3 papers
cs.LG2026
Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
cs.SI2026
Embeddings of Nation-Level Social Networks
Tanzir Pial, Flavio Hafner, Dakota Handzlik +6
Full nation-scale social networks are now emerging from countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark, but these networks present challenging technical issues in working with large…
cs.CL2025
Exploring Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer via Transliteration-Based MLM Fine-Tuning for Critically Low-resource Chakma Language
Adity Khisa, Nusrat Jahan Lia, Tasnim Mahfuz Nafis +4
As an Indo-Aryan language with limited available data, Chakma remains largely underrepresented in language models. In this work, we introduce a novel corpus of contextually coheren…