Louis Béthune

Hi, I’m Louis. I’m a research engineer at Apple Machine Learning Research in Paris, where I train large generative models and build the codebase that runs them.

I have always loved working at the intersection of engineering, mathematical modeling, physics, and neuroscience. Deep-learning research is a nice place where science and multi-disciplinary engineering collide.

Nowadays, my attention goes to three things.

• Generative models. I work on multimodal generation across text, images, and audio, especially with masked discrete models.
• ML systems. I like large-model training, distributed computation, and I’ve kept a love of low-level programming from my early days.
• Biologically inspired methods. I am curious about predictive coding, back-propagation-free training, massively distributed asynchronous systems, and the expressiveness of dynamical systems.