Soumith Chintala
The Face of PyTorch
The framework the research world actually switched to
Rating
91Impact score
Domains
ML frameworksOpen sourceCommunity
Scouting report
Co-created and led PyTorch, which won the research community by being straightforwardly pleasant to debug when the alternative was not. Ran it as a genuinely open project with an unusually visible maintainer, shepherded it into the Linux Foundation, and co-authored DCGAN along the way. Almost every model in this set was trained in his framework.
Curator’s note
Won by making the thing nice to use, which nobody else tried.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Soumith Chintala by Soumith Chintala, supplied by the subject.
Sources
- 01PyTorch github.com
- 02PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library (2019) arxiv.org