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Jon Barron is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco who leads a small team that mostly works on NeRF.
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Jon Barron Finds Two Bugs in Softmax and Cross-Entropy Hiding in Every Major ML Framework
arXivpositiveOct 26, 2026
“Discovered two numerical bugs in softmax and cross-entropy implementations present in every major ML framework.”
Jon Barron: Softmax and Cross-Entropy Numerical Issues Research
XpositiveOct 24, 2026
“Reported discovering two numerical issues in conventional softmax and cross-entropy implementations across JAX, PyTorch and textbooks, with a rewrite that eliminates grokking slingshots.”
Jon Barron Quote from CVPR 2026
CVPR 2026positiveJun 5, 2026
“Quoted at CVPR 2026 on importance of advisors using modern agentic IDEs.”