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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LLM Benchmarks - The Horse and the Rider

The famous benchmarks saturated and leaked. The agentic ones replacing them score a model and the code driving it together, and cannot tell the two apart.

MCTS and AlphaZero - Four Steps in the Dark, Part 2

AlphaGo gave tree search a policy and a value network. AlphaGo Zero made the search the network's teacher, in an update that sits close to PPO's.

MCTS and AlphaZero - Four Steps in the Dark, Part 1

Why game programs search a tree, why they fill it with random games, and what plain Monte Carlo tree search does on real Go and chess positions.

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.

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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...