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NoLBERT: A No Lookahead(back) Foundational Language Model for Empirical Research
Ali Kakhbod, Peiyao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01110 https://arxiv.org/…

NoLBERT: A No Lookahead(back) Foundational Language Model for Empirical Research
We present NoLBERT, a lightweight, timestamped foundational language model for empirical research in social sciences, particularly in economics and finance. By pre-training exclusively on 1976-1995 text, NoLBERT avoids both lookback and lookahead biases that can undermine econometric inference. It exceeds domain-specific baselines on NLP benchmarks while maintaining temporal consistency. Applied to patent texts, NoLBERT enables the construction of firm-level innovation networks and shows that g…

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Position: Privacy Is Not Just Memorization!
Niloofar Mireshghallah, Tianshi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01645 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01645

Position: Privacy Is Not Just Memorization!
The discourse on privacy risks in Large Language Models (LLMs) has disproportionately focused on verbatim memorization of training data, while a constellation of more immediate and scalable privacy threats remain underexplored. This position paper argues that the privacy landscape of LLM systems extends far beyond training data extraction, encompassing risks from data collection practices, inference-time context leakage, autonomous agent capabilities, and the democratization of surveillance thr…

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VL-KnG: Visual Scene Understanding for Navigation Goal Identification using Spatiotemporal Knowledge Graphs
Mohamad Al Mdfaa, Svetlana Lukina, Timur Akhtyamov, Arthur Nigmatzyanov, Dmitrii Nalberskii, Sergey Zagoruyko, Gonzalo Ferrer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01483

VL-KnG: Visual Scene Understanding for Navigation Goal Identification using Spatiotemporal Knowledge Graphs
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown potential for robot navigation but encounter fundamental limitations: they lack persistent scene memory, offer limited spatial reasoning, and do not scale effectively with video duration for real-time application. We present VL-KnG, a Visual Scene Understanding system that tackles these challenges using spatiotemporal knowledge graph construction and computationally efficient query processing for navigation goal identification. Our approach processes vid…

Layered Normalized Min-Sum Decoding with Bit Flipping for FDPC Codes
Niloufar Hosseinzadeh, Mohsen Moradi, Hessam Mahdavifar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01019 https://

Layered Normalized Min-Sum Decoding with Bit Flipping for FDPC Codes
Fair-density parity-check (FDPC) codes have been recently introduced demonstrating improved performance compared to low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes standardized in 5G systems particularly in high-rate regimes. In this paper, we introduce a layered normalized min-sum (LNMS) message-passing decoding algorithm for the FDPC codes. We also introduce a syndrome-guided bit flipping (SGBF) method to enhance the error-correction performance of our proposed decoder. The LNMS decoder leverages confl…

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Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt
Mehmet Erman Erol, Cagatay Edgucan Sahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25152 http…

Labour unions under neoliberal authoritarianism in the Global South: the cases of Turkey and Egypt
This article analyses the trajectories of organised labour in times of neoliberalism in Turkey and Egypt and their current condition under securitised neoliberal-developmentalist regimes post-2013. Neoliberal experience in these countries was marked by continuing authoritarianism, challenging the view that economic liberalisation would lead to political democratisation. One of the most important areas of neoliberal restructuring has been labour markets. In order to achieve this, struggles over …