Microsoft Research Podcast

Abstracts: January 25, 2024

January 25, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga, Jordan Ash, and Dipendra Misra
On “Abstracts,” Jordan Ash & Dipendra Misra discuss the parameter reduction method LASER. Tune in to learn how selective removal of stored data alone can boost LLM performance, then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on LASER & related topics.
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    Abstracts: December 12, 2023 

    December 12, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga, Tao Qin, and Lijun Wu

    Members of the research community at Microsoft work continuously to advance their respective fields. Abstracts brings its audience to the cutting edge with them through short, compelling conversations about new and noteworthy achievements.  In this episode, Senior Principal Research Manager Tao Qin and Senior Researcher…

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    Abstracts: December 11, 2023 

    December 11, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Alessandro Sordoni

    By treating language models as layers in a network and prompts as learnable parameters, researchers aim for more adaptable, reusable LLM architectures. Check out the work in the “Abstracts” podcast series with guest Alessandro Sordoni and at #NeurIPS2023:

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    Abstracts: December 6, 2023 

    December 6, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Xing Xie

    "Abstracts”—your source for world-class research in brief—welcomes Senior Principal Research Manager Xing Xie to the podcast series to discuss his paper on evaluating general-purpose AI with psychometrics.

  4. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Desney Tan

    What’s Your Story: Desney Tan 

    November 16, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Desney Tan

    From service in the Singapore Armed Forces to autonomous navigation with NASA & VR with Disney, Desney Tan’s life journey hasn’t been linear. Learn how Tan landed at Microsoft & about the purpose guiding his work in the podcast series “What’s Your Story”.

  5. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Ranveer Chandra

    What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra 

    October 19, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Ranveer Chandra

    You may know tech, but how well do you know the people behind the advances? Ranveer Chandra talks about growing up in India, his work in systems and networking, and finding joy in your job in the first episode of the #MSRPodcast “What’s Your Story”.

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    Abstracts: October 9, 2023 

    October 9, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Sheng Zhang

    Researcher Dr. Sheng Zhang joins “Abstracts”—your source for cutting-edge research in brief—to discuss a recent paper on distilling large language models into smaller, more efficient ones capable of excelling in broad application classes.