I joined Facebook AI Research as a research engineer in August of 2017. Prior to Facebook, I studied computer science at Cornell University, where I obtained both a Master of Engineering (M.Eng) degree and a BA degree.
Interests
I am currently working in dialogue research, with the goal of making more engaging and powerful conversational agents.
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Latest Publications
ACL-IJCNLP - August 2, 2021
Dialogue in the Wild: Learning from a Deployed Role-Playing Game with Humans and Bots
Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
ACL - June 19, 2020
Can You Put it All Together: Evaluating Conversational Agents’ Ability to Blend Skills
Eric Michael Smith, Mary Williamson, Kurt Shuster, Jason Weston, Y-Lan Boureau
ACL - June 19, 2020
The Dialogue Dodecathlon: Open-Domain Knowledge and Image Grounded Conversational Agents
Kurt Shuster, Da Ju, Stephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston
ACL - June 19, 2020
Image-Chat: Engaging Grounded Conversations
Kurt Shuster, Samuel Humeau, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston
ICLR - April 27, 2020
Poly-encoders: Transformer Architectures and Pre-training Strategies for Fast and Accurate Multi-sentence Scoring
Samuel Humeau, Kurt Shuster, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Jason Weston
The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning - December 12, 2019
The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)
Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. Black, Alexander Rudnicky, Jason Williams, Joelle Pineau, Jason Weston
CVPR - June 4, 2019
Engaging Image Captioning via Personality
Kurt Shuster, Samuel Humeau, Hexiang Hu, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston