DLBA Pruning CXR project page design

Goal

Add the DLBA Pruning CXR research project to the website’s home and Work pages and provide a matching project detail page. The page must explain the study clearly and use selected visuals from its final report.

Content and structure

The home and Work pages will list “Pruning CXR Models” after the existing Floki and SetScout projects. The home-page section heading will be “Projects.” Its summary will state that the project studies how neural network pruning affects chest X-ray performance, compute cost, and demographic fairness.

The detail page will follow the existing Floki and SetScout structure. It will contain:

1. A short technology and research-area label.
2. The research question and motivation.
3. The method: unstructured L1 pruning of a pretrained TorchXRayVision DenseNet-121 model on a filtered NIH ChestX-ray8 test set.
4. The main result: performance remains stable through 80% sparsity and declines sharply above 85% to 90%.
5. The fairness result: pruning does not materially worsen or correct existing sex and age performance gaps before model collapse.
6. A clear exploratory-project status note.
7. Links to the GitHub repository, final report, and Work page.

Visuals

Extract three figures from the final report and store optimized local image files in the website:

• Overall AUROC change across pruning levels.
• Age-group fairness results across pruning levels.
• Weight distributions at 0%, 80%, and 90% pruning.

The AUROC figure will also serve as the Work page thumbnail. Each image will include useful alternative text and a short caption that explains the result. Images will fit the existing content width and remain readable on small screens.

Visual design

Reuse the site’s current Quiet Technical design system: Young Serif headings, Hanken Grotesk body text, DM Mono metadata, blue-gray colors, thin borders, and restrained spacing. The paper figures provide the page’s visual identity, so no new decorative system, animation, or dependency is needed.

Implementation

• Add one Markdown file to _portfolio.
• Add one project row to _pages/about.md and rename its project section to “Projects.”
• Add one project row to _pages/work.md.
• Add the extracted figure files under assets/images.
• Add only the small amount of CSS needed for figure captions or layout, if the existing project-image styles are insufficient.

Validation

• Build the Jekyll site locally.
• Confirm the Work page links to the new detail page.
• Check the detail page at desktop and mobile widths.
• Verify image loading, captions, alternative text, external links, keyboard focus, and dark-theme readability.
• Start the local Jekyll server and leave it running for review.

Scope limits

Do not refactor existing project pages, add dependencies, alter unrelated content, create a commit, or push changes.