Benjamin Meyer

ZHAW (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) at the Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)

PhD candidate at the University of Zurich in computer vision, with a focus on applied deep learning in document recognition and echocardiography.

Scala enthusiast working on Scala-based open-source machine learning projects such as DimWit, DeepWit, and ScalaGrad.

Sessions

DimWit – Tensor programming with wit

Lightning Talk

13. October 2026, 12:25 - 12:30

Kesselhaus

We present DimWit, a system for writing readable numerical and machine learning code. DimWit's core feature is a trait-based implementation of the named tensor notation, which improves readability and type-safety compared to standard tensors. We illustrate how to write machine learning models using DimWit, and discuss our experience training GPT-2.