Great talk by Sander Dieleman (Sander Dieleman, Google Deepmind and @UGent alumnus) at #NeurIPS2024 Workshops in Vancouver, BC (Canada) on autoregression vs diffusion for iterative refinement. Visit his great blog: sander.ai #NeurIPS #AI

Incorporating context into forecasting improves performance on average. Llama 3.1 405b seems to work best. Great talk by Valentina Zantedeschi (ServiceNow) at the time-series workshop at #neurips24 #NeurIPS #NeurIPS2024 #AI #LLM

Today, we are at the 2025 Flanders Make Scientific Conference in Leuven. CVAMO also has several posters at the event. It’s a great event for scientific networking. #FlandersMake #ORMS #MANPROCAD #REMASC #CVAMO

CVAMO @FlandersMake UGent UGent Machineries & Factories BigData_UGent Picture with all three authors of the #REMASC #FlandersMake poster.

CVAMO @FlandersMake UGent UGent Machineries & Factories BigData_UGent Congrats to Yaël, Wannes, and Brammert for receiving the Best Poster Award for End-to-End Design Operation. #Awesome #REMASC #FlandersMake

Great talk by Matthew A. Lanham on the #data4good competition at INFORMS’ #MAPD 2025 (Meeting of Analytics Program Directors at 2025Analytics) in Indianapolis, IN #predictiveanalytics #analytics #machinelearning #INFORMS

Elena Gerstmann (Elena Gerstmann, Executive Director) takes the stage at the 2025 INFORMS Analytics+ Conference. #Analytics 2025Analytics #ORMS

Great application of optimization techniques in sports: USA Cycling (USA Cycling) has been awarded the 2025 INFORMS Edelman Award at 2025Analytics in Indianapolis, IN, the “Nobel Prize” of Operations Research, for its innovative use of O.R. and analytics in sports performance.

Great panel discussion during the UGent FEB Research Day 2025 with representatives from Flanders Make, KPMG, OMP, UGent Industrial Research Fund. #PhDResearch #IndustrialResearchFund #Startups #GhentUniversity CVAMO #ecosystem UGentFEB

Last week, the 2025 Edition of our “Current Data Science for Business Students Meet Alumni” Event took place at UGentFEB (Ghent University). #ORMS #DataScience #DataAnalytics linkedin.com/pulse/current-…

We have lift-off at the 2025 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference in Washington, DC. Hot topics include #GenAI, #LLM, #RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), #Marketing #Analytics, #ecommerce, #ORMS

Today marks the start of presentations of the “Data Science for Business” (@UGent) projects. This particular project is for #FlandersMake using #RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) #LLM technology to build a #chatbot. mma.ugent.be #orms #DataScience

Naive RAG vs. Graph RAG, clearly explained:

We have liftoff at the 2025 KDD Conference in Toronto, ON. #KDD2025 I’m attending the Workshop on AI for Supply Chain relevant to our REMASC. Supply chain planning faces two sources of complexity: radical uncertainty (e.g., use scenario planning) and need for good predictions.

Building scenario planning solutions for supply chain optimization using LLMs (large language models) at the #KDD2025 Workshop AI for Supply Chain. #FlandersMake #REMASC #AI See example on the slides in the pictures.

Great tutorial on efficient and effective search-agent training at #KDD2025 in Toronto. One does not need a lot of data to train a search agent via RL (using S3 compared to R1). #LLM #RAG #RL #R1 #S3

My personal #KDD2025 Day 2 is all about #finance ranging from using AI to enhance safety, AI in credit, and data-driven pricing #AI #llm #timeseries #finetuning #dataleakage

Today, I started with the Test of Time Award talk at the #KDD2025 Conference in Toronto. Superb talk by Hao Wang on Deep Recommender Systems (RECSYS). He gave a great overview of how the field evolved over time, and the next steps. #AI #RecSys

Great talk by Dan Roth on the limitations of using LLMs for reasoning at the #KDD2025 Conference in Toronto. Being linguistically coherent is much easier than we thought (that’s what LLMs have taught us). Use LLMs to generate (Python) code to solve hard problems. #AI #LLMs #ORMS

Great talk by Sumit Gulwani (Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft) on improving AI reasoning by using intent, interaction, inspection, and memory (see last picture) at #KDD2025 in Toronto, Canada. #AI #LLM #CodeGeneration