I like ML and CUDA. Above all, I like being useful.
I currently work at Coupang Play, training recommendation models and building artwork generators.
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Projects
- minimal-flash-attention is Flash Attention in ~100 lines of CUDA (no cutlass!)
- cuda-1brc is my CUDA solution to the One Billion Row Challenge. Related to this is my blog post.
Posts
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Mixed Precision Training from Scratch
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How to set up Nsight Compute Locally to profile Remote GPUs
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The One Billion Row Challenge in CUDA: from 17m to 17s
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Growing up in six different countries
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A Quick Summary of "A Thorough Examination of the CNN/Daily Mail Reading Comprehension Task"
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The Introspectiveness of Neural Networks
Patents
- Taeksang Kim. Personalized video DJ with text-to-video, Korean Pat. No. 10-0123761, 2023.
- Taeksang Kim. Video keyword tagging with large language models, Korean Pat. No. 10-0098584, 2023.
- Jina Hwang and Taeksang Kim. Sports awareness, mobile feed video player, Korean Pat. No. 10-0071581, 2023.
- Taeksang Kim. Next watch prediction using GPT, Korean Pat. No. 10-0036443, 2023.
- Taeksang Kim. First hero optimization through reinforcement learning, Korean Pat. No. 10-0184572, 2022.
Miscellaneous
- I designed, and was interviewed for, the first introductory ML course for employees at Buzzvil.
- I wrote a tech blog on how to optimize Item-to-item collaborative filtering with sparse vectors and Ray.
- I gave an internal presentation on building a neural net that could steer autonomously in CARLA.