--- title: "Zachary DeVito · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Zachary DeVito, Harvard University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2023), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zachary DeVito # Zachary DeVito Zachary DeVito has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2023; often with [Andrew Poulton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-poulton/), [Diana Liskovich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-liskovich/), [Igor Molybog](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/igor-molybog/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5008830900) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8863-1503) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130845962) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5008830900) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5008830900) · [26,807 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5008830900&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4,767 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5414](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/55/#star-5414) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Zachary+DeVito) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zachary+DeVito) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zachary+DeVito) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zachary+DeVito) ## Affiliations [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2017–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2024–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2010–2021 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Tensor Comprehensions: Framework-Agnostic High-Performance Machine Learning Abstractions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vasilache-2018-tensor-comprehensions-framework-agnostic-high/)** *(2018 · 323 citations)* Deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch and Caffe2 mostly hand computation off to vendor libraries like CUDNN and CUBLAS. 2. **[A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/molybog-2023-theory-adam-instability-large-scale/)** *(2023 · 15 citations)* Very large language models sometimes show sudden loss spikes during training, and the cause has not been explained. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Automatic differentiation in PyTorch ↗](https://openalex.org/W2899771611) no summary yet**Adam Paszke et al.*2017 · 10,764 citations* 2. [**Tensor Comprehensions: Framework-Agnostic High-Performance Machine Learning Abstractions arXiv:1802.04730**Nicolas Vasilache, Oleksandr Zinenko, Theodoros Theodoridis, et al.*2018 · 323 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vasilache-2018-tensor-comprehensions-framework-agnostic-high/) 3. [**A Theory on Adam Instability in Large-Scale Machine Learning arXiv:2304.09871**Igor Molybog, Peter Albert, Moya Chen, et al.*2023 · 15 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/molybog-2023-theory-adam-instability-large-scale/) ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrew Poulton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-poulton/) - [Diana Liskovich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diana-liskovich/) - [Igor Molybog](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/igor-molybog/) - [Moya Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moya-chen/) - [Naman Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naman-goyal/) - [Peter Albert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-albert/) - [Priya Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/priya-goyal/) - [Punit Singh Koura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/punit-singh-koura/) - [Sharan Narang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharan-narang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4,767 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [420 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-devito/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026