Shivanshi Tripathi

Meridian 0.1: Why Data Design Beats Method Innovation: A Case Study of a LaTeX-Aware Academic Proofreading SLM

This paper presents Meridian 0.1, a data-first approach to academic proofreading using a LaTeX-aware small language model (SLM). The study investigates how training-data design, task decomposition, and document-structure awareness influence academic proofreading performance. Meri...