Weekly Media Update

Week of July 25, 2025

AI Used for Real-Time Selection of Actionable Messages for Government and Public Health Campaigns

A collaborative study by Dolores Albarracín and Annenberg School for Communication Research Associate Professor Man-pui Sally Chan suggests that AI can facilitate theory- and evidence-based message selection for government and public health campaigns.

Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship

Screenwriters in search of the next Timon and Pumbaa may want to look to the Amazon, where unlikely ocelot-opossum duos have been filmed hanging out together. “We tend to underestimate how much cooperation there is in nature,” said Erol Akçay to the New York Times.

Artificial Intelligence Course at the Engineering Summer Academy

7/24: Penn Engineering AI | Robert Ghrist

Remote Stands, Bus Boarding, and Last-Minute Gates: A Tale of Two Airport Systems

7/21: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

7/21: Penn Engineering Today | Chris Callison-Burch

Probabilistic Soundness Guarantees in LLM Reasoning Chains

7/19: Workshop on Actionable Interpretability at ICML 2025 | Chris Callison-Burch

Methods and Opportunities at Small Scale Workshop Organizing Committee

7/19: MOSS at ICML 2025 | Surbhi Goel

Conformal Prediction Beyond the Seen: A Missing Mass Perspective for Uncertainty Quantification in Generative Models

7/19: R2-FM Workshop at ICML 2025 | Hamed Hassani

Conformal Risk Minimization With Variance Reduction

7/19: R2-FM Workshop at ICML 2025 | Hamed Hassani

Sum-of-Parts: Self-Attributing Neural Networks With End-to-End Learning of Feature Groups

7/19: Workshop on Actionable Interpretability at ICML 2025 | Bhuvnesh Jain

MARSHA: Multi-Agent RAG System for Hazard Adaptation

7/19: npj Climate Action | Weijie Su

ZeroTuning: Unlocking the Initial Token's Power to Enhance Large Language Models Without Training

7/19: MOSS at ICML 2025 | Lyle Ungar

The Next AI Breakthrough Will Be How Well Your Agent Knows You

7/18: Semafor | Michael Kearns

MARSHA: Multi-Agent RAG System for Hazard Adaptation

7/18: Workshop on MAS at ICML 2025 | Weijie Su

Probabilistic Soundness Guarantees in LLM Reasoning Chains

7/17: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

Carbon Market Auditing Process Inherently Flawed, Concludes New Paper

7/17: Carbon Market Watch | Cary Coglianese

Trump Promised to Make Pennsylvania an AI Hub, but How Will It Be Powered?

7/16: CBS News | Benjamin C. Lee

Networked Information Aggregation via Machine Learning

7/13: arXiv | Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth

Euclid: Early Release Observations. A Combined Strong and Weak Lensing Solution for Abell 2390 Beyond Its Virial Radius

7/11: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain

Imitation Learning in Continuous Action Spaces: Mitigating Compounding Error Without Interaction

7/11: arXiv | Nikolai Matni 

On the Parallel Complexity of Finding a Matroid Basis

7/10: arXiv | Sanjeev Khanna

Block Designs That Provide Optimal Power in the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Test

7/10: arXiv | Abba Krieger 

Effect of Static vs. Conversational AI-Generated Messages on Colorectal Cancer Screening Intent: a Randomized Controlled Trial

7/10: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Big AI Makes Another Move Into Education

7/9: Marketplace | Hamsa Bastani 

Third-Party Auditing Cannot Guarantee Carbon Offset Credibility

6/15: Penn Law School Public Law Research Paper | Cary Coglianese 

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