Tianqi Chen
The Serial Framework Author
XGBoost, MXNet, TVM and MLC
Rating
89Impact score
Domains
Gradient boostingML compilersOn-device inference
Scouting report
Wrote XGBoost, which won a remarkable share of Kaggle competitions and is still the default for tabular data. Then co-created MXNet, then Apache TVM for compiling models to any hardware, then MLC-LLM for running models on phones and browsers. Every one of them open, and each solved a bottleneck the field was about to hit.
Curator’s note
Four separate pieces of infrastructure, all still in use, all given away.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Tianqi Chen by Tianqi Chen, supplied by the subject.
Sources
- 01XGBoost github.com
- 02Apache TVM tvm.apache.org