3 papers
cs.LG2026
The Blessing of Dimensionality: How Near-Orthogonality in High-Dimensional Spaces Explains Temporal Portability
Abigail Woodring, Adrian Chan, Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan +3
Fine-tuning has been widely used to adapt large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific tasks. Parameter efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods such as low-rank adaptation (LoRA)…
cs.CV2025
HATFormer: Historic Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition with Transformers
Adrian Chan, Anupam Mijar, Mehreen Saeed +2
Arabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) is challenging, especially for historical texts, due to diverse writing styles and the intrinsic features of Arabic script. Additionally,…
cs.CV2025
Muharaf: Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic Dataset for Cursive Text Recognition
Mehreen Saeed, Adrian Chan, Anupam Mijar +6
We present the Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic~(Muharaf) dataset, which is a machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1,600 historic handwritten page images transcribed b…