AI meets PL
In this area of research, we broadly explore combining machine learning and program synthesis in various ways. This is an umbrella project that has spawned several projects exploring applications of such a combination in different…
Microsoft at POPL 2022
Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of POPL 2022 taking place virtually on January 16-22, 2022.
SolType: Refinement Types for Solidity
Project Jigsaw
Large Language Models meet Program Synthesis Large pre-trained language models such as GPT-3, Codex, and Google’s language model are now capable of generating code from natural language specifications of programmer intent. We view these developments…
AI Tooling and MLOps
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), has been widely adopted in many application domains, such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and gaming. However, developers…
HEAT: Hyperedge Attention Networks
Green Cloud Computing
We are actively pursuing a sustainable form of cloud computing, Green Cloud Computing, to reduce the energy consumption and cut down carbon emission accordingly.
Provably correct, asymptotically efficient, higher-order reverse-mode automatic differentiation
This keynote by Simon Peyton Jones was recorded at Haskell eXchange 2021 on 16 November 2021: Automatic differentiation is all the rage these days, largely because it is a key enabler for machine learning. But…
Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some…