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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Voice Models - Press to Talk

A model that can hear and speak still cannot hold a conversation. The hard part is knowing when to start, and being willing to stop.

Voice Models - Writing Down a Concert

Sound has to become a short list of symbols before a language model can speak it. The method that works writes each frame down in eight passes.

Test-Time Compute - Order One More Test

A model can be made better after it is trained, just by letting it answer for longer. Almost all of that gain comes from the thing that checks the answer.

Tokenizers - Out of Sorts

A model's vocabulary is fitted by counting pairs and frozen before training starts, and it decides what the model can spell, add up and charge you.

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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...