PIKE-RAG: Enabling industrial LLM applications with domain-specific data
A key challenge, and opportunity, of large language models (LLMs) is bridging the gap between their training data and the vast amount of unfamiliar information they encounter in real-world...
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When earthquakes hit, they often come with little warning. Each year, about 500,000 earthquakes ripple through the Earth—some are felt, many aren’t, but all are part of a complex and dynamic system...
View ArticleXiaofan Gui: Bridging abstract thinking with practical solutions
AI is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, yet the path from research breakthroughs to industry-ready solutions doesn’t happen overnight. Turning technical innovations into practical tools...
View ArticleA periodic table for machine learning
esearchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Google have introduced a “periodic table of machine learning” that stands to unify many different machine learning techniques using a single framework. Their...
View ArticleEureka Inference-Time Scaling Insights: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead
Authors: Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Lingjiao Chen, Shivam Garg, Neel Joshi, Yash Lara, John Langford, Besmira Nushi, Vibhav Vineet, Yue Wu, Safoora Yousefi Do reasoning capabilities of large...
View ArticleTeaching LLMs to think: Xian Zhang on advancing mathematical reasoning in AI
Math is more than a school subject—it’s the engine behind scientific discovery, driving advances in everything from climate modeling to AI. At Microsoft Research Asia, senior researcher Xian Zhang is...
View ArticleTimeDP: Creating cross-domain synthetic time-series data
Time-series data—measurements collected over time like stock prices or heart rates—plays a vital role in AI forecasting systems across industries. As these systems advance, the need for time-series...
View ArticleZero-shot evaluation reveals limitations of foundation models in single-cell...
Philip Rosenfield, Alex X. Lu, Ava P. Amini, Lorin Crawford, Kasia Z. Kedzierska Single-cell foundation models are an exciting paradigm for biologists, as they may accelerate the understanding of...
View ArticleMaaG: A new framework for consistent AI-generated games
World models are a key concept in AI, used to simulate how agents behave in virtual environments and enable immersive, interactive experiences. They’re not only transforming game and media generation,...
View ArticleTimeline: The continuing evolution of density functional theory
Scientific research is a continuous journey fueled by curiosity and collaboration, a conversation between scientists that often crosses continents and spans decades, with each new discovery inspired...
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