Christopher Ré
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder
- Professor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group), Stanford University12
- Founder, Together AI3
Christopher Ré is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, in the Stanford AI Lab, the Center for Research on Foundation Models and the Machine Learning Group; Ré's lab works on the foundations of the next generation of AI systems. Together AI lists Ré as a founder, and Ré's homepage notes co-founding a number of companies with students and collaborators. Ré is a co-author of the FlashAttention paper (2022), the Hyena paper on convolutional language models (2023), the HELM evaluation paper (2022) and the RedPajama open dataset paper (2024), and the lab's recent releases include ThunderKittens for building AI kernels. Ré's Stanford biography notes a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the NeurIPS 2020 test-of-time award.1234567
Work
RedPajamaOpen data
Co-author of "RedPajama: an Open Dataset for Training Large Language Models" (2024); Ré's homepage links to the RedPajama-Data repository, which is Apache-2.0.718
HELM (Holistic Evaluation of Language Models)Published research
Co-author of "Holistic Evaluation of Language Models" (2022).6
FlashAttention (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author, with Tri Dao, Daniel Y. Fu, Stefano Ermon and Atri Rudra, of "FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness" (2022).4
Hyena (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models" (2023); Ré's homepage lists Hyena and its application HyenaDNA among the lab's work.51
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