In the world of data analytics, something ironic is happening:
AI systems are getting smarter — yet their answers sound more and more alike.
Ask any model “Which products generate the most revenue?”,
and you’ll likely get nearly identical responses — same tone, same logic, same conclusion.
This is known as mode collapse — when a model learns to be safe and agreeable, but stops exploring new possibilities.
🧠 What We Learned from “Verbalized Sampling”
A recent paper — Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity — offered a fascinating idea:
The loss of diversity doesn’t come from the model itself, but from the data we use to train it.
Human annotators often prefer “typical” answers — so the model learns to please, not to think.
The authors proposed a simple but powerful idea:
Before producing an answer, let the model verbalize several candidate options, then choose among them.
This verbalized sampling process reintroduces reasoning, comparison, and variation — leading to richer, more diverse outputs.
⚙️ How DataGPT Applies This Idea
In Coomia DataGPT, we follow a similar principle.
When you ask:
“Which customer segments have the highest retention?”
Instead of generating one SQL query, DataGPT:
Thinks through multiple possible query paths (by region, age group, or acquisition channel);
Evaluates which ones produce statistically significant insights;
Chooses the most meaningful results and presents them with explanations.
You don’t just get an answer —
you get an answer that feels like it was reasoned out by an analyst team.
🚀 Why It Matters
Data analytics is not about finding one answer.
It’s about discovering patterns, anomalies, and perspectives.
An AI data copilot must not only understand SQL,
but also think like a curious human — exploring multiple viewpoints before concluding.
That’s what inspired us to make Coomia DataGPT a system that truly thinks before it answers.
🌐 What’s Next
We’re extending this multi-path thinking approach to:
Automated data governance and quality analysis
Richer integrations (Trino, Doris, ClickHouse, BigQuery)
Advanced visualizations and data storytelling
Coomia DataGPT isn’t here to replace analysts —
it’s here to be their AI Data Copilot — private, fast, and insightful.
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