Microsoft Research Forum | Season 2, Episode 4

Microsoft Research Forum is a virtual series highlighting purposeful research and its real-world impact, from fundamental exploration to advancing AI responsibly, scaling innovation through products and open source, and driving positive change for society. Register for the series to hear about new releases: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/microsoft-research-forum/?OCID=msr_researchforum_YTDescription Explore all previous episodes: https://aka.ms/researchforumYTplaylist MagenticLite Fara1.5 and MagenticBrain will be available on Microsoft Foundry soon GitHub Agentic Workflows: AI that runs your repo GitHub: https://github.github.com/gh-aw/ Interwhen: Steering reasoning agents with real-time verification ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11202 GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/interwhen" New fine-tuning of language models: Match meaning, not tokens Paper: https://energy-based-fine-tuning.github.io ArXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12248 GitHub: https://github.com/sjelassi/ebft_openrlhf Guiding the AI disruption to the Good Place Paper: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-agentic-economy/ Paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c15310/c15310.pdf ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25779 ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25893 Microsoft Research Forum, Season 2 Episode 4 aired on May 14, 2026.