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Search and information retrieval

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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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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights

January 19, 2026

Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.

Microsoft Research India 2025 Key Highlights

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Fine-tuning Small Language Models as Efficient Enterprise Search Relevance Labelers

Yue Kang, Zhuoyi Huang, Benji Schussheim, Diana Licon, Dina Atia, Shixing Cao, Jacob Danovitch, Kunho Kim, Billy Norcilien, Jonah Karpman, Mahmound Sayed, Mike Taylor, Tao Sun, Pavel Metrikov, Vipul Agarwal, Chris Quirk, Ye-Yi Wang, Nick Craswell, Irene Shaffer, Tianwei Chen, Sulaiman Vesal, Soundar Srinivasan

ArXiv | January 2026

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Scalable Distributed Vector Search via Accuracy Preserving Index Construction

Yuming Xu, Qianxi Zhang, Qi Chen, Baotong Lu, Menghao Li, Philip Adams, Mingqin Li, Zengzhong Li, Jing Liu, Cheng Li, Fan Yang

December 2025

arXiv | December 2025

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Research Intern – AIP AI Knowledge Multimodal AI

Posted: December 2, 2025

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Human language technologies, Search and information retrieval

The mission of the AI Platform team is to advance the state of the art in AI and create breakthroughs that power next-generation applications. As a Research Intern, you’ll contribute to cutting-edge research in multimodal…

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Machine Intelligence

Advanced machine learning research, grounded in trust, efficiency, capability. The Machine Intelligence team at MSR Cambridge (UK) is dedicated to foundational machine-learning research, guided by the principles of responsible AI, collaboration, and scientific excellence. Our…

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Incorporating Token Importance in Multi-Vector Retrieval

S. Archish, Ankit Garg, Kirankumar Shiragur, Neeraj Kayal

November 2025

arXiv | November 2025

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ODSP Applied Science

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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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.

Peter Lee, Sriram Rajamani, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Doug Burger standing together smiling

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