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\(0^{th}\) announcement for the 2025 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis - October 10 - 12 at #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 .
The web site has a preliminary list of 2025 speakers including our keynote speaker Alexandre Sukhov 🇫🇷 . Online registration and the request form for travel support will be available soon on the web site:

Arbitrary high-fidelity binomial codes from multiphoton spin-boson interactions
Pradip Laha, Peter van Loock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08585 https://

Arbitrary high-fidelity binomial codes from multiphoton spin-boson interactions
Encoding a qubit in the continuous degrees of freedom of a quantum system, such as bosonic modes, is a powerful alternative to modern quantum error correction (QEC). Among the most prominent bosonic QEC codes, binomial codes provide protection against loss and dephasing errors by encoding logical states in superpositions of Fock states with binomially weighted coefficients. While much attention has been given to their error-correcting capabilities and integration into fault-tolerant architectur…

"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

Multi-Faceted Large Embedding Tables for Pinterest Ads Ranking
Runze Su, Jiayin Jin, Jiacheng Li, Sihan Wang, Guangtong Bai, Zelun Wang, Li Tang, Yixiong Meng, Huasen Wu, Zhimeng Pan, Kungang Li, Han Sun, Zhifang Liu, Haoyang Li, Siping Ji, Ling Leng, Prathibha Deshikachar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05700

Multi-Faceted Large Embedding Tables for Pinterest Ads Ranking
Large embedding tables are indispensable in modern recommendation systems, thanks to their ability to effectively capture and memorize intricate details of interactions among diverse entities. As we explore integrating large embedding tables into Pinterest's ads ranking models, we encountered not only common challenges such as sparsity and scalability, but also several obstacles unique to our context. Notably, our initial attempts to train large embedding tables from scratch resulted in neutral…

Asymptotics for aggregated interdependent multivariate subexponential claims with general investment returns
Zhangting Chen, Dimitrios G. Konstantinides, Charalampos D. Passalidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23713

Asymptotics for aggregated interdependent multivariate subexponential claims with general investment returns
This paper investigates asymptotic estimates for the entrance probability of the discounted aggregate claim vector from a multivariate renewal risk model into some rare set. We provide asymptotic results for the entrance probability on both finite and infinite time horizons under various assumptions regarding the stochastic price process of the investment portfolio, the distribution class of claim vectors, and the dependence structure among the claim vectors. We note that the main results exten…