Data and Information

Information Theory

The definition and measurement of information is fundamental to methods for information retrieval, text mining, and machine learning.

Privacy-Preserving Library Analytics

A local small-model system for interpretable analysis of library survey data while keeping sensitive institutional data under local control.

Retrieval Granularity as Evidence Design in Small-Model RAG Question Answering: A Diagnostic HotpotQA Study

A diagnostic HotpotQA study of how retrieval granularity shapes evidence recovery, answer quality, context budgets, and resource use for small-model RAG.

Beyond Cross-Entropy: Discounted Least Information Theory of Entropy (DLITE) Loss and the Impact of Loss Functions on AI-Driven Named Entity Recognition

An empirical study of DLITE loss and the effect of loss-function choice on AI-driven named entity recognition.