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Research Forum Episode 5

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**Quarterly Brief | February 2025**

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*   [Podcasts](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast)

*   Mar 6

### [The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: An Introduction](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/the-ai-revolution-in-medicine-revisited-an-introduction/) 

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*   Mar 5

### [Advancing biomedical discovery: Overcoming data challenges in precision medicine](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/advancing-biomedical-discovery-overcoming-data-challenges-in-precision-medicine/) 

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*   Mar 3

### [World and Human Action Models towards gameplay ideation (Supplementary Video 1)](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/world-and-human-action-models-towards-gameplay-ideation-supplementary-video-1/) 

*   [Blogs](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog)

*   Mar 10

### [Semantic Telemetry: Understanding how users interact with AI systems](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/semantic-telemetry-understanding-how-users-interact-with-ai-systems/) 

*   Publication

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Mar 1

### [POD-Attention: Unlocking Full Prefill-Decode Overlap for Faster LLM Inference](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/pod-attention-unlocking-full-prefill-decode-overlap-for-faster-llm-inference/) 

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Mar 6

### [Overview of the TREC 2024 Tip-of-the-Tongue Track](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/overview-of-the-trec-2024-tip-of-the-tongue-track/) 

*   Download

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Feb 19

### [Explorer: Scaling Exploration-driven Web Trajectory Synthesis for Multimodal Web Agents](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/explorer-scaling-exploration-driven-web-trajectory-synthesis-for-multimodal-web-agents/) 

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Feb 28

### [Multi-modal Language models in bioacoustics with zero-shot transfer: a case study](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/multi-modal-language-models-in-bioacoustics-with-zero-shot-transfer-a-case-study/) 

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Mar 3

### [Fostering appropriate reliance on GenAI: Lessons learned from early research](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/fostering-appropriate-reliance-on-genai-lessons-learned-from-early-research/) 

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Feb 16

### [LM Agents for Coordinating Multi-User Information Gathering](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/lm-agents-for-coordinating-multi-user-information-gathering/) 

*   [Videos](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?facet%5Bdate%5D%5Bfixed%5D=any&facet%5Btax%5D%5Bmsr-content-type%5D=msr-video&pg=1&q=&sort_by=most-recent)

*   Feb 4

### [LLMs vs. Torch 1.5: Why Your Code Assistant Can't Keep Up](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/llms-vs-torch-1-5-why-your-code-assistant-cant-keep-up/) 

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Apr 24

### [SeCom: On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/secom-on-memory-construction-and-retrieval-for-personalized-conversational-agents/) 

*   [Publications](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publications)

*   Feb 27

### [Rapid and accurate prediction of protein homo-oligomer symmetry using Seq2Symm](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/rapid-and-accurate-prediction-of-protein-homo-oligomer-symmetry-using-seq2symm/) 

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