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Publication

The CoExplorer Technology Probe: A Generative AI-Powered Adaptive Interface to Support Intentionality in Planning and Running Video Meetings

Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel

DIS 2024 | July 2024

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Can LLMs be Fooled? Investigating Vulnerabilities in LLMs

Sara Abdali, Jia He, CJ Barberan, Richard Anarfi

July 2024

arXiv | July 2024

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of June 24, 2024

June 26, 2024 | Xenofon Foukas, Bozidar Radunovic, Francis Y. Yan, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel, Sudha Rao, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan, Shruthi Bannur, Kenza Bouzid, Daniel Coelho de Castro, Anton Schwaighofer, Sam Bond-Taylor, Max Ilse, Fernando Pérez-García, Valentina Salvatelli, Harshita Sharma, Julia Gong, Anja Thieme, Matthew Lungren, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Stephanie Hyland, Payod Panda

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.

Project

Modern Work & AI

Understanding the functionality of GenAI amongst small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and in the healthcare sector across Africa

Publication

Position: Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

Hua Shen, Tiffany Knearem, Reshmi Ghosh, Kenan Alkiek, Kundan Krishna, Yachuan Liu, Ziqiao Ma, S. Petridis, Yi-Hao Peng, Li Qiwei, Sushrita Rakshit, Chenglei Si, Yutong Xie, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Frank Bentley, Joyce Chai, Zachary C. Lipton, Qiaozhu Mei, Rada Mihalcea, Michael Terry, Diyi Yang, Meredith Ringel Morris, Paul Resnick, David Jurgens

NeurIPS 2025 | June 2024

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FAccT 2024

June 3, 2024 – June 7, 2024 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Microsoft is honored to support the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT (opens in new tab)). This pivotal computer science conference has a multidisciplinary approach, uniting researchers and practitioners who are dedicated…

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Publication

Measuring and shaping the nutritional environment via food sales logs: case studies of campus-wide food choice and a call to action

Kristina Gligorić, Robin Zbinden, Arnaud Chiolero, Emre Kiciman, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz, Robert West

Frontiers in Nutrition | June 2024, Vol 11

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Knowledge Distillation in Automated Annotation: Supervised Text Classification with LLM-Generated Training Labels

Nick Pangakis, Sam Wolken

Sixth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS 2024) | June 2024

Publication

“It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study

Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch

CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024

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Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of May 27, 2024

May 29, 2024 | Tarleton Gillespie, Sami Khairy, Vishak Gopal, Francis Y. Yan, Zhixiong Niu, Ross Cutler, Sudha Rao, Weijia Xu, Chris Brockett, Nebojsa Jojic, Michael Xu, Jorge Leandro, Bill Dolan, Seth Spielman, Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, Joshua Bradley, Alex Chao, Apurva Mody, Steven Truitt, Jonathan Larson

How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.