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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World Models - The Film Set That Never Runs Out of Street

Learned simulators generate the street instead of building it. Genie 3, Cosmos and GAIA-3 all look right, and looking right is the cheap part.

Speculative Decoding - Is Attention All You Really Need?

One token costs a full read of every weight in the model. Speculative decoding guesses eight, checks them in a single read, and changes nothing.

Solving Chess - Paths, Nodes and the Proof Nobody Has

Musk and Chess.com were counting different things. Solving chess was never about the tree's size, but about proving which branches you can skip.

LeJEPA - Good in Every Direction

Five years of self-supervised learning ran on superstition. LeJEPA replaces the EMA teacher, the stop-gradient and the rest with one provable term.

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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...