This is the brief personal website of Max Marion. I’m a Machine Learning Researcher, most recently at MosaicML / Databricks. Before that I was a Research Scholar at cohere labs, and earlier an MLE at KUNGFU.AI. I published a paper on data pruning (the longer pre-print here) for LLM pretraining. My work has covered LLM evaluations and faithfulness, computer vision, audio, and more.
My motion based hobbies include backpacking where I can forget about the anthropocene, surfing, lifting, and playing ultimate frisbee. My more stationary hobbies include puzzle games and rougelikes, reading, and piano. In Austin I played frisbee on Riverside and loved hanging out in my backyard with my cat, Callie. I grew up in Austin, went to school in Los Angeles, moved back home, and now as of October 2023 live in San Francisco.
my poor attempts at professionalism are here
my worst takes are here
research only is here
my code is here
my str8 up email (remove the hightech captcha): m m a r i o n 5 3 8 @ < r o b o t s g o a w a y > @ g m a i l
I was recently briefly featured in this Scientific American article on LLMs and their possibilities for religious applications and this Wall Street Journal article on Noah Lyles and the “rise of nerds.”
Here’s a list of the cooler projects I’ve worked on, during which my role always fell under “make the neural network work”: