AI & ML

Invoice-Check JP: A 3B Model Reads the Invoice, Checks Decide Whether to Trust It

A QLoRA-tuned vision-language model extracts Japanese qualified invoices; a check digit, a registry lookup and tax arithmetic decide what gets autom…

I Distilled a 568M Multilingual Model Into a 37M Japanese-English Encoder — Here's What Survived

Cross-lingual retrieval distillation, compression, and the honest cost table. Scope note: English-to-Japanese retrieval only. EN-JA eval is syntheti…

Jev vs Local Models: Where Japanese Intent Routing Stands After 1,000 Utterances

📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . The router that decides "which process to assign this phrase to" is crucial for the u…

Adding Furigana to Word Documents is a Nightmare

Adding furigana to a Word document sounded like a small extension to EZFurigana. Furigana are the small pronunciation guides that appear above Japan…

Auto-Furigana in the Browser — Lazy-Loading kuromoji.js's 4 MB Dictionary from a CDN to Annotate Japanese Kanji With Their Readings

Furigana are the small hiragana annotations that sit above kanji to show how they should be read. Schoolbooks, kid manga, and language-learning mate…