Hugo Vergnes

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Machine learning engineer and researcher. I train and evaluate deep-learning systems, from language models pretrained from scratch to video understanding.

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Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

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A 3.8B model pretrained from scratch to 0.384 CORE on 65B tokens in 43 hours, for $998.