Scala Days 2026

Benjamin Meyer

PhD candidate at the University of Zurich in computer vision, with a focus on applied deep learning in document recognition and echocardiography.

Scala enthusiast working on Scala-based open-source machine learning projects such as DimWit, DeepWit, and ScalaGrad.


Company/Organisation:

ZHAW (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) at the Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)


Session

10-13
12:25
5min
DimWit - Tensor programming with wit
Benjamin Meyer, Marcel Lüthi

We present DimWit, a system for writing readable numerical and machine learning code. DimWit's core feature is a trait-based implementation of the named tensor notation, which improves readability and type-safety compared to standard tensors. We illustrate how to write machine learning models using DimWit, and discuss our experience training GPT-2.

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