Sham Satish Thakare

Sham Satish Thakare โ€” Blog

(He/Him/His)

Independent Computer Science Researcher

Focus: Foundation Model Reasoning & Reliable Distributed Systems


APCOER Pune (SPPU) ยท First Class with Distinction

Blog Posts & Research Notes:

Diagnostic essays, research notes, and systems write-ups exploring fundamental questions in AI reasoning and distributed systems:

[When Confidence Proxies Confound Reasoning Complexity: Pitfalls of Uncertainty-Weighted Credit Assignment in Language Model RL]

A detailed diagnostic essay demonstrating that token-predictive entropy correlates positively with reasoning derivation length ($r = +0.486$), and that heuristic confidence weighting causes reward misallocation across mathematical reasoning rollouts.