4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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At sufficiently large scale, data can outperform human-designed concepts incorporated into models.

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

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“So I think in our case, these hybrid models might be still the thing to go for. But more and more, of course, and this is I think this, I don't know if you can call it sad, but the honest learning from, from big scale machine learning is that at some point data beats human-made additional concepts in these models.”
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