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Large Language Models
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2025-08-21
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Dear student
and aspiring data- & AI-engineer
Preface
An invitation
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Accept or discard?
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Framework
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Basic decision problems
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Connection with machine learning and AI
Inference I
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What is an inference?
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Sentences
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Truth inference
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Probability inference
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Shortcut rules
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Monty Hall and related inference problems
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Second connection with machine learning
Data I
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Quantities and data types
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Joint quantities and complex data types
Inference II
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Probability distributions
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Joint probability distributions
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Marginal probability distributions
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Conditional probability and learning
Learning and conditional probability: a summary
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Information, relevance, independence, association
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Third connection with machine learning
Data II
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Populations and variates
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Statistics
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Subpopulations and conditional frequencies
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Infinite populations and samples
Machine learning
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Introduction to machine learning
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Neural networks
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Inference III
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Beyond machine learning
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Exchangeable beliefs
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Inferences from frequencies
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Inference about frequencies
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Final inference formulae
A prototype Optimal Predictor Machine
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The Dirichlet-mixture belief distribution
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Code design
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Prototype code and workflow
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Example application: adult-income task
Decision-making
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Utilities
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Making decisions
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The prototype Optimal Predictor Machine makes decisions
Further connections with present-day machine-learning
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Decisions: limitations of present-day machine-learning algorithms
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Evaluation practices and utilities
Conclusion
What next?
References
Thanks
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Large Language Models
Published
2025-08-21
To be written
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Neural networks
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Beyond machine learning