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Dustin Tran
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Dustin Tran
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at @elorianai, a multimodal neolab. ex-google ex-xai
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    Dustin Tran
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    Jun 17
    personal news: i've joined Elorian as Chief Reasoning Architect. multimodal AGI is the most critical frontier as we move from the era of chatbots to coding agents to models that reason and act over the physical world. i'm really excited to design natively visual models across
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    Sep 19, 2025
    I departed Google DeepMind after 8 years. So many fond memories—from early foundational papers in Google Brain (w/ @NoamShazeer @ashVaswani @lukaszkaiser on Image Transformer, Tensor2Tensor, Mesh TensorFlow) to lead Gemini posttraining evals to catch up & launch in 100 days, then
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    Dustin Tran
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    Mar 24, 2023
    For those keeping track dustintran.com/blog/ai-advanc…
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    Dustin Tran
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    Mar 24, 2023
    2023 has already seen more advances in AI than any other year. This velocity will only increase
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    Dustin Tran
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    Jan 28, 2022
    My favorite oxymoron in machine learning: "empirically proven".
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    Dustin Tran
    @dustinvtran
    Mar 23, 2021
    I'm so appreciative that ML is at a state where open-source code, freely available conference videos/proceedings, and now even open reviews are becoming the norm. That's not a luxury all research fields have.
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    Nov 7, 2018
    "Simple, Distributed, and Accelerated Probabilistic Programming". The #NIPS2018 paper for Edward2. Scaling probabilistic programs to 512 TPUv2 cores and 100+ million parameter models. arxiv.org/abs/1811.02091 github.com/google-researc…
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    Dustin Tran
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    Aug 30, 2017
    Videos are now available for the 2017 Deep Learning (and RL) Summer Schools in Montreal
    Deep Learning (DLSS) and Reinforcement Learning (RLSS) Summer School, Montreal 2017
    From videolectures.net
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    Dustin Tran
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    Sep 19, 2025
    A cheekier version
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    Yuhuai (Tony) Wu
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    Sep 19, 2025
    Grok4 Fast maximizing intelligence density.
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    Dustin Tran
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    Dec 4, 2022
    Recap of the trendiest conversation topic at NeurIPS in the past 7 years 2015: Bayes / RL / OpenAI 2016: Deep RL & Autoregressive generative models 2017: "DL is alchemy" 2018: Glow & Neural ODEs 2019: Understanding DL 2020: GPT-3 2021: people had conversations..? 2022: ChatGPT
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    Dustin Tran
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    Feb 5, 2018
    Starting today, I am at Google full-time as a Research Scientist. See everyone in the Bay Area!
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    Dustin Tran
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    Sep 27, 2021
    Speaking of interesting facts from analyzing conferences: Google is 3-10x the size of any other AI research lab. That's not even including DeepMind which ranks 3rd.
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    May 28, 2021
    What gripes do you have with LaTeX's default, and what you always add to papers? Here are mine: 1. Cleveref. Don't use "Section \ref{sec:intro}". Use \Cref{sec:intro}. This makes writing less error prone and it makes "Section" part of the hyperlink!
    texblog.org
    Cleveref, a clever way to reference in LaTeX - texblog
    Using standard cross-referencing in LaTeX only produces the label number, a name describing the label such as figure, chapter or equation has to be added manually. The cleveref package overcomes this...
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    Dustin Tran
    @dustinvtran
    Apr 11, 2018
    Excited to introduce TensorFlow Probability. Official tools for probabilistic reasoning and statistical analysis in the TF ecosystem.
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    Apr 11, 2018
    Introducing TensorFlow Probability: empowering ML researchers and practitioners to build sophisticated models quickly, leveraging state-of-the-art hardware Read about it on the TensorFlow blog ↓ goo.gl/1CQtU2
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    Dustin Tran
    @dustinvtran
    Jun 16, 2022
    It’s surprising that in 2022, there remains little movement away from LaTeX toward a new language. It has some of the most unintuitive designs and syntax you’d expect in a language today.