User Empathy Day Model List

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	K
1	Assignee(s)	Model	Repo	Evidence of Excitement	Goal	Notes	Link to Tracking Doc
2	Tugsbayasgalan	Mamba	https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba?tab=readme-ov-file	https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1al5wrf/why_arent_we_freaking_out_more_about/	E2E Training, Working Inference	State-Space Model, potential replacement for transformers, also uses custom CUDA kernel for long sequences
3	Angela Yi	Unsloth	https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth	https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/188197j/80_faster_50_less_memory_0_accuracy_loss_llama/	E2E finetuning, compare memory	Used for low memory finetuning, lots of custom triton kernels.	Unsloth notes
4	Boyuan Feng	vit-pytorch	https://github.com/lucidrains/vit-pytorch	https://twitter.com/gazorp5/status/1759851488120279043	Synthetic benchmarking	lots of stars, lucidrains is extremely popular person in OSS community
5	Michael Lazos	imagen	https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch		Synthetic benchmarking	lots of stars, lucidrains is extremely popular person in OSS community
6	Edward Yang	AudioLM	https://github.com/lucidrains/audiolm-pytorch		Synthetic benchmarking	lots of stars, lucidrains is extremely popular person in OSS community	AudioLM notes
7	Shunting Zhang	StableCascade	https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade	https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1aprm4j/stable_cascade_is_out/	Working Inference	Fast version of stable diffusion
8	Sherlock Huang	SDXL-Lightning	https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning#2-step-4-step-8-step-unet	https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1760157720173224301	Working Inference	Fast version of stable diffusion	SDXL-Lightning Notes
9	Bin Bao	BriaRMBG	https://huggingface.co/briaai/RMBG-1.4		Working Inference	Background removal model
10	Zhengxu Chen	Whisper	https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3 https://github.com/openai/whisper	https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/634	Working Inference	Speech to Text. Theoretically works in our dashboard but use it to actually transcribe some speech	torch.compile Whisper
11	Richard Zou	Text Embeddings	https://huggingface.co/TaylorAI/bge-micro		Synthetic Benchmark	Random Embedding Model chosen
12	Yidi Wu	CleanRL	https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl/blob/master/cleanrl/dqn_atari.py		Benchmark against Jax impl	RL benchmark, we're way slower than Jax
13	William Wen	V-JEPA	https://github.com/facebookresearch/jepa		E2E Local Training	Yann Lecun's Favorite New Model	Located in User Empathy Day doc
14	Pian Pawakapan	LLava	https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA		Inference		LLAVA user empathy day
15	Yanbo Liang	Ring Attention	https://github.com/lucidrains/ring-attention-pytorch	https://discord.com/channels/1189498204333543425/1208496482005549086	Inference	Longboi context length
16	Simon Fan	Lumier	https://github.com/lucidrains/lumiere-pytorch	Sora announcement on twitter was hype	Inference	Text to video models	User Empathy Day Notes: lumiere-pytorch
17	Yifu Wang	VLLM	https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart.html		Inference	BS > 1 inference. Custom cuda extension	https://twitter.com/aaron_lou/status/1763242384958386306	The C++ Custom Operators Manual
18		Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion (SEDD)
19	Horace He	StableDiffusion v1.5	https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/using-diffusers/conditional_image_generation				Diffusion Generation
20		Neural Network Diffusion	https://github.com/NUS-HPC-AI-Lab/Neural-Network-Diffusion
21	Mark SAroufim
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