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Microsoft Research

Microsoft's research organization

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Albert Ge et al. (Microsoft Research, UW–Madison)
Researchers propose register tokens to pass reasoning state in diffusion LMs

A case of solving, through architecture, a chronic limitation of diffusion language models: "state breaks at chunk boundaries". A substantive advance that arrived just as the observation topic "diffusion language models"

Microsoft Research (Edge, Trinh, Larson)
Microsoft Research releases LazyGraphRAG

The original GraphRAG authors acknowledged the cost problem themselves and turned toward deferred graph construction

Adam Fourney et al. (Microsoft Research)
Microsoft Research presents Magentic-One

A reference implementation of the orchestrator-worker pattern

Microsoft Research
GraphRAG open-sourced on GitHub with an Azure solution accelerator

The point at which a research technique spread as a widely replicable implementation

Darren Edge et al. (Microsoft Research)
GraphRAG paper published

Handles global summarization queries that local retrieval cannot answer

Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research publishes Phi-3 technical report

Justified the approach of small models deployable on phones through data curation

Microsoft Research India (Agrawal et al.)
Sarathi-Serve

Solved the problem of long prompts stalling decode; 2.6–5.6× the serving capacity of vLLM

Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research publishes GraphRAG blog post

A lineage of structured indexes beyond vector similarity search

Microsoft Research and others (Wu et al.)
AutoGen

A multi-agent approach that composes agents through conversations between them and allows human-in-the-loop

Xuefei Ning et al. (Tsinghua University, Microsoft Research)
Skeleton-of-Thought published

A branch that applied reasoning prompting to latency optimization

Microsoft Research
Textbooks Are All You Need

Trained a 1.3B model on 7B tokens to reach 50.6% on HumanEval, demonstrating that data quality matters more than quantity

Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research open-sources DeepSpeed

The layer that made extremely large-scale training possible without rewriting code for model parallelism

Suhas Jayaram Subramanya et al. (Microsoft Research India, CMU)
Microsoft Research India and CMU present DiskANN

An SSD-based ANN that broke HNSW's constraint of having to hold everything in memory

Kaiming He et al. (Microsoft Research Asia)
He et al. publish Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (ResNet) on arXiv

Made training of very deep networks possible through residual connections. A basic component of most later architectures, including the Transformer