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Compression, But Make It Pedagogical: Rate–Distortion KGs for Smarter AI Learning Assistants

Training teams know the ritual. Someone uploads lecture slides, notebooks, policy manuals, onboarding decks, or certification material into an AI tool. The system dutifully produces quiz questions. Some are useful. Some are bland. Some include giveaway answers. Some test trivia. Some hallucinate just enough to be annoying but not enough to be obviously illegal. Everyone nods, calls it “AI-assisted learning,” and then quietly sends the outputs to a human reviewer. Automation, but with adult supervision. So, normal Tuesday. ...

November 20, 2025 · 19 min · Zelina
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From Sobol to Sinkhorn: A Transport Revolution in Sensitivity Analysis

TL;DR for operators Models rarely fail because nobody ran a sensitivity analysis. They fail because the sensitivity analysis answered the convenient question instead of the relevant one. The paper behind gsaot introduces an R package for Optimal Transport-based global sensitivity analysis.1 Its practical value is not that it makes Sobol’ indices obsolete. It does not. The useful shift is narrower and more interesting: gsaot estimates how much the entire output distribution changes when an input is known, rather than asking only how much of the output variance can be attributed to that input. ...

July 27, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina