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Dustin Tran

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Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

post-training lead at xAI. ex-google

San Francisco, CA

Joined June 2013

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Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Nov 24, 2025
We are hiring & rapidly grow post-training at xAI! The team is at the frontier of RLHF, agents, and reasoning efficiency—in just a few months, we climbed from nothing to #2-3 @arena, #1 Search Arena & other tool use benchmarks, #1-2 in creative writing, and are Pareto-optimal on
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Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Sep 19, 2025
I departed Google DeepMind after 8 years. So many fond memories—from early foundational papers in Google Brain (w/ @NoamShazeer @ashVaswani @lukaszkaiser on Image Transformer, Tensor2Tensor, Mesh TensorFlow) to lead Gemini posttraining evals to catch up & launch in 100 days, then
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Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Mar 24, 2023
For those keeping track dustintran.com/blog/ai-advanc…
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Mar 24, 2023
2023 has already seen more advances in AI than any other year. This velocity will only increase
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Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Jan 28, 2022
My favorite oxymoron in machine learning: "empirically proven".
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Mar 23, 2021
I'm so appreciative that ML is at a state where open-source code, freely available conference videos/proceedings, and now even open reviews are becoming the norm. That's not a luxury all research fields have.
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Nov 7, 2018
"Simple, Distributed, and Accelerated Probabilistic Programming". The #NIPS2018 paper for Edward2. Scaling probabilistic programs to 512 TPUv2 cores and 100+ million parameter models. arxiv.org/abs/1811.02091 github.com/google-researc…
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Aug 30, 2017
Videos are now available for the 2017 Deep Learning (and RL) Summer Schools in Montreal
Deep Learning (DLSS) and Reinforcement Learning (RLSS) Summer School, Montreal 2017
From videolectures.net
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Sep 19, 2025
A cheekier version
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu
@Yuhu_ai_
Sep 19, 2025
Grok4 Fast maximizing intelligence density.
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Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Dec 4, 2022
Recap of the trendiest conversation topic at NeurIPS in the past 7 years 2015: Bayes / RL / OpenAI 2016: Deep RL & Autoregressive generative models 2017: "DL is alchemy" 2018: Glow & Neural ODEs 2019: Understanding DL 2020: GPT-3 2021: people had conversations..? 2022: ChatGPT
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Feb 5, 2018
Starting today, I am at Google full-time as a Research Scientist. See everyone in the Bay Area!
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Sep 27, 2021
Speaking of interesting facts from analyzing conferences: Google is 3-10x the size of any other AI research lab. That's not even including DeepMind which ranks 3rd.
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
May 28, 2021
What gripes do you have with LaTeX's default, and what you always add to papers? Here are mine: 1. Cleveref. Don't use "Section \ref{sec:intro}". Use \Cref{sec:intro}. This makes writing less error prone and it makes "Section" part of the hyperlink!
Cleveref, a clever way to reference in LaTeX - texblog
From texblog.org
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Apr 11, 2018
Excited to introduce TensorFlow Probability. Official tools for probabilistic reasoning and statistical analysis in the TF ecosystem.
TensorFlow
@TensorFlow
Apr 11, 2018
Introducing TensorFlow Probability: empowering ML researchers and practitioners to build sophisticated models quickly, leveraging state-of-the-art hardware Read about it on the TensorFlow blog ↓ goo.gl/1CQtU2
Dustin Tran
@dustinvtran
Jun 16, 2022
It’s surprising that in 2022, there remains little movement away from LaTeX toward a new language. It has some of the most unintuitive designs and syntax you’d expect in a language today.