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+  <h1>Kiri Research Labs</h1>
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+    <strong>Smart. Small. Scaleable.</strong><br>
+    The Efficiency Frontier of Artificial Intelligence.
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+### 📡 **The Mission: Intelligence Scaleable to Zero**
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+**Kiri Research Labs** is an applied AI research entity focused on **TinyML** and **Hierarchical Architectures**. We build the infrastructure for "Intelligence on the Edge"—ensuring that advanced reasoning capabilities are accessible without industrial-scale compute.
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+Our work bridges the gap between massive foundation models and the practical reality of deployment in low-latency, resource-constrained environments.
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+### 🧪 **Research Vectors**
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+| **Focus Area** | **Description** |
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+| **🧩 TinyML & SLMs** | Engineering high-fidelity Small Language Models (0.5B - 3B) via quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation. We prove that *size is not the only metric for intelligence*. |
+| **🏗️ Hierarchical Architectures** | Developing "Manager-Worker" cognitive topologies. Instead of one massive model, we utilize specialized routing networks to decompose complex tasks into efficient sub-routines. |
+| **🗣️ Naija Voice & Linguistics** | Building the acoustic bedrock for African AI. We create adaptive tokenizers and datasets for tonal languages (Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin) to ensure cultural nuance is native, not an afterthought. |
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+### 🛠️ **Technical Infrastructure**
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+  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-EE4C2C?style=flat-square&logo=pytorch&logoColor=white" />
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+> *"We do not just train models; we engineer cognitive structures."*
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+  <sub>© 2026 Kiri Research Labs • Enugu, Nigeria</sub>
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