Federated learning (FL) enables a set of distributed clients to jointly train machine learning models while preserving their local data privacy, making it attractive for applications in healthcare, finance, mobility, and smart-city systems. However, FL faces several challenges, including statistical heterogeneity and uneven client participation, which can degrade convergence and model quality. In this work, we propose FedPBS, an FL algorithm that couples complementary ideas from FedBS and FedProx to address these challenges. FedPBS dynamically adapts batch sizes […]

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Mirroring Stripe’s API in your database creates errors and extra work. Use the “Master and Mirror” approach: store only Stripe Customer IDs and subscription status in Django, handle updates via webhooks, and query Stripe live for billing details. This keeps your SaaS fast, accurate, and resilient to API changes while eliminating premium access bugs.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer severe catastrophic forgetting when adapted sequentially to new tasks in a continual learning (CL) setting. Existing approaches are fundamentally limited: replay-based methods are impractical and privacy-violating, while strict orthogonality-based methods collapse under scale: each new task is projected onto an orthogonal complement, progressively reducing the residual degrees of freedom and eliminating forward transfer by forbidding overlap in shared representations. In this work, we introduce ELLA, a training framework built on the principle of […]

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arXiv:2602.22339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines the analysis of package power consumption using Intel’s telemetry data. It challenges the prevailing belief that hardware choice is the primary determinant of a device’s power consumption and instead emphasizes the significant role of user behavior. The paper includes two sections: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and a linear model for power consumption. The EDA section provides valuable insights from Intel’s telemetry data, comparing power consumption across countries, with a specific […]

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Byline: K.H. Koehler A new study is challenging how many approach the concept of intelligence, life, and evolution, and it is doing so by moving beyond massive AI models. The current research paper, “To Wake a Stone with Six Birds,” presents a controlled experiment designed to test if life-like behavior can emerge from inert systems. It attempts to show that the properties we tend to associate with life, such as a forward-moving directive, fixing existing damage, and forming […]

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arXiv:2603.12465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference is widely used in interactive assistants and agentic systems. In latency-sensitive deployments, inference time can become dominated by host-side overheads. Existing approaches typically expose this cost only as an aggregate residual or a launch/queue metric, which is often insufficient to identify which execution layer should be optimized. This work presents TaxBreak, a trace-driven methodology for decomposing host-visible orchestration overhead into three components: framework translation time, CUDA library translation […]

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arXiv:2602.20164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation offers a transformative pathway to developing powerful, yet efficient, small language models (SLMs) suitable for resource-constrained environments. In this paper, we benchmark the performance and computational cost of distilled models against their vanilla and proprietary counterparts, providing a quantitative analysis of their efficiency. Our results demonstrate that distillation creates a superior performance-tocompute curve. We find that creating a distilled 8B model is over 2,000 times more compute-efficient than training its vanilla […]

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