Floris Weers

Researcher, Apple

Joined

September 2022

Names

Floris Weers (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@weers.dev

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Apple (apple.com)

2022 – Present

Intern

Apple (apple.com)

2021 – 2022

MS student

University of Twente (utwente.nl)

2020 – 2022

Undergrad student

University of Twente (utwente.nl)

2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Tom Gunter

2021 – 2022

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Distillation Scaling Laws
Dan Busbridge, Amitis Shidani, Floris Weers, Jason Ramapuram, Etai Littwin, Russell Webb
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention
Jason Ramapuram, Federico Danieli, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Floris Weers, Dan Busbridge, Pierre Ablin, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Jagrit Digani, Zijin Gu, Amitis Shidani, Russell Webb
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?
Arduin Findeis, Floris Weers, Guoli Yin, Ke Ye, Ruoming Pang, Tom Gunter
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models
Tom Gunter, Zirui Wang, Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang, Andy Narayanan, Aonan Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Chen Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, David Qiu, Deepak Gopinath, Dian Ang Yap, Dong Yin, Feng Nan, Floris Weers, Guoli Yin, Haoshuo Huang, Jianyu Wang, Jiarui Lu, John Peebles et al. (80 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
Brandon McKinzie, Zhe Gan, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Sam Dodge, Bowen Zhang, Philipp Dufter, Dhruti Shah, Xianzhi Du, Futang Peng, Floris Weers, Anton Belyi, Haotian Zhang, Karanjeet Singh, Doug Kang, Ankur Jain, Hongyu Hè, Max Schwarzer, Tom Gunter, Xiang Kong, Aonan Zhang et al. (12 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs
Keen You, Haotian Zhang, Eldon Schoop, Floris Weers, Amanda Swearngin, Jeffrey Nichols, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Mobile V-MoEs: Scaling Down Vision Transformers via Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
Erik A. Daxberger, Floris Weers, Bowen Zhang, Tom Gunter, Ruoming Pang, Marcin Eichner, Michael Emmersberger, Yinfei Yang, Alexander Toshev, Xianzhi Du
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Masked Autoencoding Does Not Help Natural Language Supervision at Scale
Floris Weers, Vaishaal Shankar, Angelos Katharopoulos, Yinfei Yang, Tom Gunter
- CVPR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Controllable Music Production with Diffusion Models and Guidance Gradients
Mark Levy, Bruno Di Giorgi, Floris Weers, Angelos Katharopoulos, Tom Nickson
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Self Supervision Does Not Help Natural Language Supervision at Scale
Floris Weers, Vaishaal Shankar, Angelos Katharopoulos, Yinfei Yang, Tom Gunter
- 2023 (modified: 31 Mar 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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