Xiaocong Yang, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:56:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Xiaocong Yang, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 Decentralized Computation: The Hidden Principle Behind Deep Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/the-power-of-decentralization/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:47:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607888 Most breakthroughs in deep learning — from simple neural networks to large language models — are built upon a principle that is much older than AI itself: decentralization. Instead of relying on a powerful “central planner” coordinating and commanding the behaviors of other components, modern deep-learning-based AI models succeed because many simple units interact locally […]

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]]> Neural Networks Are Blurry, Symbolic Systems Are Fragmented. Sparse Autoencoders Help Us Combine Them. https://towardsdatascience.com/neuro-symbolic-systems-the-art-of-compromise-2/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:24:06 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607756 Neural and symbolic models compress the world in fundamentally different ways, and Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) offer a bridge to connect them.

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