THE SOTA LAB · SCHOLARLY ARCHIVE & TECHNICAL MONOGRAPHS

Publications

Methodology notes, preprints, and open technical reports released by The Sota Lab. All code, datasets, and mathematical formalisms are open for peer reproduction.

2026(3 publications)

Technical Report · Darkroom Systems Engineering Technical Reports (PS-TR-2026-01)

Probabilistic Modelling · Bayesian Inference · Capability Measurement

Probabilistic Modelling of Latent Human Capability from Sparse Observation Streams

Daniel Mahandana, Narvin M., Thabang K.

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Working Paper · Working Paper in Computational Labour Economics

Skills Taxonomies · NLP · TVET · OFO/ESCO

Skills Intelligence in TVET Ecosystems: Contextual Extraction and Standardized Ontologies

Daniel Mahandana, Systems Lab Group

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Technical Report · Technical Note on Measurement Engines

Computerized Adaptive Testing · Information Gain · Item Response Theory

Adaptive Measurement via Maximum Information-Gain Item Routing

Systems Engineering Team, Daniel Mahandana

2025(1 publications)

Preprint · Computational Systems & Learning Analytics Research Archive

Skill Decay · Benchmarks · Monte Carlo

Tracking Skill Obsolescence: A Comparative Study of Moving Average and Bayesian Estimators

Daniel Mahandana, Narvin M.

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