I am a research engineer at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), currently focusing on neural machine translation and natural language processing. Prior to joining Facebook, I led a machine learning team at Quora, and before that I spent some time working on search ranking for Bing at Microsoft.
Interests
AI, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision
Latest Publications
IROS - September 30, 2021
Learning Navigation Skills for Legged Robots with Learned Robot Embeddings
Joanne Truong, Denis Yarats, Tianyu Li, Franziska Meier, Sonia Chernova, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai
L4DC - June 7, 2021
On the model-based stochastic value gradient for continuous reinforcement learning
Brandon Amos, Samuel Stanton, Denis Yarats, Andrew Gordon Wilson
NeurIPS - December 2, 2019
Hierarchical Decision Making by Generating and Following Natural Language Instructions
Hengyuan Hu, Denis Yarats, Qucheng Gong, Yuandong Tian, Mike Lewis
ICML 2018 - July 10, 2018
Hierarchical Text Generation and Planning for Strategic Dialogue
Denis Yarats, Mike Lewis
ICML 2017 - August 6, 2017
Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning
Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, David Grangier, Denis Yarats, Yann N. Dauphin
EMNLP 2017 - September 8, 2017
Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues
Mike Lewis, Denis Yarats, Yann Dauphin, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra