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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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Research Focus: Week of September 23, 2024

September 25, 2024 | Shun Zheng, Jiang Bian, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Anjaly Parayil, Ankur Mallick, Esha Choukse, Xiaoting Qin, Jue Zhang, Íñigo Goiri, Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, Victor Ruehle, Saravan Rajmohan

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict…

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Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models

Orion Weller, Ben Van Durme, Dawn Lawrie, Ashwin Paranjape, Yuhao Zhang, Jack Hessel

ICLR 2025 | September 2024

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Evaluating the risk of data loss due to particle radiation damage in a DNA data storage system

Christopher N. Takahashi, David P. Ward, Carlo Cazzaniga, Christopher D. Frost, Paolo Rech, Kumkum Ganguly, Sean Blanchard, Steve Wender, Bichlien Nguyen, Jake Smith

Nature Communications | September 2024, Vol 15: pp. 8067

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Proceedings of The First Workshop on Large Language Models for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024)

Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hossein A. Rahmani, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz

September 2024

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Rethinking Node Representation Interpretation through Relation Coherence

Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Cassiano Becker, Purvanshi Metha, Nabiha Asghar, Vipul Agarwal

September 2024

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Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan

ACL | August 2024

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LLMJudge: LLMs for Relevance Judgments

Hossein A Rahmani, Emine Yilmaz, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Charles L A Clarke, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Clemencia Siro, Guglielmo Faggioli

August 2024

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What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman

August 1, 2024

Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computational social science and now causal analysis and large-scale AI—and…

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Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024

Hossein A. Rahmani, Clemencia Siro, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Nick Craswell, Charles L. A. Clarke, Guglielmo Faggioli, Bhaskar Mitra, Paul Thomas, Emine Yilmaz

August 2024

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Generative AI in Real-World Workplaces

Sonia Jaffe, Neha Parikh Shah, Jenna Butler, Alex Farach, Alexia Cambon, Brent Hecht, Michael Schwarz, Jaime Teevan

MSR-TR-2024-29 | July 2024

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