José Cañete
José Cañete

Expert Machine Learning Engineer | MSc. in Computer Science

Universidad de Chile

    Hello there, I’m José! 😁

    I’m an Expert Machine Learning Engineer at Walmart, passionate about leveraging AI for real-world impact. I hold an MSc. in Computer Science, graduated from Universidad de Chile, and specialize in Language Models.

    I pioneered BETO, the first BERT-like model for Spanish, and introduced ALBETO, a suite of light and fast models based in ALBERT for Spanish.

    Formerly a founding member of the ReLeLa research group at DCC UChile, I’ve passionately explored Artificial Intelligence and optimizing systems for real-world applications.

    Outside of work, music and podcasts are my go-to sources for relaxation and learning.

    Feel free to reach out – you’ll find my contact details in the adjacent bio.

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    Interests
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Model Compression and Acceleration
    Education

    • MSc. in Computer Science, 2023

      Universidad de Chile

    • BSc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2021

      Universidad de Chile

    📚 My Research

    Use this area to speak to your mission. I’m a research scientist in the Moonshot team at DeepMind. I blog about machine learning, deep learning, and moonshots.

    I apply a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to comprehensively investigate the role of science and technology in the economy.

    Please reach out to collaborate 😃

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    José Cañete, Felipe Bravo-Marquez (2024). Speedy Gonzales: A Collection of Fast Task-Specific Models for Spanish. *Proceedings of the 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (SEM 2024), Mexico City, Mexico.
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    José Cañete (2023). Light and Fast Language Models for Spanish Through Compression Techniques. Master’s Thesis - Universidad de Chile.
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    José Cañete, Sebastián Donoso, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Andrés Carvallo, Vladimir Araujo (2022). ALBETO and DistilBETO: Lightweight Spanish Language Models. Proceedings of the 13th Edition of The Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France.
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    Vladimir Araujo, Andrés Carvallo, Souvik Kundu, José Cañete, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert E. Mercer, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Marie-Francine Moens, Alvaro Soto (2022). Evaluation Benchmarks for Spanish Sentence Representations. Proceedings of the 13th Edition of The Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France.
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    Pablo Messina, José Cañete, Denis Parra, Álvaro Soto, Cecilia Besa, Jocelyn Dunstan (2022). Two-stage Conditional Chest X-ray Radiology Report Generation. Medical Imaging meets NeurIPS, co-located with NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, USA.
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