Narendiran Chembu

Trying to understand this resplendent chaos called life. You can read more about me or check out my blog and projects

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Jev - The Classifier Strikes Back

Jev returns typed, calibrated decisions instead of text. Underneath, it looks like a very good zero-shot classifier, and calibration is the claim to test.

Mamba - Is Attention All You Really Need? Part 2

Selection broke the convolution that made state space models fast to train. Here is how Mamba got the speed back, and why attention stayed in the room.

Mamba - Is Attention All You Really Need? Part 1

State space models come from control theory, run like an RNN and train like a CNN. Mamba's one change lets each word decide what the model remembers.

Knowledge Distillation - The Perfumer's Apprentice

The label says rose. The teacher's nose says rose, some jasmine, and definitely not vanilla, and that last part is what the small model actually learns.

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Legal Research Assistant

On the cover: Legal Research Assistant Platform This project was delivered for MiAI.law, an Australian legal technology firm, to build a modern AI-driven system f...

AI-Driven Quantitative Risk Analysis

On the cover: Digitized Process Flow Diagram (PFD) with highlighted Elementary Process Sections (EPS) and graph This work was conducted at Saudi Aramco. The proje...