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Georgia Institute of Technology

University lab · Research lab · Atlanta, Georgia

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1885 and part of the University System of Georgia. Its AI research groups include the Polo Club of Data Science, which builds interactive tools for understanding machine learning models, among them Transformer Explainer.1246Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Public research university in the University System of Georgia, whose Board of Regents was created in 1931 to govern the state's public colleges and universities. Regents are appointed by the governor.123
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia1
Founded
18851
Sectors
Research

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This catalog assesses openness per artifact, not for the university as a whole. Transformer Explainer's source code is published under the MIT License.7Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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  • The University System of Georgia lists Georgia Tech as one of its four research universities, together with the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Augusta University.2
  • The Polo Club of Data Science at Georgia Tech lists human-centered AI (including interpretable, fair, and safe AI and adversarial machine learning), large graph visualization and mining, and cybersecurity among its research areas. It publishes its code in the poloclub GitHub organization.45
  • Transformer Explainer is an interactive, browser-based visualization that runs a GPT-2 model so learners can see how a Transformer predicts the next token. Its README says it was created at the Georgia Institute of Technology; the code is released under the MIT License with copyright held by the Polo Club of Data Science, and the accompanying paper appears in the proceedings of CHI 2026.678

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Georgia Tech describes itself as a public research university in Atlanta, and the University System of Georgia lists it among the institutions governed by its Board of Regents, a body created by the state of Georgia in 1931.123

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Sources

  1. 1.
    About Georgia Tech (external site: gatech.edu)

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    Institution Profiles | University System of Georgia (external site: usg.edu)

    University System of Georgia · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    Regents | University System of Georgia (external site: usg.edu)

    University System of Georgia · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    Polo Club of Data Science @ Georgia Tech (external site: poloclub.github.io)

    Polo Club of Data Science, Georgia Tech · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    Polo Club of Data Science, Georgia Tech (GitHub organization) (external site: github.com)

    Polo Club of Data Science, Georgia Tech · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    poloclub/transformer-explainer (GitHub repository and README) (external site: github.com)

    Polo Club of Data Science, Georgia Tech · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  7. 7.
    Transformer Explainer LICENSE (MIT License) (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    Polo Club of Data Science · License · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  8. 8.
    Transformer Explainer: Learning LLM Transformers with Interactive Visual Explanation and Experimentation (arXiv 2408.04619) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv (Polo Club of Data Science and co-authors) · Paper · published Aug 8, 2024 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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