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Hugging Face
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
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Colin Raffel
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Associate Professor at University of Toronto
Associate Research Director at Vector InstituteResearcher at Hugging Face
Raffel led the creation of T5, which reframed every NLP task as text-to-text, and the C4 dataset that trained it. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute and works with Hugging Face on open models.
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Associate ProfessorUniversity of Toronto
University of TorontoAssociate Research DirectorVector Institute
Vector InstituteResearcherHugging Face
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