Elie Bakouch

Elie Bakouch

Elie Bakouch

Researcher · Prime Intellect

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Researcher focused on training large language models; previously associated with Hugging Face and now working on open model training at Prime Intellect.

Session (1)

Day 312:05pm-12:25pmMain Stage
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Elie Bakouch is a hands-on ML researcher who was a lead author on Hugging Face's open small language model work (the SmolLM family) and now works on decentralized and distributed AI training at Prime Intellect. Attending his session offers practical insight into large-scale LLM pre-training methodology, open data pipelines, and globally distributed model training.

Recent talks (2)

Pre-training of Smol and Large LLMGOSIM AI Paris 2025 · May 2025Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDFOct 2025

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