Worth tracking because he is one of the contributors who stays with the RWKV line from the original paper through Eagle/Finch, GoldFinch, and into RWKV-7, which is exactly the kind of repeated authorship signal that makes these long-tail pages valuable.
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Editor reviewedEric Alcaide
RWKV and efficient sequence modeling
PhD student at IDSIA USI-SUPSI working on machine learning for drug discovery
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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March 18, 2026
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Machine learning for molecules, proteins, and graph learning
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Open sequence-model work across multiple RWKV-family papers including GoldFinch
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AI applications in structural biology and drug discovery
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RWKV and efficient sequence modeling
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RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
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Co-authored RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era.