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I'm Feonixid (Laerti Shabani) — a student and an independent ML researcher from the Balkans. Everything I build is connected by one simple thread: AI. I want to understand how intelligence emerges from training and move the needle closer to AGI one small step at a time.
My entire lab is two Kaggle T4s and a bit of obsessiveness.
Every project ships with code, raw per-seed results, and a single canonical reproduction script. Failed runs and negative results are reported, not hidden because honesty about the work is the whole point.
| Repo | The question it asks | The answer so far |
|---|---|---|
| Curvature-Grokking | Does the commutator defect cause grokking? | Yes — causally, and asymmetrically. |
| Exterior-Memory | When does skew-symmetric wedge memory help? | Not for recall (60/60 losses). Fine for aggregation. |
| Router-Drift | Does explicit router supervision stop catastrophic forgetting in MoE? | No. Diagnosed exactly why, proposed a partial fix. |
| TFM-Feature-Gap | Do tabular foundation models close the feature-engineering gap? | It depends on the dataset — verified against real Kaggle leaderboards. |
| Self-Calibrating Gradient Tuning | Should every token get the same gradient signal? | No. SGT reallocates per token, no proxy model needed. |
- Curvature-Grokking → 10.5281/zenodo.22666518
- Exterior-Memory → 10.5281/zenodo.22546354
- Self-Calibrating Gradient Tuning → 10.5281/zenodo.22666544
A flagship project exists. It's staying private until I reveal it.
- Honesty about the work — floor effects, non-reproducing baselines, all of it goes in the paper.
- Doing more with less compute — good science shouldn't require a data center. Good thing too.
- Novelty — if something is already known, I want to know why it works.
- ML: PyTorch, Kaggle (T4 ×2 — see: research philosophy)
- Papers: LaTeX
- Languages: Python · C · Luau (yes the Roblox one it's how the game dev started) · JavaScript · HTML · Bash
- Currently learning: higher-level mathematics the kind my repos keep reaching for. The repos only cover the applied side so far.
- Game development in Luau
- Front-end builds for my school
- Cybersecurity