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Sina Zarieß is giving the KONVENS keynote on training BabyLMs #nlproc
The slide shows the number of words a 12yo human has seen in their lifetime compared to the numbers of words typical language models have seen in training #llm

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

Empirical Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Package Selection: A Knowledge Graph Approach
Siamak Farshidi, Amir Saberhabibi, Behbod Eskafi, Niloofar Nikfarjam, Sadegh Eskandari, Slinger Jansen, Michel Chaudron, Bedir Tekinerdogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05693

Empirical Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Package Selection: A Knowledge Graph Approach
Selecting third-party software packages in open-source ecosystems like Python is challenging due to the large number of alternatives and limited transparent evidence for comparison. Generative AI tools are increasingly used in development workflows, but their suggestions often overlook dependency evaluation, emphasize popularity over suitability, and lack reproducibility. This creates risks for projects that require transparency, long-term reliability, maintainability, and informed architectura…

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…

Generalized Krylov Complexity
Amin Faraji Astaneh, Niloofar Vardian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23739 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23739

Generalized Krylov Complexity
We extend the concept of Krylov complexity to include general unitary evolutions involving multiple generators. This generalization enables us to formulate a framework for generalized Krylov complexity, which serves as a measure of the complexity of states associated with continuous symmetries within a model. Furthermore, we investigate scenarios where different directions of transformation lead to varying degrees of complexity, which can be compared to geometric approaches to understanding com…