Nathan is a machine learning researcher who works on building, understanding, and advocating for open language models and other responsible autonomous systems. He is currently a post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI.
Papers → Google Scholar, my CV, Semantic Scholar, see PhD Thesis.
Talks → YouTube channel or CV.
Newsletter → Interconnects.ai
Book → RLHF Book
Recent: Building American Truly Open Models (ATOM Project - atomproject.ai), finished the web version of my RLHF book, coming to print soon!
Upcoming: The Curve (Oct 3-5), COLM (Oct 6-10), PyTorch Conference (Oct 21-24), NeurIPS (Dec 10-15)
I host two podcasts (sporadically).
Otherwise, I sometimes appear on friends' podcasts:
Some useful links for graduate students and academics.
Some of my most popular posts before transitioning to Substack (Top Posts there).