devanagari script 1handwritten character recognition 1knowledge distillation 1model robustness 1parameter-efficient models 1
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cs.CV2026
Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation
Ashish Thapa, Samrat Karki
The paper presents a compact 1.11 M‑parameter convolutional network for handwritten Devanagari character recognition that achieves 99.73% accuracy, matching larger models while bei…
cs.SD2026
sanoTTS: The Smallest Real-Time Neural TTS on a General-Purpose Microcontroller
Ashish Thapa
This paper describes an audited neural text-to-speech stack that runs from phoneme IDs to 22.05-kHz PCM on general-purpose microcontrollers. Its deployed graph has 567,008 paramete…