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Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024
In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.
In the news | The Stack
‘Enormous business potential’: Microsoft on why GraphRAG outperforms naive RAG
Redmond opens up to discuss its new tool, which can extract data from unstructured text using large language models. Microsoft’s GraphRAG is a new approach to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that Redmond has described a “significant advance in enhancing the capability…
Tracing the path to self-adapting AI agents
| Ching-An Cheng, Adith Swaminathan, and Allen Nie
Introducing Trace, Microsoft and Stanford University’s novel AI optimization framework, now available as a Python library. Trace adapts dynamically and optimizes a wide range of applications from language models to robot control.
Awards | MistyWest
Tusher Chakraborty named a Misties Top 20 Winner
Tusher Chakraborty was recognized for the contributions to enabling data-driven farming, influencing FCC to adopt regulations on IoT in TV White Spaces, and pioneering research in satellite-based IoT communications. The Misties Awards are for top 20 individual leaders who are…
Abstracts: July 18, 2024
| Gretchen Huizinga and Arindam Mitra
Senior Researcher Arindam Mitra introduces AgentInstruct. Using raw data sources, the automated multi-agent framework can create diverse, high-quality synthetic data at scale for the post-training of small and large language models.
Research Focus: Week of June 24, 2024
In this issue: RENC makes 5G vRAN servers more energy efficient; CoExplorer uses AI to keep video meetings on track; Automatic bug detection in LLM-powered text-based games; MAIRA-2: Grounded radiology report generation.
MicroCode: Portable programming for the BBC micro:bit
| Eric Anderson, Thomas Ball, Peli de Halleux, James Devine, and Michal Moskal
MicroCode offers an affordable way to program the BBC micro:bit without needing an internet connection, fostering exploratory learning.
Awards | Computing Research Association
Martez Mott receives CRA-WP Skip Ellis Early Career Award
Mott focuses on designing, building, and evaluating novel intelligent interactive technologies that are guided by scientific understandings of people’s experiences with computers and information.
Ideas: Solving network management puzzles with Behnaz Arzani
| Gretchen Huizinga and Behnaz Arzani
Behnaz Arzani loves hard problems and the freedom to explore. That makes research a great fit! She discusses her work in network management, including the potential role of LLMs in the field; the challenges that excite her; and how storytelling…