Hi! I'm Shreeya Dhakal, an Applied Scientist specializing in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), with a particular passion for low-resource NLP, especially in South Asian languages.

Welcome to #icodeformyभाषा! In this blog I will be exploring the intricacies of Nepali grammar. I am fascinated by rich morphology of Nepali and that passion is what fuels #icodeformyभाषा. In addition, I will also write on architecture and foundations of LLMs and discuss my research and findings in low-resource NLP.

You can also find me on LinkedIn!

Recent and upcoming work:

• In Whose Weights and Biases?, my first opinion piece, I discussed how how firms like Open AI, Meta, Google and Anthropic are taking ethics and safety into considerations when training and deploying AI models. Drawing from the recent research and news, I evaluate how the narrow lens of global tech might still fall short in developing AI for all.

• Llama 3 Deep Dive Series: Examine different components of Meta’s Llama 3 model from a multi-lingual lens. First, second, third and fourth posts of the series are out! This is it for now, but in future I will revisit some of the popular techniques/algorithms used by LLaMA that I did not cover in details in this series.

• Collecting reading materials and courses on ML, NLP and Gen AI.

  • First curated reading list on Large Language Models is out!

• Two short posts in the month of September.

• New Series Alert!!! TinyBits - All about Tiny Models.

• Weekly one minute digest on Substack notes and LinkedIn.

Please reach via dms if you are interested in collaborating on the opinion piece or collecting reading materials!