Blog posts

2023

Implementation and Empirical Analysis of Multi-Armed Bandit Problem

23 minute read

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Welcome to my latest blog post! Today, I am excited to share my recent exploration into the fascinating world of reinforcement learning, specifically focusing on the multi-armed bandit problem and its various solutions. As a foundation for my implementation, I closely followed the insightful book, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (second edition) by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto. Read more

Critical Analysis: Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on typical tabular data?

5 minute read

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It is an annotated criticism on the paper Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on typical tabular data?. A personal view on why it was accepted for publication at NEURIPS 2022 is discussed along with a brief description of the key contributions and the significance of the findings presented in the paper. Also, some of the key strengths and weaknesses with this paper, the approach taken by the authors, and the clarity and ease of understanding of the writing are discussed herewith. Read more

2022

Finetuning XLS-R(Wav2Vec2) on OpenSLR Nepali ASR Dataset

30 minute read

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Wav2Vec2 is a pretrained model for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and was released in September 2020 by Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli, and Alex Conneau. Soon after the superior performance of Wav2Vec2 was demonstrated on one of the most popular English datasets for ASR, called LibriSpeech, Facebook AI presented a multi-lingual version of Wav2Vec2, called XLSR. XLSR stands for cross-lingual speech representations and refers to model’s ability to learn speech representations that are useful across multiple languages. Read more

2020