A tiny implementation detail in low-precision arithmetic could be biasing your AI training 😲 This interactive deep dive from Graphcore Research's @Awfidius uncovers a subtle failure mode in stochastic rounding that only appears when randomness is limited, and how it can be addressed with one simple fix 🎲 Check it out in the link below! 👇

Would you rather use 1 million × 16-bit weights, 4 million × 4-bit weights, or even 16 million × 1-bit weights? In joint work between Aleph Alpha Research and Graphcore, we asked this question of LLMs — the answer encouraged us to embrace the wonder ✨ of 1-bit weights, which can outperform 4-bit and 16-bit weights on a fixed weight memory budget. In our work - ⚖️ A scaling laws evaluation prompts us to consider very low-bit formats - 📈 Scaled-up tests show the power of memory-matched models with 1-bit weights - ⚡ Kernel benchmarking demonstrates their feasibility for autoregressive inference Read all about it in our blog and paper (link below! ⬇️) Massive thanks to our collaborators at Aleph Alpha Research! Authors: @SohirMaskey, Constantin Eichenberg, @atomicflndr and @douglasahorr

🚨 Graphcore is hiring AI Research Interns! 🚨 Join us to work at the intersection of hardware and AI and help shape the future of AI systems. Whether you're excited about efficient inference, large-scale training, or advancing frontier-model capabilities, we’ve got cutting-edge projects for you to dive into. Interested? Apply below 👇

Microsoft Mesh entering public preview on desktop and headset with new #MicrosoftTeams experience. 😎💜 microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…

"FLAG: Flow-based Avatar Generation from sparse observations" is accepted to #CVPR2022! FLAG generates 3D poses from HMD signals, a step towards having faithful avatars for AR/VR. Joint work w/ @CameronPashmina, @FedericaBogo, @Awfidius, & @TomCashman. microsoft.github.io/flag

Have you ever worked with a remote collaborator on 3D graphics/vision and wished you could interact with the same visualizations with the full 3D context? ScenePic is great for this: zero-install, single file, animatable, with configurable layers to customize views. Check it out!

Interns play a huge part in the life of the Mixed Reality & AI Lab and make a real difference in our mission to build the future of communication & collaboration. If you're interested in pushing the boundaries of mixed reality by innovating in vision, graphics & ML, come join us!

We're #hiring! Interested in coming to work on virtual presence technologies for #MicrosoftMesh youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2GK0qD… and #HoloLens in one of our Mixed Reality & AI Labs in Belgrade, Cambridge, or Zurich? linkedin.com/posts/jamie-sho…

This past year as we've all been physically separated, it has been amazing to work on bringing Microsoft Mesh to life, and imagine ways to bring people together even when we're apart youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2GK0qD…

Another great event is coming up, and this time Datagen and Machine & Deep learning Israel are partnering to bring you an event all about Synthetic data! Check out this impressive list of speakers :) Link to register: bit.ly/3dscoGn

Internships in our team are a brilliantly creative and educational experience, particularly for the project mentors! I learnt so much from this year's interns: can't wait to see what we build with the students who join us next year.

Here are the latest Pillar 2 capacity and tests. The capacity figures haven't been published since 10 August (two days after the Head of Testing and NHS Test and Trace made her statement). My question: what is the current capacity in Pillar 2, and how is this figure calculated?

When Jingjing and @_tim_hutton_ proposed this idea for optimizing the HoloLens 2 hand tracker, I was convinced it wouldn't work. They proved me wrong and gave us 4x faster surface evaluation. Building a product that our customers love required a blend of engineering and research.

A little song parody project that Mrs C, @simoncragg and I have been working on. Enjoy! Stay in your house or flat (Men in Black Parody) youtu.be/MhjYeYBCbFA via @YouTube

Fantastic to see the work the HoloLens team is doing to support members of the VentilatorChallengeUK consortium to set up new production lines for ventilators news.microsoft.com/en-gb/202…

This is the most convincing description I've read of a near-term exit strategy. Get outbreak under control ("the hammer"), maintain R~1 and buy time ("the dance"). Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance by @tomaspueyo link.medium.com/gIH5T8WBZ4

I work with an amazing team that cares about building the right thing & building it right; that values cutting-edge research as well as precision engineering; and that has the expertise & ambition to transform the way we work and communicate. We're hiring! careers.microsoft.com/us/en/…

PSA, please RT. This is an amazing opportunity to learn to videoconference. It's really easy: video ON, mute OFF. Yes, for the whole meeting. Yes, that means you have to actually participate. If you can't, then take the time back. We'll call you if we need you.

#inspiring #MixedReality painting with #HoloLens2 [)-)

Josh Thorpe from the BBC World Service discovers instinctual interactions on HoloLens 2 at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csy7… starting from 8:30. @JoshThorpeBBC