Robin M. Schmidt

Machine Translation & LLM i18n @Apple  | Previously: @IBM, @UNI_TUE, @MPI_IS | Catch me doing street photography or coding in your local coffee shop ☕️

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

If you were impacted by the Meta layoffs yesterday and wan't to work on Multilingual LLMs / Machine Translation @Apple, feel free to send me a DM or apply:

https://t.co/0Z94eyHMjd

[Yuandong Tian @tydsh]

Several of my team members + myself are impacted by this layoff today. Welcome to connect :)

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@KlausCodes depends

[rohan anil @_arohan_]

We did Shampoo so we kill all the variants of Adam. Now we call Shampoo b2=0.0 as Muon, then created 10s of variants thats marginally better.

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@kellerjordan0 I think with v1.0 they also added a language modeling task to their suite on fine web EDU
CC: @frankstefansch1 @zacharynado @_arohan_

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@kellerjordan0 Highly relevant: https://t.co/bB1qijIp5v

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@yifan_zhang_ I’d be very surprised if pro isn’t also distilled

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

Heading to #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou, reach out if you want to grab a drink!

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@cuijiaxun Send me a DM if you’d consider @Apple!

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@xianjun_agi @johnschulman2 Shoot me a dm if you’re interested in @Apple

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

New on-device improvements!

[Ruoming Pang @ruomingpang]

At WWDC we introduce a new generation of LLMs developed to enhance the Apple Intelligence features. We also introduce the new Foundation Models framework, which gives app developers direct access to the on-device foundation language model.

https://t.co/SnjCXrIyYj

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@zacharynado my fav personal vendetta to follow

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@jeffbigham Hopefully! But in reality they are likely just gonna resubmit elsewhere

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

It’s extremely upsetting when I write an extensive review for a paper submission and the authors just withdraw the paper without any rebuttal whatsoever

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@michellechen come on let them live a little

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

Check out #WWDC24 for more info what we do in ML @ Apple!

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

Exciting times to join Apple for AI/ML!

https://t.co/rH6jqSmoB7

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

you get priority boarding because you fly business, I get it because of extra security screening, we’re not the same

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@jxmnop Machine Translation still uses encoder-decoder, it’s hard to beat in compute constrained settings especially if you can shift a lot of parameters to the encoder.

[Robin M. Schmidt @robinschmidt_]

@zacharynado @aaron_defazio This!! Can’t stress enough how important that is (and you’ll likely get comments about that in the reviews anyways 😉)