About Dave Lage

Web Product Engineer, Community Builder, Naturalist

About

Developing tools for building image and captioning datasets, training computer vision models, and building analysis tools.

Experience building social networks, distributed pipelines, website builders, e-commerce websites, software architecture (ORM, MVC), CI/CD systems.

Working on

• Building [parameter efficient model analysis][lora-inspector] and [tokenizer][sd-tokenizer] tools in the browser
• Building [aesthetic prediction models][aesthetic-prediction] (Preference, Rating)
• Enhancing [training systems for Stable Diffusion][kohya-ss-enhanced]
• Building Image captioning models using LoRA and other parameter efficient methods.
• Building [dataset creation, filtering, captioning pipeline][stable-diffusion-pipeline] tools
• Building [image rating and preference capturing tooling][image-scorer] for aesthetic modeling (DPO, Aesthetic Predictor)
• Building [stable diffusion scripts][sd-ext] for analysis, conversion, pruning, scaling, evaluation
• Building [transformers cross-attention visualization tooling][daam] with flexibility (DAAM)
• Experimenting with Rust candle ML for training, inference, and WASM
• Teaching and helping others learn to fine-tune foundation models

Find me elsewhere

• GitHub — https://github.com/rockerBOO
• LinkedIn — https://linkedin.com/in/rockerBOO
• Civitai — https://civitai.com/user/rockerBOO
• Discord — rockerBOO
• YouTube — https://youtube.com/c/rockerBOO
• Twitch — https://twitch.tv/rockerBOO
• GitLab — https://gitlab.com/rockerBOO

[sd-tokenizer]: https://davelage.com/projects/sd-tokenizer/ [daam]: https://davelage.com/projects/daam/ [sd-ext]: https://davelage.com/projects/sd-ext/ [stable-diffusion-pipeline]: https://davelage.com/posts/stable-diffusion-pipeline-from-video/ [kohya-ss-enhanced]: https://davelage.com/projects/kohya-ss-enhanced/ [aesthetic-prediction]: https://davelage.com/projects/aesthetic-predictor/ [lora-inspector]: https://davelage.com/projects/lora-inspector/ [image-scorer]: https://davelage.com/projects/image-scorer/