Anish Thite is a founder and machine learning engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building research-driven ML systems and startups. He combines deep academic work—MS from Georgia Tech and published GECCO papers on AutoML and GANs—with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like EleutherAI’s GPT-Neo and the lm-evaluation-harness, extending transformer architectures and integrating evaluation datasets. His background spans practical cloud engineering at AWS (latency reduction for Lambda), edge ML and robotics work, and multiple early-stage ventures, reflecting a rare mix of production engineering and research. Known for evolving model architectures and enabling multi-GPU training pipelines, he focuses on NLP and reinforcement learning applications that bridge novel research with deployable products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
High School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Notre Dame High School, West Haven, CT
A framework for few-shot evaluation of language models.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anish primarily contributed to implementing and integrating datasets for language model evaluation. They added CoQA extraction functionalities by creating a dataset-specific processing script. Furthermore, the user integrated DROP, Wikitext2, Wikitext103, TriviaQA, StoryCloze, PiQA, and RTE datasets, demonstrating a focus on expanding the evaluation capabilities of the framework.
An implementation of model parallel GPT-2 and GPT-3-style models using the mesh-tensorflow library.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:6 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Anish primarily contributed to the model's architecture and functionalities. Their work included adding layer-specific attention parameters and expanding existing parameter configurations, indicating an effort to fine-tune or extend the model's capabilities. Furthermore, the user merged branch changes and fixed merge issues, implying involvement in codebase integration and maintenance. The changes were centered on the GPT-Neo model, suggesting skills in transformer-based language models.
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