DESNEYTAN:Born and raised in Singapore. Dad was an architect. Mom did everything, um, to run the family. When I turned 13, Mom and Dad came to me and they said, “Hey, would you like to try something new?” I said sure. You know, I had no idea what they, they were thinking....
I don’t know. And then the whole thing, kind of, becomes much more rich and a much bigger exploration compared to, say, putting keywords into a search engine. It’s a really much more rich space to explore. Now you asked me … a part of your question was, why is prompt...
So my internship mentor, who’s an amazing person, I thought—and this is, again, my perception as an intern—the day after he was on call, he was so tired, I felt. And so grumpy … grumpier than normal! [LAUGHTER] And, like, my main motivation initially for working...
This work was spearheaded byUniversity of Michigan PhD student Luowei Zhouduring a Microsoft Research internship.University of Michigan Professor Jason J. CorsoandHamid Palangi,Lei Zhang,Jianfeng Gao, andHoudong Huof Microsoft served as advisors on the work. A speci...
Sara Beery: Well, I am going to work my butt off for the rest of this internship. Hopefully take advantage, as much as possible, of the resources I have here. I am going back to Caltech right when I finish. Being in a PhD is… it’s a long haul, but it’s exciting. ...
This alternative to the time-consuming task of fine-tuning the ratio of style reward to task reward manually means designers can explore many more style variations instead of spending their resources getting a single style to work properly. Figure 1: Potential-based reward shaping (PBRS) makes ...
Tom Zimmermann: Because most of my research was very data driven. I had a good time here during my internship and I thought, what a better place to be for data than Microsoft? And since then, I’ve been here, and I’ve done data analysis of many different things. I looked into game...
And reinforcement learning algorithms try to explore from scratch, right? You are doing learning tabula rasa, you assume that the agent just was born and now has to interact with the world and acquire knowledge. Imitation learning is more middle-ground, where it...
“Everybody at the lab wants you to have a positive experience,” he says. “Your success matters to them. It is a far more valuable internship if you get to know the senior staff and their work.” Wei agrees. “Don’t be afraid to talk to people,” he says, “even if they are...
IQBAL:I mean, one of the responsibilities that I have in my new role is that I also have to kind of deliver ideas that are not going to be immediately relevant maybe but towards the future. And so this gives me the opportunity to explore and incubate those new...