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Why AI Models ‘Think’ Longer: New Theory Explains Reasoning Breakthrough

New theory by CDS PhD student Nikolaos Tsilivis, CDS’ Julia Kempe, & others links AI models’ longer answers to better reasoning…

18h ago

Why AI Models ‘Think’ Longer: New Theory Explains Reasoning Breakthrough

18h ago

Supercharged Information Synthesis: CDS Alum Teaches AI Models What Information Actually Matters

CDS PhD alum Vishakh Padmakumar tackled summarization’s hardest challenge: choosing what matters.

5d ago

Supercharged Information Synthesis: CDS Alum Teaches AI Models What Information Actually Matters

5d ago

Lightweight AI Monitors Can Catch 93% of Attacks That Break Safety Rules into Benign-Looking Steps

CDS researchers developed a lightweight AI safety monitor that blocks 93% of decomposition attacks with 90% lower cost.

Nov 5

Lightweight AI Monitors Can Catch 93% of Attacks That Break Safety Rules into Benign-Looking Steps

Nov 5

Pinpointing Where AI Models Hide Their Concepts: From Safety to Dogs to Mathematical Reasoning

New research from CDS reveals the specific attention heads where language models store concepts like safety and reasoning.

Oct 29

Pinpointing Where AI Models Hide Their Concepts: From Safety to Dogs to Mathematical Reasoning

Oct 29

Asking AI in Multiple Languages Unlocks More Diverse Perspectives

Prompting AI in multiple languages helps it reflect a broader range of perspectives.

Oct 24

Asking AI in Multiple Languages Unlocks More Diverse Perspectives

Oct 24

Meet the Fellow: Jian Qian

Jian Qian joins CDS as a Faculty Fellow & Courant Instructor, bringing research in machine learning theory and interactive decision-making.

Oct 22

Meet the Fellow: Jian Qian

Oct 22

When AI Learns What Makes an Image Probable, Simple Beats Complex by 10¹⁴⁰⁰⁰

Natural images vary in probability by up to 10¹⁴⁰⁰⁰, CDS researchers find, challenging assumptions about how images are structured.

Oct 17

When AI Learns What Makes an Image Probable, Simple Beats Complex by 10¹⁴⁰⁰⁰

Oct 17

Most Chatbots Miss Half the World’s Values, Study Finds

CDS PhD student Lily Zhang and Meta collaborators created a new dataset to help build LMs that better reflect global human values.

Oct 15

Most Chatbots Miss Half the World’s Values, Study Finds

Oct 15

How LLMs Could Transform the Study of Human Groups

CDS Faculty Fellow Ilia Sucholutsky and collaborators outline how LLMs could reshape how we study group cognition at societal scales.

Oct 10

How LLMs Could Transform the Study of Human Groups

Oct 10

CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

Oct 8

CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Oct 8

NYU Center for Data Science

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Official account of the Center for Data Science at NYU, home of the Undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. programs in Data Science.

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