Microsoft Research | Oct 7, 2026 | 1 min read
Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks.
Microsoft Research | Aug 3, 2026 | 1 min read
Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types.
Microsoft Research | Jul 30, 2026 | 1 min read
Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support.
Microsoft Research | Jul 8, 2026 | 1 min read
Flint: A visualization language for the AI era Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results.
Microsoft Research | Jun 30, 2026 | 1 min read
SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement.
Microsoft Research | Jun 29, 2026 | 1 min read
Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity AI agents can't remember past conversations.