A year and a half ago, I wrote an article suggesting that search was far from a solved problem, and that in fact it was poised for a revolution. I suggested that by applying deep learning models and making search more modern and intuitive, we could significantly improve the experience for our users. I’m thrilled to see that we are making a large step forward towards this vision with the recent announcement of the new Bing. We’ve...
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The advantages of large language models are undeniable due to the capabilities achieved and opportunities ahead. We must also consider the benefits and potential harms coming via uses of these models. In 2021, we founded the Microsoft Turing Academic Program (MS-TAP) that provides academic teams with access to some of the world's largest language models. The program reflects our belief in the importance of having diverse and talented teams...
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Turing Universal Language Representation Model family (T-ULRv6) has achieved the 1st position on both the Google XTREME and GLUE leaderboards, demonstrating that a single multilingual model can achieve state-of-the-art capabilities in both English and Multilingual understanding tasks. Multilingual technology is not only a technical challenge but also a social responsibility. Therefore, we are committed to democratizing AI by...
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The Bing search stack is built for speed at all layers. Fast performance delights users and drives loyalty and engagement. This blog presents the key performance techniques used by Bing’s front-end to deliver and render search results pages with world-class speed.
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The Microsoft Turing team has a new addition to its family of image and language models. The Turing Image Super Resolution model (T-ISR) uses deep learning to deliver the magical “enhance” to any image in the world. It is already being used today to improve the quality of the aerial view in Bing Maps around the globe and is also rolling out in Microsoft Edge to bring its powers to the entire web. See examples of the model in action...
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We are proud to introduce WebQA, a dataset for multi-hop, multi-modal open-domain question answering challenge, to be hosted at NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track. Designed to simulate the heterogeneous information landscape one might expect when performing web search, WebQA contains 46K knowledge-seeking queries whose answers are to be found in either images or text snippets, where a system must determine relevant sources first before reasoning to...
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Rank Multimodal (RankMM) The RankMM model effectively combines the search paradigms of a text query, page context, and images to aid image and video retrieval. RankMM models are Visual Language (VL) models which take page context into account to improve image and video retrieval performance in a web-scale search engine.
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Enhancing image quality is a critical but challenging computer vision task. We've released a new AI-based model for improving the quality of images on Microsoft Bing. Not only are the Bing image search results relevant, but they are also beautiful and high-resolution. Our new V3 model outperformed the V2 model by 36% in terms of click-through rate, demonstrating that users find visually appealing images in search results more interesting and...
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To reach out to wider audiences, Bing Search APIs will be transitioning from Azure Cognitive Services Platform to Azure Marketplace. Beginning October 31st, 2020, provisioning of any new instances of Bing Search APIs will need to be done via Azure Marketplace. All existing instances of Bing Search APIs, provisioned under Azure Cognitive Services, will be supported up to the next three years or till the end of the customer’s enterprise...
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Intelligent question-answering is one of the most useful and delightful features of search. As a user, you ask a question (e.g., “what are the benefits of eating apricots”) and can get the answer directly (e.g., info about health and nutrition benefits of apricots) at the top of the page without further need to search for relevant content by yourself. Recently, Bing expanded its intelligent question-answering feature to more than 100...
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