4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Research over decades, including on major datasets, indicates that strong a priori inductive biases may reduce predictive power.

Fabian Theis · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026

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“And I think-- And there I, I, I need to be very clear before we may go into the phil-philosophy. I think literature has really clearly shown over, um I think now decades at, at least for also our very main data sets, that if we build in a priori inductive biases too strongly that we might lose predictive power, right?”
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