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Research & Engineering Notes

Sharing insights on computer vision, machine learning and system engineering from ongoing research work.

Computer Vision

Efficient OCR Pipeline for Low-Resource Environments

An in-depth look at building a lightweight optical character recognition system that runs on edge devices with limited compute, focusing on model quantization and inference optimization.

April 2, 2026  ·  8 min read
Deep Learning

Attention Mechanisms in Document Understanding Models

Exploring how modern transformer-based architectures handle complex document layouts, including tables, forms, and multi-column text, and what makes them work so well in practice.

March 18, 2026  ·  11 min read
Systems

Deploying ML Services on Budget Cloud Infrastructure

Practical guide to running model inference services efficiently on cost-constrained cloud VMs, covering containerization, resource tuning, and request batching strategies.

March 5, 2026  ·  7 min read
Tools

Setting Up a Reproducible Research Environment with Git and Conda

Thoughts on managing experiment reproducibility across different machines and collaborators — version pinning, environment exports, and when containers make sense.

February 20, 2026  ·  5 min read