mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_SCI 474: Probabilistic Graphical Models

Probabilistic graphical models are a powerful technique for handling uncertainty in machine learning. The course will cover how probability distributions can be represented in graphical models, how ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_SCI 374: Causal Graphical Models

We know that correlation does not imply causation, but careful analyses of correlations are often our only way to quantify cause and effect in domains ranging from healthcare to education. This ...

Mistral's Small 4 consolidates reasoning, vision and coding into one model — at a fraction of the inference cost

Mistral's Small 4 combines reasoning, multimodal analysis and agentic coding in a single open-source model with configurable ...
Forbes

The Inference Economy: How Sparse Computing And Model Optimization Are Reshaping Enterprise AI Deployment

The AI industry stands at an inflection point. While the previous era pursued larger models—GPT-3's 175 billion parameters to PaLM's 540 billion—focus has shifted toward efficiency and economic ...
TechNode

ByteDance unveils UltraMem architecture to reduce large model inference costs by up to 83%

ByteDance’s Doubao Large Model team yesterday introduced UltraMem, a new architecture designed to address the high memory access issues found during inference in Mixture of Experts (MoE) models.
The Motley Fool

What Is AI Inference?

AI inference uses trained data to enable models to make deductions and decisions. Effective AI inference results in quicker and more accurate model responses. Evaluating AI inference focuses on speed, ...
Business Wire

Cerebras Helps Power OpenAI’s Open Model at World-Record Inference Speeds: gpt-oss-120B Delivers Frontier Reasoning for All

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cerebras Systems today announced inference support for gpt-oss-120B, OpenAI’s first open-weight reasoning model, now running at record-breaking ...
Forbes

The Rise Of The AI Inference Economy

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...