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Colin Raffel
UofT; Hugging Face; T5 author
Associate professor at the University of Toronto and Vector Institute; previously a faculty researcher at Hugging Face. Lead author of T5 (2019), one of the foundational text-to-text pretraining frameworks.
current Associate Professor, University of Toronto; Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Faculty Researcher, Hugging Face
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Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues open-source ML research, datasets, weights, training code, is the principle that lets science around foundation models actually accumulate; closed releases break that mechanism.
“We propose a unified framework that converts every text-based language problem into a text-to-text format. The simple objective lets us study transfer learning systematically.”
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