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Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025

May 7, 2025

In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.

Publication

PolySAT: Word-level Bit-vector Reasoning in Z3

Jakob Rath, Clemens Eisenhofer, Daniela Kaufmann, Nikolaj Bjørner, Laura Kov'acs

International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE 2024) | May 2025

Publication

Automated Service Design with Cerulean (Project Showcase)

Vaastav Anand, Alok Kumbhare, Celine Irvene, Chetan Bansal, Gagan Somashekar, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Ricardo Bianchini, Rodrigo Fonseca

2025 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence & AIOps (AIOps) | May 2025, pp. 1-3

Publication

RAPGen: An Approach for Fixing Code Inefficiencies in Zero-Shot

Spandan Garg, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam, Neel Sundaresan

2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP) | April 2025, pp. 124-135

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Aqua: Automatic Quantization

Project Aqua develops tools for automatic quantization of LLMs TBD

Publication

Towards Neural Synthesis for SMT-Assisted Proof-Oriented Programming

Saikat Chakraborty, Gabriel Ebner, Siddharth Bhat, Sarah Fakhoury, Sakina Fatima, Shuvendu Lahiri, Nikhil Swamy

International Conference on Software Engineering | April 2025

Access Access Project

Publication

3DGen: AI-Assisted Generation of Provably Correct Binary Format Parsers

Sarah Fakhoury, Markus Kuppe, Shuvendu Lahiri, Tahina Ramananandro, Nikhil Swamy

International Conference on Software Engineering | April 2025

Project

Publication

Local Prompt Optimization

Yash Jain, Vishal Chowdhary

April 2025

Oral

Oral presentation – Main Conference

Publication

Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers’ Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era

Sukrit Kumar, Drishti Goel, Tom Zimmermann, Brian Houck, B. Ashok, Chetan Bansal

ICSE SEIP ’25 | April 2025

Distinguished Paper Award

Publication

Reinforcement Learning from Automatic Feedback for High-Quality Unit Test Generation

Benjamin Steenhoek, Michele Tufano, Neel Sundaresan, Alexey Svyatkovskiy

DeepTest (ICSE Workshop) | April 2025