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📢 Call for Papers – 3S 2025: Security for Space

There are only a few days left to submit your work for consideration in the first review cycle of 3S 2025 – Security for Space, an international conference dedicated to advancing research at the intersection of space systems and security.

🗓️ Submission Deadline: April 16, 2025

We invite high-quality contributions on topics including (but not limited to):

- Applied crypto for space.

- Avionics (spacecraft) security (security of avionics busses, on board data handling, processors, etc.).

- Ground segment security.

- RF jamming and anti-jamming techniques.

- Security at System level.

- Security for “New Space” and mega-constellations.

- Security of optical space communications.

- Security of space communication protocols (e.g. CCSDS).

- Security of satcom systems (e.g. 5G NTN, DVB-S2, etc.).

- Security of space relays and interplanetary missions.

- Security Policies for space.

- Security assurance, accreditation, and certification

- Software security for Space Systems.

This is a unique opportunity to engage with leading researchers and practitioners in a rapidly evolving domain of critical importance.

🔗 Full call and submission details: lnkd.in/esk3auUz

Please share with your networks — and don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the dialogue shaping the future of secure space technologies.

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An academic snoozefest where scientists brag about making #AI smarter by "improving" how it pays attention—because clearly, that's the only thing holding it back. 🤖📚 Meanwhile, we're still waiting for the day when AI can pay attention to our emails and reply with anything more than a 🤔.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.12962 #Research #AcademicConference #AttentionMechanisms #AIHumor #TechCritique #HackerNews #ngated

arXiv.orgInfinite Retrieval: Attention Enhanced LLMs in Long-Context ProcessingLimited by the context window size of Large Language Models(LLMs), handling various tasks with input tokens exceeding the upper limit has been challenging, whether it is a simple direct retrieval task or a complex multi-hop reasoning task. Although various methods have been proposed to enhance the long-context processing capabilities of LLMs, they either incur substantial post-training costs, or require additional tool modules(e.g.,RAG), or have not shown significant improvement in realistic tasks. Our work observes the correlation between the attention distribution and generated answers across each layer, and establishes the attention allocation aligns with retrieval-augmented capabilities through experiments. Drawing on the above insights, we propose a novel method InfiniRetri that leverages the LLMs's own attention information to enable accurate retrieval across inputs of infinitely length. Our evaluations indicate that InfiniRetri achieves 100% accuracy in the Needle-In-a-Haystack(NIH) test over 1M tokens using a 0.5B parameter model, surpassing other method or larger models and setting a new state-of-the-art(SOTA). Moreover, our method achieves significant performance improvements on real-world benchmarks, with a maximum 288% improvement. In addition, InfiniRetri can be applied to any Transformer-based LLMs without additional training and substantially reduces inference latency and compute overhead in long texts. In summary, our comprehensive studies show InfiniRetri's potential for practical applications and creates a paradigm for retrievaling information using LLMs own capabilities under infinite-length tokens. Code will be released in link.

🚀 We've officially kicked off the Third Annual Conference "The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces" at the University of Freiburg!

📺 Can't join us in person? Follow the event online: t1p.de/conference-2024

Join us for exciting talks and discussions on empire, identity, and historical transitions!

@unifreiburg @dfg_public @empires @mehlera @ManuelaBoatca @metacramer @SchnDa @histodons #konferenz #academicmastodon #phd #histodons #histodon #conference #academicconference #biography #identity #habsburg

📢 Upcoming Conference!

Join us for our third annual conference, “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”, 28-30 Nov 2024 at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Explore how empires influenced lives and how individuals shaped imperial structures.

All are welcome to attend! Details: t1p.de/conference-2024

#empires #empire #histodons #histodon #conference #academicconference #biography #identity #habsburg @histodons @unifreiburg @dfg_public @empires

Shout out to everyone getting ready to present their work at an #AcademicConference!

As academics, we constantly give presentations—in classrooms, at conferences, and at job talks. In other words, we constantly perform. Not all of us are natural or trained performers, but all of us can improve our ability to perform.

Check out our blog for some techniques to help you connect your ideas to your audiences and make your arguments sing. ideasonfire.net/performance-ta

It really is this bad. Getting a #visa for international travel to conferences, meetings, even friends' weddings is a real ordeal for many of us with less 'powerful' passports.
We're missing out on important conversations in our fields because of this; but these events are poorer for our absence too.
#InternationalTravel #AcademicConference #Peripheries

science.org/content/article/vi

www.science.orgVisa bureaucracy makes scientific conferences inaccessible for too many researchers“To truly foster inclusivity, meetings must be hosted in more open countries,” this researcher writes