“It’s kind of hard to get around the question of what exactly a ‘word’ should be for a language model, and even if we got human experts to agree on a perfect token vocabulary, models would probably still find it useful to ‘chunk’ things even further,” Sheridan Feucht, a PhD student studying large language model […]

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, says the best way to counteract the negative press is to change the subject, though he’s unclear whether it’s too late for Biden’s campaign to stop the bleeding.

Researchers from Northeastern University examined the link between individual perceptions of partisan polarization and the occurrence of various health disorders. The impact on mental health was more significant than on physical health.

Researchers at Northeastern University looked at tokenization, or the process of breaking down text into units called tokens that the models can more easily work with.

5 Investigates speaks with Northeastern University Assistant Professor Jacob Stowell for perspective on this year’s homicide rate decline in Boston.

“A withdrawal this late has its own challenges,” said William Mayer, a Northeastern University political scientist. “The delegates are planning to go to the Chicago convention with the intention of voting for Biden. This is unusual – and dangerous – and that’s before we even consider the question of who will replace him as nominee.”