Ronan Collobert
Research scientist in Apple Machine Learning Research; developer of Torch, wav2letter, and flashlight
- Research scientist, Machine Learning Research, Apple (Machine Learning Research)12
Ronan Collobert is a research scientist in Apple's Machine Learning Research group and was previously a research scientist at Facebook AI Research, the Idiap Research Institute, and NEC Laboratories of America. Collobert's homepage lists a line of machine learning software: Torch, whose Torch7 release is distributed under a BSD license; SENNA, a natural language processing tagger; wav2letter, a toolbox for end-to-end speech recognition; and flashlight, a C++ machine learning framework that wav2letter is now part of. Collobert is first author of the Wav2Letter paper and last author of the Flashlight paper.1234
Work
flashlight and wav2letter (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Collobert's homepage presents flashlight, a C++ machine learning framework, and wav2letter, an end-to-end speech recognition toolbox now part of flashlight. Collobert is first author of the Wav2Letter paper (2016) and last author of the Flashlight paper (2022); flashlight is published under the MIT license, and the wav2letter repository states that wav2letter++ is MIT-licensed.13456
Torch (external site: ronan.collobert.com)Open-source code
Collobert's homepage lists Torch, a machine learning library whose last version, Torch7, pairs the Lua scripting language with a C implementation and is distributed under a BSD license, along with the earlier Torch 3, 4, and 5.1
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Research scientist, Facebook AI Research (Meta)1
- Research scientist, NEC Laboratories of America1
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