Khushan Borse
Selected Work · Engineering Systems

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Architectures in computer vision, parameter-efficient language models, and foundational deep learning.

01Computer Vision · Deep Learning
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Satellite Semantic Segmentation

Encoder-decoder segmentation pipeline featuring a custom boundary fusion module engineered for pixel-level classification of high-resolution satellite imagery.

Mean IoU
84.6%
Dice Score
89.2%
Evaluation Datasets
LandCoverNet & DeepGlobe
Key Technical Contributions
  • Engineered multi-scale semantic feature fusion coupled with boundary information to preserve fine-grained land cover details and minimize edge distortion.
  • Benchmarked against standard UNet baselines, demonstrating significant spatial delineation improvements across fragmented terrain classes.
Stack:PyTorchComputer VisionSegmentationBoundary FusionDeepGlobe
02Natural Language Processing · PEFT
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Qwen LLM Fine-Tuning

Parameter-efficient supervised fine-tuning of the Qwen2.5-1.5B Instruct language model utilizing Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and the Unsloth acceleration kernel.

Base Model
Qwen2.5-1.5B Instruct
Adapter Config
r = 16, α = 32, dropout = 0.05
Kernel Framework
Unsloth & PyTorch
Key Technical Contributions
  • Curated task-specific instruction prompt-response pairs to specialize reasoning behavior while eliminating memory bottlenecks during backpropagation.
  • Evaluated response coherence and loss trajectory across held-out test splits, verifying domain adaptation fidelity without catastrophic forgetting.
Stack:Qwen 2.5LoRAPEFTUnslothPyTorchInstruction Tuning
03Neural Architecture · Foundations
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Language Model from Scratch

Character-level autoregressive neural language model constructed entirely from scratch in PyTorch without high-level library abstractions.

Corpus Size
93 Million Characters
Architecture
Embedding + Bigram Neural
Sampling Strategy
Autoregressive Softmax
Key Technical Contributions
  • Implemented custom vocabulary tokenization, embedding parameterization, logit projection, and cross-entropy optimization pipelines.
  • Engineered text generation via autoregressive probabilistic character sampling with tunable temperature scaling.
Stack:PyTorchTokenizationNeural NetworksCross-EntropyAutoregressive