The Importance of Open-Source Contribution and Community in a Machine Learning Career

Hugging Face was founded in 2016 and has grown to become one of the most prominent ML platforms. It’s commonly used to develop and disseminate state-of-the-art ML models and is a central hub for researchers and developers.

Sayak Paul is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face and a Google Developer Expert. He joins the show today to talk about how he entered the ML field, diffusion model training, the transformer-based architecture, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .