The story of an Office AI feature: How AI can promote efficient meeting preparation
Adam Troy had an idea. He was spending so much time searching through old emails and attachments to prepare for meetings: Could AI help him be better prepared for meetings? Could machine learning automatically identify…
Microsoft @ ICML 2018
Microsoft is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the Thirty-fifth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) July 10, 2018 – July 15, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. With twenty-six accepted papers, a tutorial and two…
Thompson Sampling for Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval
Traditionally, machine learning based approaches to information retrieval have taken the form of supervised learning-to-rank models. Recent advances in other machine learning approaches—such as adversarial learning and reinforcement learning—should find interesting new applications in future…
Execution-Guided Neural Program Decoding
Microsoft @ SIGIR 2018
SIGIR is a major international forum for presentation of the latest state-of-the-art research and demonstration of new systems and methods for connecting people with information: from Web search engines, recommender systems, and social network technology…