Łukasz Kaiser
The One Who Open-Sourced It
The Transformer, Tensor2Tensor and Trax
Rating
88Impact score
Domains
TransformersML frameworksReasoning models
Scouting report
Transformer co-author who also built and released Tensor2Tensor, the open library that put a working transformer implementation in everyone’s hands within weeks of the paper, and later Trax. Moved to OpenAI to work on the reasoning-model line. The gap between publishing an architecture and everyone being able to run it was largely his to close.
Curator’s note
The paper made it famous; the repo made it everyone’s.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Łukasz Kaiser by Lukasz Kaiser, supplied by the subject.
Sources
- 01Attention Is All You Need (2017) arxiv.org
- 02Tensor2Tensor github.com