3 papers
cs.CL2026
Sample More, Reflect Less: Self-Refine and Reflexion Lose to Repeated Sampling at Equal Token Cost, from 1.5B to 7B
Iliya Mirzaei
Methods that make a language model plan, criticise and rewrite its own answer, reflect on mistakes, pick the best of several attempts, or debate with copies of itself nearly all ma…
cs.DC2026
Fair on the Surface: Transaction-Ordering Bias and MEV in Mysticeti DAG-based BFT Protocol
Iliya Mirzaei, Mohammad Javad Amiri
Distributed systems deployed in untrustworthy environments agree on a common transaction order through Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, and that order has real f…
cs.NI2026
Stateless Network-Aware Adaptive Bitrate Streaming over IPFS
Iliya Mirzaei, Shabnam Jafarzade Mojaveri, Amirhossein Najafizadeh
Modern content delivery is increasingly decentralized, improving availability, cost, and reach for geographically distributed users. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a prom…