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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…