Lab Notes

Working records and research detail pages.

Research is the public paper index. Lab Notes is the archive around the papers: local detail pages, figures, slides, corrected runs, system briefs, and implementation notes.

KALAVAI belongs here as a full research note because it carries the paper, figures, slides, artifacts, and related system context. The arXiv link stays inside that page and in the research index.

Release NoteAgaram

Agaram 2.5B: a Tamil model trained from scratch

A 2.5B Tamil–English model pretrained on 50B tokens for about USD 4,765 on one rented 8×H100 node: the tokenizer, the data, the single run, fine-tuning, benchmarks against Sarvam-1, and what it gets wrong.

Open Agaram 2.5B note
Research NoteKALAVAI

When does independent specialist fusion work?

Local KALAVAI archive with abstract, core thesis, figures, findings, slides, PDF, arXiv, model artifacts, and related systems.

Open KALAVAI note
ExperimentRouting

Router confidence sweeps

Stress tests across fused specialists, hybrid-domain prompts, ACAR self-consistency variance, and evolutionary LoRA routing boundaries.

Release NoteQuantization

37,152 tensors, one flat landscape, one wrong index

GLM-5.3-Flash-NVFP4-Murai for 2× DGX Spark — a per-tensor sensitivity map, a data-free recipe 23% below stock, and a root-caused vLLM repack bug that corrupts every ModelOpt-packed NVFP4 MoE checkpoint.

Open GLM-5.3-Flash NVFP4 note
BenchmarkEvaluation

Two Flash Models on Two DGX Sparks

Behavioral teardown of GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2× DGX Spark — 40-probe battery, blind-scored creative eval, raw transcripts.

Open flash teardown note
System BriefEmbodied

Chitti companion OS

Household companion OS work: local voice, identity, memory, expression, HAL adapters, and agent handoff.

System BriefMotion

MEIPPATTU motion capture

Bharatanatyam motion capture, music annotation, and motion generation as cultural-AI infrastructure.