Hi there! I'm David (He/Him) 
I'm passionate about making quality tools that empower AI practitioners and generative artists.
I'm an independent ML research engineer affiliated with eleuther.ai. Previously, I helped launch Stability AI in the role of Distinguished Engineer, and worked in more conventional Data Scientist roles at Microsoft, Amazon, Fannie Mae, USDOL-OIG, Elder Research, and SoundExchange. A common theme in my work for the last few years has been building tools which making bleeding edge AI research accessible to non-technical creatives.
Creator/maintainer/curator of https://github.com/pytti-tools ->
Some projects I'm currently or recently involved with:
- Developing tools to facilitate parameterizing complex, multi-scene animation sequences
- Invented a technique for generating a multi-scene music video from audio
- inventing and building cutting edge, state of the art, AI animation tools and techniques
- working with electronic musicians and VJs to advance audio-reactive animation research
- maintaining and extending pytti-tools
- building a library to facilitate working with pre-trained CLIP-like models
- building a library to facilitate working with and management of messy research code
- working with researchers to build data collection tools that will be used to turn hackathon activities into training data for code generative language modeling
- Implementing notebooks to facilitate AI artist use of pre-trained research models, including FiLM and blended defusion
- model design for a forthcoming AI art model
- Shepherding the launch of the Stable Diffusion API and accompanying infra and tooling (public SDK, CI/CD, etc.) as engineering lead through the launch of the DreamStudio product
Broad Research Interests
- Text guided image synthesis
- AI-assisted animation
- Representation learning
- contrastive
- semi-supervised
- adversarial
- composable
- multi-modal
- Application of topolgical and geometric methods to machine learning
- Generative models
- Inductive priors
- Learning theory
Current Areas of Research Focus
- Modeling with implicit representations and operators
- Composable representations
- Latent-space manipulation
- Scale-agnostic learning
- Artistic applications of multi-modal generative models
Old Blog
# Greatest hits
https://github.com/dmarx/bench-warmers/
https://github.com/dmarx/sd-lazy-wildcards
https://github.com/dmarx/notebooks
https://github.com/dmarx/workbench
https://github.com/dmarx/anthology-of-modern-ml
https://github.com/dmarx/video-killed-the-radio-star
https://github.com/dmarx/keyframed
https://github.com/dmarx/fast-and-simple-dense-retrieval
https://github.com/dmarx/fasdr-action
https://github.com/dmarx/zero-shot-intent-classifier
https://github.com/dmarx/keyframed_chatgpt
https://github.com/dmarx/not-a-package-manager
https://github.com/dmarx/Multi-Modal-Comparators
https://github.com/dmarx/anthology-of-ml-for-ai-art
https://github.com/dmarx/pytti-core
https://github.com/dmarx/cka_pytorch
https://github.com/dmarx/checkin
https://github.com/dmarx/Topological-Anomaly-Detection
https://github.com/dmarx/Reddit_response_to_Trump
https://github.com/dmarx/make_for_datascience
https://github.com/dmarx/dispatchr
https://github.com/dmarx/twitterMonitor
https://github.com/dmarx/TextSummarization
https://github.com/dmarx/reddit-map
https://github.com/dmarx/dmarx.github.io
https://github.com/dmarx/Target-Shuffling
https://github.com/dmarx/statisticalArgumentForSettling
https://github.com/dmarx/SubredditMentionsGraph
https://github.com/dmarx/BoostTheVote
https://github.com/dmarx/Topological-Anomaly-Detection-r
https://github.com/dmarx/TravelingSalesmanMCMC
https://github.com/dmarx/GameOfLife
https://github.com/dmarx/Dreidel
https://github.com/dmarx/Random-Contingency-Table-Generator
https://github.com/dmarx/d3-mines
https://github.com/dmarx/mines
https://github.com/dmarx/VideoLinkBot
https://github.com/dmarx/awesome-llm-utilities
https://github.com/dmarx/auto-tagger
https://github.com/dmarx/the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl
https://github.com/dmarx/owl-keyframed
https://github.com/dmarx/psaw
https://github.com/dmarx/debugger
https://github.com/dmarx/nfpa
https://github.com/dmarx/enl-supply
https://github.com/dmarx/supply-chain
https://github.com/dmarx/data_generation_demo
https://github.com/dmarx/tpot
https://github.com/dmarx/DataKind-SmokeAlarms
https://github.com/dmarx/congressional-rollcalls