3 papers
cs.LG2026
From BERT to Frontier Agents: Eight Years of Language-Model Progress, the Collapse of the Capability-Cost Curve, and the Rise of Task-Targeted Models
Pranav Kumar Kaliaperumal
Between October 2018 and July 2026 AI models progressed from simple systems like BERT to massive agents that solve complex math and write software. The ability to resolve real codi…
cs.CV2026
Trustworthy Medical Segmentation: Uncertainty-Aware U-Net Evaluation Under Clinical Image Degradation
Pranav Kaliaperumal, Manisha Kaliaperumal
Medical image segmentation models often report high benchmark accuracy under ideal imaging conditions, yet their failures under clinical degradation can be quiet: sensor noise, pat…
cs.LG2026
Activation Outliers in Transformer Quantization: Reproduction, Statistical Analysis, and Deployment Tradeoffs
Pranav Kumar Kaliaperumal
Post-training quantization (PTQ) of transformers is known to suffer from severe accuracy degradation due to structured activation outliers, as originally analyzed by Bondarenko et…