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Compact AI model achieves benchmark saturation for Devanagari recognition

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Researchers have developed a highly efficient convolutional neural network, named Barnamala, for recognizing handwritten Devanagari script. This compact model, with only 1.11 million parameters, achieves a benchmark saturation accuracy of 99.73% on the DHCD dataset, significantly outperforming larger models in terms of size and efficiency. Barnamala also demonstrates strong zero-shot performance on the CMATERdb dataset and superior robustness against data corruption compared to its larger counterparts. AI

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Compact AI model achieves benchmark saturation for Devanagari recognition

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ashish Thapa, Samrat Karki ·

    Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation

    arXiv:2607.13689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We built a compact convolutional network (1.11 M parameters) for 46-class DHCD Devanagari recognition and reached 99.73%, the highest reported at 15.6x smaller than prior state-of-the-art. We have effectively reached the saturatio…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Samrat Karki ·

    Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation

    We built a compact convolutional network (1.11 M parameters) for 46-class DHCD Devanagari recognition and reached 99.73%, the highest reported at 15.6x smaller than prior state-of-the-art. We have effectively reached the saturation point: every model tested, large teacher ensembl…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation

    We built a compact convolutional network (1.11 M parameters) for 46-class DHCD Devanagari recognition and reached 99.73%, the highest reported at 15.6x smaller than prior state-of-the-art. We have effectively reached the saturation point: every model tested, large teacher ensembl…

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