微软亚洲研究院、微软雷德蒙研究院联合推出“星跃计划”第二轮报名开启，人才持续招募中，快来申请吧！
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首批推出的跨研究院联合科研项目覆盖自然语言处理、数据智能、计算机系统与网络、智能云等领域。研究项目如下：High-performance Distributed Deep Learning, Intelligent Data Cleansing, Intelligent Power-Aware Virtual Machine Allocation, Learning Bandwidth Estimation for Real-Time Video, Neuro-Symbolic Semantic Parsing for Data Science, Next-Gen Large Pretrained Language Models。
2021 年 1 月，“星跃计划”首轮报名一经推出，便收到海内外学子的积极报名与热情关注。现在第二轮“星跃计划”已经开放申请，还在等什么？加入“星跃计划”，和我们一起跨越重洋，探索科研的更多可能！
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High-performance
Distributed Deep Learning
The parallel and distributed systems are the solution to address the ever-increasing complexity problem of deep learning trainings. However, existing solutions still leave efficiency and scalability on the table by missing optimization opportunities on various environments at industrial scale.
In this project, we’ll work with scientists who are at the forefront of system and network research, leveraging the world-leading platforms to solve system and networking problems in parallel and distributed deep learning area. The current project team members, from both MSR Asia and MSR Redmond labs, have rich experience contributing to both industry and academic community through transferring innovations that support production systems and publications at top conferences.
System and Networking, MSR Asia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/systems-and-networking-research-group-asia/
Research in Software Engineering, MSR Redmond
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/research-software-engineering-rise/
Major in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent field
Solid knowledge of data structure/algorithm
Familiarity with Python, C/C++ and other programming languages, familiar with Linux and development on Linux platform
Good communication and presentation skills
Good English reading and writing ability, capable of system implementing based on academic papers in English, capable of writing English documents
Those with the following conditions are preferred:
Familiarity with deep learning systems, e.g., PyTorch TensorFlow, GPU programming and networking
Familiarity with NCCL, MPI communication protocols such as OpenMPI and MVAPICH
Rich knowledge of machine learning and machine learning models
Familiarity with engineering process as a strong plus
Active on GitHub, used or participated in well-known open source projects
Intelligent Data Cleansing
Tabular data such as Excel spreadsheets and databases are one of the most important assets in large enterprises today, which however are often plagued with data quality issues. Intelligent data cleansing focuses on novel ways to detect and fix data quality issues in tabular data, which can assist the large class of less-technical and non-technical users in enterprises.
We are interested in a variety of topics in this area, including data-driven and intelligent techniques to detect data quality issues and suggest possible fixes, leveraging inferred constraints and statistical properties based on existing data assets and software artifacts.
Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence (DKI), MSR Asia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/data-knowledge-intelligence/
Exploration and Mining (DMX), MSR Redmond
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/data-management-exploration-and-mining-dmx
Graduate-level students in Computer Science or related STEM fields. PhD students are preferred
Students with research background in database, data mining, statistics, software engineering, and visualization are preferred
Intelligent Power-Aware
Virtual Machine Allocation
As one of the world-leading cloud service providers, Microsoft Azure manages tens of millions of virtual machines every day. Within such a large-scale cloud system, how to efficiently allocate virtual machines on servers is critical and has been a hot research topic for years. Previously, teams from MSR-Asia and MSR-Redmond have made significant contributions in this area that resulted in production impact and publication of academic papers at top-tier conferences (e.g., IJCAI, AAAI, OSDI, NSDI). In this project we intend to unify the strength of MSR-Asia and MSR-Redmond for performing forward-looking and collaborative research on power management in datacenters, including power-aware virtual machine allocation. The project involves developing power prediction models by leveraging the start-of-the-art machine learning methods, as well as building efficient and reliable allocation systems in large-scale distributed environments.
Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence (DKI), MSR Asia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/data-knowledge-intelligence/
System, MSR Redmond
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/systems-research-group-redmond/
Currently enrolled in a graduate program in computer science or equivalent field
Good research track record in related areas
Able to carry out research tasks with high quality
Good communication and presentation skills in written and oral English
Knowledge and experience in machine learning, data mining and data analytics are preferred
Familiarity with AIOps or AI for systems is a strong plus
Learning Bandwidth Estimation
for Real-Time Video
In today’s real-time video applications, a key component for optimizing the user’s quality of experience is bandwidth estimation and rate control. It estimates the network capacity based on congestion signals observed on the path and adapts the video bitrate accordingly through the codec. However, existing handcrafted bandwidth estimators have failed to accommodate a wide range of complex network conditions, calling for a data-driven approach.
Motivated by the recent success in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to video streaming and congestion control, we have made an initial attempt at designing an RL-based bandwidth estimator for one-on-one video calls. Going forward, we are working to optimize the performance of our current neural network model, as well as extending the research study of bandwidth estimation and rate control to multiparty videoconferencing.
System and Networking, MSR Asia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/systems-and-networking-research-group-asia/
Mobility and Networking, MSR Redmond
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/mobility-and-networking-research/
Major in computer science or a related field
Strong programming skills in Python or C++
Excellent English communication skills
Experience with deep reinforcement learning or related areas is preferred
Knowledge of computer networks is preferred
Background in AI for systems and networking is a strong plus
Track record of publications in top systems, networking, or AI conferences is strongly preferred
Neuro-Symbolic Semantic Parsing
for Data Science
Our cross-lab, inter-disciplinary research team develops AI technology for interactive coding assistance for data science, data analytics, and business process automation. It allows the user to specify their data processing intent in the middle of their workflow using a combination of natural language, input-output examples, and multi-modal UX – and translates that intent into the desired source code. The underlying AI technology integrates our state-of-the-art research in program synthesis, semantic parsing, and structure-grounded natural language understanding. It has the potential to improve productivity of millions of data scientists and software developers, as well as establish new scientific milestones for deep learning over structured data, grounded language understanding, and neuro-symbolic AI.
The research project involves collecting and establishing a novel benchmark dataset for data science program generation, developing novel neuro-symbolic semantic parsing models to tackle this challenge, adapting large-scale pretrained language models to new domains and knowledge bases, as well as publishing in top-tier AI/NLP conferences. We expect the benchmark dataset and the new models to be used in academia as well as in Microsoft products.
Natural Language Computing, MSR Asia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/natural-language-computing
Neuro-Symbolic Learning, MSR Redmond
Masters or Ph.D. students, majoring in computer science or equivalent areas
Background in deep NLP, semantic parsing, sequence-to-sequence learning, Transformers required
Experience with PyTorch and HuggingFace Transformers
Fluent English speaking, listening, and writing skills
Background in deep learning over structured data (graphs/trees/programs) and program synthesis preferred
Students with papers published at top-tier AI/NLP conferences are preferred
Next-Gen Large
Pretrained Language Models
The goal of this project is to develop game-changing techniques for next-gen large pre-trained language models, including
(1) Beyond UniLM/InfoXLM: novel pre-training frameworks and self-supervised tasks for monolingual and multilingual pre-training to support language understanding, generation and translation tasks;
(2) Beyond Transformers: new model architectures and optimization algorithms for improving training effectiveness and efficiency of extremely large language models;
(3) Knowledge Fusion: new modeling frameworks to fuse massive pre-compiled knowledge into pre-trained models;
(4) Lifelong Self-supervised Learning: mechanisms and algorithms for lifelong (incremental) pre-training. This project extends our existing research and aims to advance SOTA on NLP and AI in general.
Natural Language Computing, MSR Asia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/natural-language-computing
Deep Learning, MSR Redmond
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/deep-learning-group
Major in computer science or equivalent areas
One+ year research experience in deep learning for NLP, CV or related areas
Experience with open-source tools such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.
Background knowledge of language model pre-training is preferred
Track record of publications in related top conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR) is preferred
Excellent communication and writing skills
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