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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

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RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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Shaping the future of content and collaboration in OneDrive and SharePoint The ODSP Applied Science team is shaping the future of content and collaboration by transforming OneDrive and SharePoint into a planet-scale, AI-native knowledge substrate,…

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Research Intern – Data Systems

Posted: November 4, 2025

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Data platforms and analytics, Search and information retrieval, Systems and networking

Data systems research at Microsoft Research (MSR) focuses on all aspects of large-scale data systems including query execution, data storage and indexing, resource management for cloud data platforms, data discovery, and data preparation techniques. Candidates…

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Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation

Liang Wang, Haonan Chen, Nan Yang, Xiaolong Huang, Zhicheng Dou, Furu Wei

NeurIPS 2025 | October 2025

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Microsoft Research India – The lab culture

September 30, 2025 | P. Anandan, Indrani Medhi Thies, B. Ashok, Sriram Rajamani, Vidhya Yella Reddy, Manik Varma, Kalika Bali, Jayashree Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan

Watch the founder, former and current leaders, and researchers at the Microsoft Research India lab talk about its unique culture. They reflect on their journeys, growth, and what makes the lab such a great place…

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Microsoft Research India – The evolution

September 30, 2025 | Venkat Padmanabhan, P. Anandan, Rick Rashid, Peter Lee, Doug Burger, Sriram Rajamani

Learn about Microsoft Research India’s journey from its inception to becoming a leading research center in computer science in India.

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Characterizing Deep Research: A Benchmark and Formal Definition

Abhinav Java, Ashmit Khandelwal, S. Midigeshi, Aaron L Halfaker, Amit Deshpande, Navin Goyal, Ankur Gupta, Nagarajan Natarajan, Amit Sharma

ICLR 2026 | August 2025

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Cognitive Loop via In-Situ Optimization: Self-Adaptive Reasoning for Science

Newman Cheng, Gordon Broadbent, William Chappell

August 2025

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DistributedANN: Efficient Scaling of a Single DiskANN Graph Across Thousands of Computers

Philip Adams, Menghao Li, Shi Zhang, Li Tan, Mingqin Li, Qi Chen, Knut Magne Risvik, Jason (Zengzhong) Li, Harsha Simhadri

The 1st Workshop on Vector Databases at the 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning | July 2025

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MOGIC: Metadata-Infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification

Suchith Chidananda Prabhu, Bhavyajeet Singh, Anshul Mittal, Siddarth Asokan, Shikhar Mohan, Deepak Saini, Yashoteja Prabhu, Lakshya Kumar, Jian Jiao, Amit Singh, Niket Tandon, Manish Gupta, Sumeet Agarwal, Manik Varma

ICML 2025 | July 2025

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System comparison using automated generation of relevance judgements in multiple languages

Paul Thomas, Douglas W Oard, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield

2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 2025

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