representations
ALICE
Alice is a project to direct Artificial Intelligence towards economic decision making. We are building tools that combine state-of-the-art machine learning with econometrics – the measurement of economic systems — in order to bring automation…
Fairness and interpretability in AI: Putting people first
At the 2005 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, researcher Hanna Wallach found herself in a unique position—sharing a hotel room with another woman. Actually, three other women to be exact. In the previous years…
AI at Scale
AI at Scale is an applied research initiative that works to evolve Microsoft products with the adoption of deep learning for both natural language text and image processing. Our work is actively being integrated into…
ZeRO-2 & DeepSpeed: Shattering barriers of deep learning speed & scale
In February, we announced DeepSpeed, an open-source deep learning training optimization library, and ZeRO (Zero Redundancy Optimizer), a novel memory optimization technology in the library, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed,…