Why marketing mix modeling is still hard to get right

Open-source tools have made MMM more accessible, but reliable results still depend on clean data, thoughtful modeling, and ...
Communications of the ACM

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?

Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how ...

Detecting neutron sources by borrowing inference tools from cosmology

Neutron sources can be directly identified from measured spectra rather than proxies using inference tools adapted from ...
Science Daily

Millions of exploding stars could soon reveal dark energy's secrets

A new AI-powered framework could transform how astronomers measure the expansion of the Universe. By analyzing images of Type ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that ...
The New York Times

Are Models Getting Even Skinnier?

The era of size inclusivity is seemingly over. Our critic traces the shift and hopes designers might learn from it. By Vanessa Friedman I know models have always been skinny, but it seems to me they ...
eLife

Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multiregion brain cell count data

This study proposes an important new approach to analyzing cell-count data, which are often undersampled and cannot be accurately assessed using traditional statistical methods. The case studies ...
IEEE

Bayesian Inference-Aided Large Language Model Agents in Infinitely Repeated Games: A Dynamic Network View

Abstract: The rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs) has led to increasingly frequent interactions between LLM agents and human users, motivating new questions about their capacity to form ...