5 papers
Rethinking Handwritten Character Recognition
Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Ashim Shrestha
Non-Latin handwritten character recognition (HCR) remains understudied. Dominant methods consider it as generic image classification, which uses model scale to implicitly learn str…
NepKANUN: A RAG-Based Nepali Legal Assistant
Bhabuk Thapa, Prasiddha Koirala, Ranjit Raut +2
Accessing legal information in Nepal is difficult due to complex terminology, limited resources, and misinformation. We introduce an AI-powered legal assistant that is tailored for…
SCAFFOLD: A Large-Scale Structured Dataset of Computer Science Research Figures with Diagram QA and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Traces
Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Sagun Rai +1
Computer science papers rely heavily on diagrams: architecture drawings, system flowcharts, and pipeline schematics that often carry more information than the text around them. The…
Nepali Legal Expertise through Generative and Extractive Pre-trained Transformers (NepLEGiT)
Ranjit Raut, Tishya Dhakal, Aaryan Shakya +3
The complexity of legal language and limited accessibility to legal information pose significant challenges to justice delivery in Nepal. Traditional legal services remain inaccess…
Deep Reinforcement Learning to Master the Asymmetric Strategy of Baghchal
Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Sagun Rai +2
Baghchal is a two-player asymmetric board game with Nepali origins where four tigers are to capture goats and twenty goats desire to keep tigers in immobility. Although Baghchal ha…