Kian Ghodoussi - When Statistics Beats Prompting: A Case Study in Statistical Language Modeling

​Most approaches to LLM hallucination lean on better prompting. Kian Ghodoussi, Data Scientist at Sturdy Statistics, is using statistical models to back LLM answers in grounded data instead. It's a practical, data-first approach to a problem a lot of people are running into.

​Kian will walk through a case study of how statistical language modeling can be used to prevent hallucination and keep LLM outputs grounded. If you're working with LLMs and dealing with reliability issues, or you're curious about where traditional statistics still has an edge, come check it out.

​Schedule

• ​6:00 PM - Doors open, food & drinks

• ​6:30 PM - Talk starts

​Location 419 State Street, Santa Barbara

​We'll have people from Unwrap at our front door to let you in. We share our office with the Downtown Santa Barbara Improvement Association, you'll see the Unwrap sign in front but the front door has their logo. Don't worry, you're in the right spot.