Researchers — page 17

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

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

1932

Mariama Drame

Open-source tooling for modern NLP (Transformers library)

Hugging Face

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

1933

Marianne Monteiro

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.

1934

Maribeth Rauh

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1935

Marie Pellat

Pathways-scale language modeling (PaLM)

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Co-authored PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

1936

Marie-Anne Lachaux

Open-weight foundation models (LLaMA)

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

Important for the open-weight frontier-model story because her paper trail runs through both the original LLaMA releases and the early Mistral efficiency push.

1937

Mariko Iinuma

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1938

Marin Georgiev

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1939

Marina Coelho

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1940

Mario Lučić

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1941

Mario Saltarelli

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

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

1942

Marissa Bredesen

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1943

Mark Chen

Large-scale language modeling (GPT-3)

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

Co-authored GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.

1944

Mark Geller

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1945

Mark Goldenson

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1946

Mark Iverson

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.

1947

Mark Omernick

Pathways-scale language modeling (PaLM)

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Co-authored PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

1948

Marko Radmilac

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

1949

Martin Baeuml

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1950

Martin Bölle

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1951

Martin Cai

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

1952

Martin Chadwick

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1953

Martin Görner

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.

1954

Martin Lucas

Model-written evaluations for LM behavior

Anthropic

Co-authored model-written evals: a practical technique for discovering and measuring LM behaviors.

Post-Training & Alignment Evaluation & Benchmarks Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations

1955

Martin Polacek

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1956

Martin Riedmiller

Deep Q-Networks (DQN)

Co-authored the original DQN preprint: a core reference for deep reinforcement learning.

Reinforcement Learning Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

1957

Martin Wicke

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1958

Martynas Mankus

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

1959

Marvin Ritter

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1960

Marvin Zhang

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

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

1961

Mary Phuong

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1962

Masahiro Tanaka

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

1963

Mat Velloso

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.

1964

Matan Danos

Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)

AI21

Useful because it captures one of the less-visible people behind AI21’s training stack, where hybrid-model quality depends as much on pre- and post-training choices as on the architectural headline.

Post-Training & Alignment Systems & Infrastructure JAMBA: Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Models

1965

Matan Eyal

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

1966

Matan Hasson

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

Systems & Infrastructure Agents & Reasoning Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding

1967

Matan Kalman

Faster LLM inference via speculative decoding

An important systems page because he is one of the named authors on speculative decoding, a technique that became part of the mainstream conversation about making large-model inference materially faster without changing outputs.

1968

Mateo Wirth

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.

1969

Mateusz Litwin

Large-scale language modeling (GPT-3)

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

Co-authored GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.

1970

Mathew Oldham

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

1971

Mathias Carlen

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1972

Mathieu Rita

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

Vision & Robotics Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers

1973

Mathilde Caron

Self-supervised vision transformers (DINO)

Co-authored DINO: influential self-supervised representation learning for vision transformers.

1974

Matt Davidow

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.

1975

Matt Fredrikson

Universal jailbreak-style attacks on aligned LMs

Co-authored universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models.

Security & Robustness Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models

1976

Matt Hoffman

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.

1977

Matt Knight

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

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

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

1978

Matt Mazzola

Small, capable models (Phi-3)

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

1979

Matt Miller

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.

1980

Matt Thomas

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1981

Matt Wiethoff

Frontier model development (GPT-4)

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

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Code Models Matteo Grella at Crisis24

1982

Matteo Grella

RWKV and efficient sequence modeling

Worth keeping because he is one of the original RWKV coauthors who clearly did not stop there: his public work moves into production AI for crisis intelligence, security-aware infrastructure tooling, and later open-LLM experimentation.

1983

Matthew Aitchison

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1984

Matthew Dixon

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

1985

Matthew E. Peters

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

1986

Matthew Fritze

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1987

Matthew Hayes

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1988

Matthew Jagielski

Training-data extraction and privacy risks

Co-authored Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models: a core paper on memorization and extraction risk.

Security & Robustness Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models

1989

Matthew Johnson

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1990

Matthew Knight

Code-focused LLMs and evaluation (Codex)

Evaluation & Benchmarks Code Models Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

Co-authored the Codex evaluation paper: an early anchor for code LLM capability measurement.

1991

Matthew Lai

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.

1992

Matthew Lamm

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1993

Matthew Lennie

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

1994

Matthew Mauger

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1995

Matthew Rahtz

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.

1996

Matthew Tancik

Neural radiance fields (NeRF)

Co-authored NeRF: a foundational paper for neural rendering and 3D scene representations.

Vision & Robotics NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis

1997

Matthew Tung

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

1998

Matthew Watson

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.

1999

Matthias Minderer

Vision Transformers (ViT)

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

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

2000

Matthias Plappert

Code-focused LLMs and evaluation (Codex)

Evaluation & Benchmarks Code Models Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

Co-authored the Codex evaluation paper: an early anchor for code LLM capability measurement.

2001

Matthias Reso

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

2002

Matthieu Geist

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2003

Maulik Shah

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2004

Max Bileschi

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2005

Max Chang

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2006

Maxim Groshev

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

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

2007

Maxim Krikun

Efficient MoE scaling (GLaM)

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

2008

Maxim Kunakov

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!

2009

Maxim Naumov

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

2010

Maya Lathi

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

2011

Maya Pavlova

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

2012

Mayank Chaturvedi

Open multimodal models (Gemma 3)

Co-authored the Gemma 3 Technical Report.

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

2013

Mayank Mishra

Open code LLMs (StarCoder)

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

2014

Meenu Gaba

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2015

Meg Risdal

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.

2016

Megan Barnes

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2017

Megha Goel

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2018

Meghan Keneally

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

2019

Meghana Thotakuri

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2020

Mehdi Cherti

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

2021

Mehran Kazemi

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.

2022

Mehrdad Khatir

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2023

Mei Gao

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

2024

Mei Li

Open-weight LLMs (Qwen)

Qwen

Co-authored the Qwen Technical Report.

Open Models Qwen Technical Report

2025

Melanie Kambadur

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.

2026

Melanie Moranski Preston

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2027

Melanie Subbiah

Large-scale language modeling (GPT-3)

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)

Co-authored GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.

2028

Melvin Johnson

Gemini (multimodal foundation models)

A strong person to study for multilingual systems and instruction tuning, especially where translation, speech, and large-model post-training intersect.

Multimodal Post-Training & Alignment Evaluation & Benchmarks Melvin Johnson

2029

Meng Li

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

DeepSeek

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Open Models DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

2030

Mengchen 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

2031

Mert Yuksekgonul

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

2032

Mia Chen

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2033

Mianna Chen

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2034

Miao Liu

Open-weight frontier models (Llama 3)

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

Open Models DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

2035

Miaojun Wang

Open-model frontier reports (DeepSeek-V3)

DeepSeek

Co-authored the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

2036

Michael Alverson

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2037

Michael Azzam

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2038

Michael B. Chang

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)

Multimodal Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models

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

2039

Michael Chung

RWKV and efficient sequence modeling

A useful page because it turns an otherwise stray RWKV byline into a visible builder profile: his public work is less about academic publishing and more about making efficient models, AI agents, and production RWKV systems usable in practice.

Open Models Systems & Infrastructure Agents & Reasoning Michael Chung

2040

Michael Fink

Multimodal frontier models (Gemini)