October 6, 2025

Readings

1. "The rise of large language models", Nature Computational Science (via Florent)
2. "Retrieval-Augmented Guardrails for AI-Drafted Patient-Portal Messages: Error Taxonomy Construction and Large-Scale Evaluation", arXiv pre-print (via Florent)
3. "LoRA Without Regret", Thinking Machines (via James)

Nature Focus Page

Resources

• LoRA, explained by the primary author

Discussion

• Paper #2: What was the productivity gain?

For Next Time

Read these:

• "Computational challenges arising in algorithmic fairness and health equity with generative AI"
• "Multimodal learning for mapping genotype–phenotype dynamics"
• "SciToolAgent: a knowledge-graph-driven scientific agent for multitool integration"

LoRA and Fine-Tuning

• LoRA vs Full Fine-tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence