Vaishaal Shankar
Machine learning researcher; shared last author of DataComp-LM at Apple and a co-lead of OpenCLIP
Vaishaal Shankar is a machine learning researcher whose cited work includes dataset research and open-source CLIP training. At Apple, Shankar was one of the shared last authors of DataComp-LM (2024), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with a standardized corpus, pretraining recipes, and a broad evaluation suite, and contributed to the data, evaluation, and responsible AI work on Apple's 2024 foundation language models report; the 2025 MobileCLIP2 paper notes that Shankar's contribution was done while at Apple. Shankar is an original author of OpenCLIP, an MIT-licensed open-source implementation of CLIP, and is named in its README among the people who lead current development of the repository.12345
Work
OpenCLIP (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Named in the README among the people who lead current development of the repository and among the original authors; the repository is released under the MIT license.45
DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
One of the shared last authors, listed with Apple, of the 2024 DataComp-LM paper, which provides a standardized corpus extracted from Common Crawl, pretraining recipes, and 53 downstream evaluations for dataset experiments.1
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