Daniel Han

Open-source work

Daniel Han made the first commits to the Unsloth repository on November 29, 2023, and the README's citation entry, dated 2023, credits Daniel Han, Michael Han and the Unsloth team as authors. The project's core package is licensed under Apache 2.0, with optional components such as the Studio interface under AGPL-3.0.³¹

The repository's CODEOWNERS file lists Daniel Han as area owner for training, reinforcement learning, kernels and diffusion training, and assigns the core library directories for kernels, model patching, optimizers and data preparation to Daniel Han.⁵

Products and projects

Unsloth now ships as a desktop app, a browser-based Studio interface and a Python package for running and fine-tuning models on local hardware, with guides for reinforcement learning, vision, text-to-speech and embedding fine-tuning. Release versions of the package have been published on the Python Package Index since August 2024.¹⁸⁹

Through the Unsloth organization on Hugging Face, of which Daniel Han is a member, the team publishes model uploads such as GGUF quantizations for running open models locally.⁷¹⁰

Work and contributions

• Unsloth (open-source library, Studio, and Desktop)

  Made the repository's initial commit and first upload of Unsloth code on 2023-11-29, and continues to author commits. The CODEOWNERS file names Daniel Han as area owner for training, reinforcement learning, kernels, and diffusion training, and the README's citation entry lists Daniel Han, Michael Han, and the Unsloth team as authors. The core library is Apache-2.0.³⁴⁵¹

• Unsloth on Hugging Face

  One of the two members listed on the Unsloth organization page on Hugging Face, where Unsloth publishes model uploads, including GGUF versions for running models locally.⁷¹

Timeline

1. Nov 29, 2023Made the initial commit and first code upload of the Unsloth repository.³
2. Aug 4, 2024Unsloth's first release currently listed on the Python Package Index (version 2024.8) was published.⁹
3. Oct 19, 2026Unsloth version 2026.10.7 was published on the Python Package Index.⁹

Where they work

• Unsloth 2 people in the wiki

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