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Alon Albalak

RWKV and efficient sequence modeling

Research scientist on the Open-Endedness team at Lila Sciences

A strong open-model and data-centric page because his work sits close to the infrastructure that made OLMo and Dolma useful to the broader research community rather than just another benchmark-driven model release.

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Lila Sciences

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Open language models and open pretraining corpora

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Data-centric AI and data selection for language models

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Research infrastructure for transparent model development

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RWKV and efficient sequence modeling

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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era

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RWKV (project)

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A useful long-tail page because he is present on both the original RWKV paper and Eagle/Finch, then shows up again on multilingual embedding evaluation work, which makes him more than a one-paper launch contributor.

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Worth keeping because it connects an early RWKV byline to a much more visible later research program in agentic AI, biomedical discovery, and code-focused evaluation, which makes the page far more useful than a one-paper ghost profile.

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Eric Alcaide

RWKV and efficient sequence modeling

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A distinctive page because his work bridges open-sequence-model experimentation with applied machine learning for molecules, proteins, and structural biology, and he shows up on multiple RWKV-family papers including the hybrid GoldFinch branch rather than only the first release.

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Huanqi Cao

RWKV and efficient sequence modeling

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Useful because it turns an otherwise thin RWKV byline into a real systems profile: after the original paper, his public work tracks toward large-scale pretraining infrastructure, pipeline parallelism, and systems support for frontier-scale models.