Romain Beaumont

Romain Beaumont, also known as rom1504, is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with extensive experience in building and deploying ML infrastructure at scale.13 He worked as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Criteo from April 2020 to October 2021.5 Currently, he is employed at Google.3

Beaumont's main interests and contributions include:

1. Multimodal deep learning and large-scale ML systems
2. Open-source projects such as Laion5B and OpenClip
3. Development of KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors) algorithms
4. Work on LLMs (Large Language Models) at YouTube

He has made significant contributions to the field of machine learning, particularly in the areas of image-text models and semantic search. Some of his notable works include:

• Co-authoring papers on large-scale datasets like LAION-5B and LAION-400M2
• Contributing to reproducible scaling laws for contrastive language-image learning2
• Developing the autofaiss library for automatic KNN indexing4

Beaumont is active on various platforms, including GitHub, LinkedIn, and Twitter, where he shares his work and insights on machine learning and related topics.136