Kabir Swain — Founder & CEO, LightScale

About Me

My research experience has focused on computer vision, large language models, efficient scaling, and architectures.

Currently, I'm Founder & CEO of LightScale Inc.

Ph.D. EECS — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dropped out
S.M. EECS — Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2026
S.B. Electronics and Computer Engineering — KTH Royal Institute of Technology 2023

CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology August 2023 – Present

Graduate Researcher advised by Professor Antonio Torralba Cambridge, MA
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 2022 – June 2023

Visiting Student working with Professor Antonio Torralba Cambridge, MA
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology February 2021 – April 2022

Research Intern working with Prof. Torralba, Dr. S Li, Dr. X Puig Cambridge, MA
Harvard–MIT May 2020 – December 2021

Research Intern working with Prof. Karp, Prof. Joshi, Dr. Joseph Cambridge, MA
Harvard–MIT Summer 2015

Research Intern working with Prof. Karp, Prof. Joshi Cambridge, MA

Hurwitz Quaternion Multiplicative Quantization for KV Cache Compression Kabir Swain, Sijie Han, Daniel Karl I. Weidele, Mauro Martino, David Cox, Antonio Torralba
Tensor Memory: Fixed-Size Recurrent State for Long-Horizon Transformers Kabir Swain*, Sijie Han*, Daniel Karl I. Weidele, Mauro Martino, Antonio Torralba
Tensor Cache: Eviction-conditioned Associative Memory for Transformers Kabir Swain, Sijie Han, Daniel Karl I. Weidele, Mauro Martino, Antonio Torralba
EnvDreamer: Large-Scale Multimodal-to-Environment Generation for Embodied AI Kabir Swain*, Sijie Han*, Antonio Torralba
VirtualEnv: A Platform for Embodied AI Research Kabir Swain, Sijie Han, Ayush Raina, Jin Zhang, Shuang Li, Michael Stopa, Antonio Torralba