Projects

Research projects and implementations from my CV, with short writeups on the question, method, and current direction.

Completed
completed

Substitutability-Based Grammar Induction

A grammar induction project that looks for structural equivalences in shared contexts rather than relying on token frequency.

grammar-inductionNLPcompressionPythonRust
completed

Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Text Embeddings

An investigation into whether evolutionary search can exploit text embedding spaces without gradient access.

text-embeddingsadversarial-mlRAGPyTorchEvoTorch
completed

Transformer Implementation from Scratch

A decoder-only transformer implemented in pure JAX, with explicit parameters, manual gradients, and no high-level neural network framework.

transformersJAXeinopsdeep-learning