SE Radio 724: Jure Leskovec on Relational Graph and Foundational Models

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Jure Leskovec discusses the importance of relational and graph language models in predictive modeling and enterprise decision-making.

Jure Leskovec , Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Chief Scientist at Kumo.ai, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about relational and graph language models and their transformative impact on enterprise decision-making and predictive modeling. Jure begins by establishing the critical importance of predictive modeling across industries - from fraud detection in financial institutions to customer churn prediction, lifetime value estimation, product recommendations, and healthcare risk assessment. He notes that while AI has made remarkable advances in natural language understanding and computer vision, predictive modeling over enterprise operational data stored in relational databases has been largely left behind, still relying on 30-year-old machine learning approaches that are expensive, time-consuming, and require manual feature engineering. His proposed solution to the fundamental problem with current approaches is relational deep learning and relational transformers. The discussion explores how this approach differs from traditional graph neural networks (GNNs), which Jure pioneered and deployed successfully at Pinterest. Jure concludes with practical guidance…

People in this episode

Host: Sriram Panyam

Guest: Jure Leskovec

Topics covered

• predictive modeling
• relational deep learning
• graph language models
• enterprise decision-making
• machine learning
• data science

Keywords

• predictive modeling
• relational databases
• graph neural networks
• machine learning
• AI
• data science
• enterprise applications

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Organizations: Stanford University, Kumo.ai, Pinterest

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