Open-source ML engineering & research

Ayush Chaurasia

Interested in technology, engineering, philosophy, and music.

Professionally, I've done a bunch of different things in the dev-tools space, serving ML/AI research engineers. I currently work on LanceDB. Before that I led the ML team at Ultralytics, where I co-authored YOLOv8 and the ultralytics Python package, and YOLOv5-seg โ€” the world's first instance-segmentation model to run in real time on CPU. Before that, I led open-source integrations and partnerships with ML tools at Weights & Biases, among other things.

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July 2026

A Little RoPE, a Lot of Prior Art

Three weeks of controlled RoPE-for-CLIP experiments, one adversarial literature review, and the ICLR 2025 paper that had already published my headline result.

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