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Adam Paszke

PyTorch and JAX

Writing the autograd everyone uses

Rating

86Impact score
Research84
Systems built96
Openness96
Influence86
FromPoland
Era2016–present

Domains

Automatic differentiationCompilersML frameworks

Scouting report

Wrote the original PyTorch autograd engine as a student and is first author on the PyTorch paper, then moved to Google and became a core author of JAX. Two of the three frameworks serious research runs on have his design decisions inside them, which is an unusual thing to be able to say.

Curator’s note

The differentiation engine under two ecosystems at once.

Portrait

Painted from a photograph of Adam Paszke by Adam Paszke, supplied by the subject.