Abstract: Language models excel at producing fluent text, but in domains like code and math, fluency isn’t enough --- outputs must obey strict syntactic and semantic rules. A new wave of research is rethinking decoding itself: not as a process of sampling words, but as a negotiation between probability, structure, and meaning. In…

Abstract: How do complex biological systems make decisions, and how can we learn to model, engineer, and ultimately direct those decisions toward better clinical outcomes? In this talk, Professor Sonali Chaturvedi will discuss her lab’s efforts to uncover the organizing principles that govern decision-making in living systems.…