Researchers — page 16

Open Models Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Co-authored Gemma: open models based on Gemini research and technology.

1815

Liselotte Snijders

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1816

Litong Wang

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

DeepSeek

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Open Models DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

1817

Livio Baldini Soares

Open language models (Gemma 2)

Open Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Co-authored Gemma 2: improving open language models at a practical size.

1818

Liyuan Liu

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

1819

Liyue Zhang

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

DeepSeek

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Open Models DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

1820

Liz Jenkins

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Post-Training & Alignment Security & Robustness Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features

1821

Llion Jones

Transformers

A foundational transformer co-author who is now worth following for a very different reason: he is one of the few people trying to build a serious frontier lab around alternatives to the default scaling path.

About Sakana AI

1822

Logan Engstrom

Adversarial robustness and feature learning

Co-authored “Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features”.

1823

Logan Kilpatrick

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

1824

Logesh Kumar Umapathi

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

1825

Long Ouyang

Instruction-following via RLHF (InstructGPT)

Post-Training & Alignment Systems & Infrastructure Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback

One of the clearest people to study for the early OpenAI RLHF stack, especially where human feedback moved from summarization experiments into general instruction-following systems.

1826

Lora Aroyo

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1827

Loren Maggiore

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1828

Lorenzo Blanco

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1829

Loubna Ben Allal

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

1830

Louis Martin

Open-weight chat and foundation models (Llama 2)

Open Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Co-authored Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

1831

Louis Rouillard

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1832

Lovish Madaan

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library

1833

Lu Fang

Deep learning infrastructure (PyTorch)

Co-authored the PyTorch paper describing the imperative-style deep learning framework.

1834

Lu Li

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1835

Lu Liu

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1836

Lu Wang

Parameter-efficient finetuning

Co-authored LoRA: one of the core techniques behind modern fine-tuning pipelines.

Systems & Infrastructure LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

1837

Lu Yuan

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

1838

Lubo Malo

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library

1839

Luca Antiga

Deep learning infrastructure (PyTorch)

Co-authored the PyTorch paper describing the imperative-style deep learning framework.

1840

Luca Soldaini

Open, fully-documented language models (OLMo)

AI2

Co-authored OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models.

Open Models OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models

1841

Luca Wehrstedt

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Vision & Robotics An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale

1842

Lucas Beyer

Vision Transformers (ViT)

Co-authored ViT: a turning point for transformers in vision.

1843

Lucas Dixon

Efficient MoE scaling (GLaM)

Co-authored GLaM: an influential MoE scaling reference in large language modeling.

Systems & Infrastructure GLaM: Efficient Scaling of Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts

1844

Lucas Gonzalez

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1845

Lucia Loher

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1846

Lucia Zheng

Holistic evaluation of language models (HELM)

Co-authored HELM: a framework for evaluating language models across many axes beyond raw accuracy.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

1847

Lucian Ionita

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1848

Luciano Martins

Open language models (Gemma 2)

Open Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Co-authored Gemma 2: improving open language models at a practical size.

1849

Lucile Saulnier

Mixture-of-experts LLMs

Mistral

Co-authored Mixtral of Experts: a key MoE reference in the open-weights frontier.

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Mixtral of Experts

1850

Ludovic Peran

Open language models from Google (Gemma)

Open Models Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Co-authored Gemma: open models based on Gemini research and technology.

1851

Ludwig Schmidt

Open large-scale image-text data (LAION-5B)

Co-authored LAION-5B: a widely used open dataset for vision-language foundation models.

Multimodal LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models

1852

Luheng He

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1853

Luis C. Cobo

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1854

Luiz Gustavo Martins

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1855

Lukas Blecher

Open-weight chat and foundation models (Llama 2)

Open Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Co-authored Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

1856

Lukas Landzaat

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

1857

Lukas Zilka

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1858

Lukasz Kaiser

Transformers

One of the clearest people to study if you want the throughline from early neural sequence models to transformers, efficient long-context variants, and modern reasoning systems.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Systems & Infrastructure Agents & Reasoning Virtual Event: Learning Powerful Models: From Transformers to Reasoners and Beyond

1859

Łukasz Kaiser

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Systems & Infrastructure Agents & Reasoning Virtual Event: Learning Powerful Models: From Transformers to Reasoners and Beyond

One of the clearest people to study if you want the throughline from early neural sequence models to transformers, efficient long-context variants, and modern reasoning systems.

1860

Łukasz Kondraciuk

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

1861

Luke de Oliveira

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

1862

Luke Metz

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

1863

Luke Miller

Instruction-following via RLHF (InstructGPT)

Post-Training & Alignment Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Co-authored the InstructGPT paper that set the standard instruction-tuning + RLHF recipe.

