Max Ploner
Machine Learning Engineer
Summary
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RockstarMax Ploner is a Machine Learning Engineer and PhD candidate in the Machine Learning group at HU Berlin and member of the Science of Intelligence network, bringing seven years of hands-on experience in ML research and engineering. He contributes to prominent open-source NLP infrastructure such as flairNLP, where he enhanced model training flexibility by enabling multiple parameter groups with distinct learning rates and added a prototypical decoder module for advanced architectures. Max blends research rigor with production-minded engineering, frequently fixing low-level issues and improving state handling in model codebases. Based in Germany, he thrives at the intersection of academic research and practical tooling, making complex model mechanics more usable for practitioners. Colleagues know him for tackling subtle implementation bugs and for pushing repository-level improvements that unlock new experimental possibilities.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
web-framework10
nlp10
trainings10
python10
modeling10
natural-language-processing9
sequence-labeling9
word-embeddings8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
flairNLP/flair
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
A very simple framework for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 46 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Max made several modifications to the model training process within the FlairNLP framework. They adapted the model trainer to handle multiple parameter groups with distinct learning rates, improving flexibility. Furthermore, they fixed a list comprehension error and made changes to the state dict functions. They added a prototypical decoder module, indicating work in advanced model architectures and potential for custom models.
nlppytorchnamed-entity-recognitionartsemantic-role-labeling
powerplace-io/power-places-scraper
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Scraper to retrieve places from third party sources.
Contributions:48 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 9 months
third-partypythonscrapypartyscrape
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