About
Clark Whitehead
Independent ML researcher based in San Francisco, CA.
Education & experience
My interests center on continual learning, reinforcement learning, and world models. Over time, I hope to grow this work into an independent AI research lab.
Education
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Bachelor of Science
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Computer Science and Machine Learning
Focus in Data Science
ML experience
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Independent ML research
Clark Whitehead Research
Exploratory continual-learning research.
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Machine Learning Engineer
TheCRM Corporation
Work focus
Fine-tuning Llama 405B on RV trim data.
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Machine Learning Engineer
Opt-Intelligence
Work focus
Adapting and fine-tuning Llama 70B to estimate opt-in probability for an advertising network.
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Machine Learning Engineer
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Work focus
Building LLMs to extract metadata from PDFs.
Work you can explore
Target drift in deep Q-learning
An interactive MountainCar teaching project on the moving-target problem in deep Q-learning and the role of a slowly updated target network.
It uses constructed data for teaching clarity. It is separate from the new research direction and is not experimental evidence for it.
Open the interactive explainer