Ryan Sepassi

Portland, OR

Currently exploring...

Current projects

• xos, cross-platform hermetic builds.
• simplelinux, build a simple Linux image.
• zigcoro, stackful coroutines in Zig.

Notes

• Recent interests - September 2024

Past projects

• Pathways (language model arXiv, language model blog post, system arXiv, system blog post), a new distributed system for large-scale machine learning. Technical lead along with Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.
• tensorflow/datasets (GitHub), standardized and reusable datasets for machine learning, original basis of huggingface/datasets. Creator and technical lead.
• tensorflow/tensor2tensor (GitHub), original canonical implementation of the Transformer. Maintainer and contributor, including the original implementation of the Transformer on TPUs.
• Other machine learning research papers I contributed to.
• TensorFlow custom gradient (@custom_gradient) and rematerialization utilities (@recompute_grad).