Lysandre Debut
Chief Open-Source Officer at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers library paper and DistilBERT
- Chief Open-Source Officer, Hugging Face12
Lysandre Debut works at Hugging Face, where their GitHub and Hugging Face profiles give the title Chief Open-Source Officer. Debut is the second-listed author of the paper describing the open-source Transformers library, written with a Hugging Face affiliation, and of DistilBERT, a smaller distilled version of BERT. Debut is also a co-author of the paper describing the community Datasets library for natural language processing.12346
Work
TransformersOpen-source code
Second-listed author of "Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing" (2019), the paper describing the open-source library, written with a Hugging Face affiliation.3
DistilBERT (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
Second-listed author of the DistilBERT paper (2019), which pre-trains a smaller general-purpose language model through knowledge distillation; the distilbert-base-uncased model card lists the Apache 2.0 license.45
Datasets (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Datasets: A Community Library for Natural Language Processing" (2021).6
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