Namra Patel

Hello! I'm a Master's student at Georgia Tech. These days I'm working on methods for robot learning from human video and developing my research interests in world models. Previously I worked on distributed systems such as Ethereum's ERC-4337, and on high-performance game servers at Argus. Before that, I studied computer science at Western University.

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Writing

July 14th, 2025"Convolutional" layer backpropagation, done right

June 24th, 2025An Analytical Approach to Batch Normalization Gradients

June 17th, 2025Policy Gradient Methods

June 10th, 2025Value Function Approximation

May 27th, 2025Model-free Control

May 22nd, 2025Model-free Prediction

May 18th, 2025Policy and Value Iteration

Research

Quantifying the Generalization Value of Pretraining Tasks in Robotic Manipulation
Undergraduate Thesis, Western University, 2025
A framework for quantifying the transfer value of a robotic manipulation task to other tasks in a taxonomy. Shows that both foundational tasks and complex tasks accelerate learning on others, but only tasks higher in the hierarchy can be used to improve performance on simpler tasks.

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