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Aaron Gokaslan
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Aaron Gokaslan
@SkyLi0n
Creator of OpenWebText. @PyTorch/@pybind11 maintainer @Mozilla Rise25. Prev. @MBZUAI IFM Pretraining Infra Lead @Cornell (PhD) @FacebookAI and @BrownUniversity
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Aug 22, 2019
    OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too! 1.5B Model Weights Released. Blogpost: medium.com/@vanya_cohen/o… Colab: colab.research.google.com/drive/1esbpDOo…
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    OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Jul 9, 2025
    Just opened a PR yesterday that will reduce the binary size PyTorch by 40% by adding 1 flag to NVCC With ~50M monthly of downloads of Pytorch, this one change will reduce global internet traffic by ~20PB. High impact changes like this is why I love OSS.
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    [BE]: Reduce binary size 40% using aggressive fatbin compression. by Skylion007 · Pull Request...
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Jun 29, 2024
    Replying to @Miles_Brundage
    This is apparently in their style guide. It's a very anachronistic way of spelling it, but it was valid once upon a time.
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    May 27, 2025
    Replying to @unusual_whales
    This isn't just Canad's oldest retailer, this is the oldest company in North America, and one of the oldest in the world.
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Jan 2, 2020
    Replying to @_akhaliq and @ak92501
    Why stop at faces? ;)
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Dec 12, 2024
    Can GANs outperform diffusion models in 2024? Yes! #2200: The GAN is dead; long live the GAN! A Modern GAN Baseline! Come join me if you're attending NeurIPS 2024. Thursday evening poster session 4:30-7:30 . #NeurIPSConference with @zonkedNGray @volokuleshov @jtompkin
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Mar 10, 2025
    Replying to @jxmnop
    You vs your advisor lol:
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Mar 8, 2020
    "First Order Motion Model for Image Animation" by Siarohin et al. transfers surprisingly well to animated characters.
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Apr 5, 2022
    Want to try the new Latent Diffusion, but don't want to pay for Google Colab Pro? @multimodalart @RiversHaveWings and I have optimized the inference of the model so it can run in the free version of Google Colab:
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    Optimized LDM-TXT2IM.ipynb
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Jul 19, 2020
    Replying to @karpathy
    Reminds me of how Trinity tests polluted all future steel for scientific experiments:
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    Low-background steel - Wikipedia
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Apr 27, 2024
    Replying to @soumithchintala
    pybind11 powers @llvmorg, @matplotlib, @SciPy_team, @PyTorch, @TensorFlow, and many other projects. We average 5 million+ git clones a month, and that is not including pypi.org downloads or binaries that ship the code.
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Jul 9, 2025
    Replying to @SkyLi0n
    Also forgot to mention it will allow us to squeeze in more supported architecture and better op code by keeping the @pytorch wheel under the @pypi size limit.
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Nov 21, 2024
    I am on the job market for industry and academic roles. My research focuses identifying, designing, and building efficient, scalable, sustainable, and affordable abstractions and infrastructure for generative modeling research. I also minor law, and do AI policy work.
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    Aaron Gokaslan
    @SkyLi0n
    Dec 16, 2024
    Replying to @Shalev_lif and @deliprao
    But it does use diffusion lol
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