Victor Sanh
First author of DistilBERT and T0; co-author of the Transformers library paper and the Idefics2 model
- Listed as the current company on Sanh's GitHub profile (no title stated), Rilix1
Victor Sanh's GitHub profile describes Sanh as an AI builder previously at Hugging Face and lists Rilix as the current company. At Hugging Face, Sanh was first author of DistilBERT, a smaller distilled version of BERT, and a co-author of the paper describing the open-source Transformers library. Sanh was also first author of the paper on multitask prompted training that introduced the T0 models, a senior contributor to the OBELICS dataset and IDEFICS models, and a co-author of the 2024 paper that released the Idefics2 vision-language model.124579
Work
TransformersOpen-source code
Third-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.4
DistilBERT (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
First author of the DistilBERT paper (2019), which pre-trains a smaller general-purpose model through knowledge distillation and tests it on device; the distilbert-base-uncased model card lists the Apache 2.0 license.23
T0 (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
First author of "Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization" (2021), which fine-tunes an encoder-decoder model on a prompted multitask mixture and releases the trained models; the T0pp model card lists the Apache 2.0 license.56
OBELICS, IDEFICS and Idefics2 (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
Marked as an equal and senior contributor on the OBELICS paper (2023), which releases an open interleaved image-text dataset and the IDEFICS models, and last-listed author of the 2024 study that develops and releases the Idefics2 8B vision-language model, whose model card lists the Apache 2.0 license.78910
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Listed with a Hugging Face affiliation on the DistilBERT (2019) and Idefics2 (2024) papers, Hugging Face1249
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