Chandram Dutta
Software Engineer at Adora. 2x Apple Swift Student Challenge Winner. Graduated from VIT Vellore majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Blog
- The Termination Circuit (how reasoning models stop thinking).
Reasoning models since the dawn of o1 and R1 have a tendency to overthink. Despite a lot of work on early-exit methods and steering, open-weight and smaller reasoning models still produce long chains of thought before they answer. I worked on discovering how much of that thinking is required before the model already knows the answer and what makes the model stop thinking.
- Linear Probes add little for Verifiable Reward Hacking
Linear probes achieve near-perfect AUC at detecting reward hacks but add almost nothing over simple output checks. An experiment with GRPO on Qwen2.5-0.5B shows the limits of mechanistic interpretability when hacks are easily verifiable from the output.
- Notes on 'A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits'
My notes and understanding based on Anthropic's 'A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits' paper.
Research
- CAN-DAQ: An open-source, cost-effective data capture device and software for automotive research
HardwareX · Elsevier ·
- Device to Measure Respiratory Rate in Children, in Resource Poor Settings
Sensing and Imaging · Springer ·
- Programmable Wireless Adapter for Commercial Electric Drives and Multifunction Meters
Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT) · IEEE ·