1864

Luke Vilnis

Open code models (CodeGemma)

Open Models Code Models CodeGemma: Open Code Models Based on Gemma

Co-authored CodeGemma: open code models based on Gemma.

1865

Luke Zettlemoyer

Efficient finetuning of quantized LLMs

A strong profile for the line from classic semantic parsing into modern tool use, retrieval, and language-model adaptation at scale.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Systems & Infrastructure Agents & Reasoning Luke Zettlemoyer - AI at Meta

1866

Luo Ji

Open-weight LLMs (Qwen)

Qwen

Co-authored the Qwen Technical Report.

Open Models Qwen Technical Report

1867

Luowei Zhou

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1868

Luyan Chi

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1869

Luyao Xu

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1870

Luyu Wang

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1871

Lynette Webb

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1872

Lysandre Debut

Open-source tooling for modern NLP (Transformers library)

Hugging Face

Co-authored the Hugging Face Transformers paper that helped standardize modern NLP workflows.

Open Models Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing

1873

Maarten Bosma

Pathways-scale language modeling (PaLM)

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Co-authored PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

1874

Machel Reid

Open language models from Google (Gemma)

Open Models Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Co-authored Gemma: open models based on Gemini research and technology.

1875

Maciej Kula

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1876

Maciej Mikuła

Open language models from Google (Gemma)

Open Models Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Co-authored Gemma: open models based on Gemini research and technology.

1877

Maddie Simens

Instruction-following via RLHF (InstructGPT)

Post-Training & Alignment Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback

A useful profile for the less visible OpenAI work that sits between major model releases and the documents that try to characterize what those models can actually do.

1878

Madelaine Boyd

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

1879

Madeleine B. Thompson

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

Co-authored the GPT-4 Technical Report: a key reference for the GPT-4-era frontier.

1880

Madeleine Elish

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1881

Madeline Muzzi

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

1882

Madhavi Yenugula

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1883

Madhu Gurumurthy

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1884

Madian Khabsa

Open-weight chat and foundation models (Llama 2)

Open Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Co-authored Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

1885

Mahdis Mahdieh

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1886

Mahesh Pasupuleti

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

1887

Mahmoud Alnahlawi

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1888

Mahoud Khademi

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

1889

Mahyar Bordbar

Generalist agents (Gato)

Multimodal Agents & Reasoning A Generalist Agent

Co-authored Gato: a key reference for generalist, multi-task agents.

1890

Mai Gimenez

Generalist agents (Gato)

Multimodal Agents & Reasoning A Generalist Agent

Co-authored Gato: a key reference for generalist, multi-task agents.

1891

Maigo Le

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1892

Mainak Chain

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1893

Maja Trebacz

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1894

Majd Al Merey

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1895

Maksim Mukha

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1896

Maksim Zabelin

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1897

Malcolm Reynolds

Few-shot vision-language models (Flamingo)

Multimodal Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

Co-authored Flamingo: an influential multimodal model for few-shot vision-language tasks.

1898

Malcolm Rose Harriott

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1899

Manaal Faruqui

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1900

Manan Dey

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

1901

Manav Avalani

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

1902

Mandy Guo

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1903

Mani Varadarajan

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1904

Manish Bhatt

Open foundation models for code (Code Llama)

Open Models Code Models Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code

Co-authored Code Llama: a key open-model reference for code generation and coding assistants.

1905

Manish Katyal

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1906

Manish Reddy Vuyyuru

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1907

Mannat Singh

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

1908

Manohar Paluri

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

Co-authored “The Llama 3 Herd of Models”.

Evaluation & Benchmarks Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding

1909

Mantas Mazeika

Broad capability evaluation (MMLU)

Co-authored MMLU: a widely used benchmark for general LLM capability across many subjects.

1910

Mantas Pajarskas

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1911

Manuel Kroiss

Frontier-scale training infrastructure

xAI

Builds core infrastructure for xAI’s frontier models.

Systems & Infrastructure xAI (site)

1912

Manuel Romero

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

1913

Manvinder Singh

Open language models (Gemma 2)

Open Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Co-authored Gemma 2: improving open language models at a practical size.

1914

Marah Abdin

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

Co-authored the Phi-3 Technical Report (capable models designed for smaller footprints).

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

1915

Marc Lanctot

Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

Reinforcement Learning Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

1916

Marc Marone

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

Co-authored StarCoder: a foundational open code model effort (BigCode).

Open Models Code Models StarCoder: may the source be with you!

1917

Marcella Valentine

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1918

Marcello Maggioni

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Co-authored Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models.

1919

Marcin Kardas

Open-weight chat and foundation models (Llama 2)

Open Models Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Co-authored Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

1920

Marcin Pikus

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)