Stef Nelson-Lindall
Tech Lead, PyText, Facebook

Stef Nelson-Lindall is a tech lead for PyText, an open source Facebook project for experimentation, training, and productionization of NLP models using PyTorch. He worked to use this project to deploy Transformer architecture models to real-time production systems at Facebook. Previously, he built NLP and dialog systems for products across Facebook, built CRM systems at Google, and helped build web-based medical image viewers at Vital Images. He holds bachelors degrees in math and computer science from the University of Minnesota.

Sessions

1:45pm–2:25pm Thursday, September 12, 2019

Location: Expo Hall 3

PyTorch at scale for translation and NLP

Models and Methods

Secondary topics: Text, Language, and Speech

Stef Nelson-Lindall (Facebook)

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PyText is a research to production platform that Facebook has leveraged to quickly develop state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) systems and deploy them to critical production use cases. Stef Nelson-Lindall explores several challenges with developing, training, and deploying real production systems with Torch, how to deal with them in NLP use cases, and more. Read more.