I am a research scientist at Facebook, NY, as of Feb 2014. I earned my PhD in machine learning at Royal Holloway, University of London and at AT&T Research in Red Bank, NJ (advisors: Alex Gammerman, Volodya Vovk and Vladimir Vapnik) in 2000. From 2000 to 2002, I was a researcher at Biowulf technologies, New York. From 2002 to 2003 I was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany. From 2003 to 2009 I was a research staff member at NEC Labs America, Princeton. From 2009 to 2014 I was a research scientist at Google, NY. I have authored papers in the areas of machine learning, NLP, speech, vision and bioinformatics, including best paper awards at ICML and ECML. At Google, I was part of the YouTube team that won a National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering for Personalized Recommendation Engines for Video Discovery.
Interests
Machine learning algorithms and applications to language understanding
Latest Publications
arXiv - October 22, 2020
Recipes for Safety in Open-domain Chatbots
Jing Xu, Da Ju, Margaret Li, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston, Emily Dinan
ACL - June 22, 2020
Don’t Say That! Making Inconsistent Dialogue Unlikely with Unlikelihood Training
Margaret Li, Stephen Roller, Ilia Kulikov, Sean Welleck, Y-Lan Boureau, Kyunghyun Cho, 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
ACL - June 5, 2020
Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding
Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela
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
EMNLP - November 5, 2019
Recommendation as a Communication Game: Self-Supervised Bot-Play for Goal-oriented Dialogue
Dongyeop Kang, Anusha Balakrishnan, Pararth Shah, Paul A. Crook, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston
EMNLP - November 4, 2019
Finding Generalizable Evidence by Learning to Convince Q&A Models
Ethan Perez, Siddharth Karamcheti, Rob Fergus, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela, Kyunghyun Cho
EMNLP - November 2, 2019
Build it Break it Fix it for Dialogue Safety: Robustness from Adversarial Human Attack
Emily Dinan, Samuel Humeau, Bharath Chintagunta, Jason Weston
EMNLP - November 1, 2019
Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game
Jack Urbanek, Angela Fan, Siddharth Karamcheti, Saachi Jain, Samuel Humeau, Emily Dinan, Tim Rocktäschel, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
NAACL - July 28, 2019
What makes a good conversation? How controllable attributes affect human judgments
Abigail See, Stephen Roller, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
ACL - July 28, 2019
ELI5: Long Form Question Answering
Angela Fan, Yacine Jernite, Ethan Perez, David Grangier, Jason Weston, Michael Auli
arXiv - July 18, 2019
Why Build an Assistant in Minecraft?
Arthur Szlam, Jonathan Gray, Kavya Srinet, Yacine Jernite, Armand Joulin, Gabriel Synnaeve, Douwe Kiela, Haonan Yu, Zhuoyuan Chen, Siddharth Goyal, Demi Guo, Danielle Rothermel, Larry Zitnick, Jason Weston
CVPR - June 4, 2019
Engaging Image Captioning via Personality
Kurt Shuster, Samuel Humeau, Hexiang Hu, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston
EMNLP 2018 - November 2, 2018
Jump to better conclusions: SCAN both left and right
Joost Bastings, Marco Baroni, Jason Weston, Kyunghyun Cho, Douwe Kiela
SCAI Workshop at EMNLP 2018 - October 31, 2018
Retrieve and Refine: Improved Sequence Generation Models For Dialogue
Jason Weston, Emily Dinan, Alexander H. Miller
ACL 2018 - July 15, 2018
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
Saizheng Zhang, Emily Dinan, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
ICLR 2018 - April 30, 2018
Emergent Translation in Multi-Agent Communication
Jason Lee, Kyunghyun Cho, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela
ICLR 2018 - April 30, 2018
Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent
Zhilin Yang, Saizheng Zhang, Jack Urbanek, Will Feng, Alexander H. Miller, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
AAAI 2018 - February 2, 2018
StarSpace: Embed All The Things!
Ledell Wu, Adam Fisch, Sumit Chopra, Keith Adams, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston
EMNLP 2017 - September 9, 2017
ParlAI: A Dialog Research Software Platform
Alexander H. Miller, Will Feng, Adam Fisch, Jiasen Lu, Dhruv Batra, Antoine Bordes, Devi Parikh, Jason Weston
ACL 2017 - July 30, 2017
Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions
Danqi Chen, Adam Fisch, Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes
ICLR 2017 - April 24, 2017
Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog
Antoine Bordes, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston
ICLR 2017 - April 24, 2017
Dialogue Learning with Human-in-the-Loop
Jiwei Li, Alexander Miller, Sumit Chopra, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Jason Weston
ICLR 2017 - April 24, 2017
Learning through Dialogue Interactions by Asking Questions
Jiwei Li, Alexander Miller, Sumit Chopra, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Jason Weston
ICLR 2017 - April 24, 2017
Tracking the World State with Recurrent Entity Networks
Mikael Henaff, Jason Weston, Arthur Szlam, Antoine Bordes, Yann LeCun
EMNLP - June 8, 2016
Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading Documents
Alexander Miller, Adam Fisch, Jesse Dodge, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston
ICLR - April 19, 2016
Evaluating Prerequisite Qualities for Learning End-to-end Dialog Systems
Jesse Dodge, Andreea Gane, Xiang Zhang, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Alexander Miller, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
ICLR - April 1, 2016
The Goldilocks Principle: Reading Children’s Books with Explicit Memory Representations
Felix Hill, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Jason Weston
ArXiv - June 22, 2015
Large-Scale Simple Question Answering with Memory Networks
Antoine Bordes, Nicolas Usunier, Sumit Chopra, Jason Weston
NIPS - June 22, 2015
End-To-End Memory Networks
Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Rob Fergus
EMNLP - September 4, 2014
Question Answering with Subgraph Embeddings
Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra
EMNLP - September 4, 2014
#TagSpace: Semantic Embeddings from Hashtags
Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra, Keith Adams
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