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Douwe Kiela
@douwekiela
Contextualizing AI @GoogleDeepMind, ex-@ContextualAI CEO, @Stanford Adjunct Prof
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Apr 6
    Super proud of this paper - work on optimization in context space is really just getting started.
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    Nikita Vassilyev
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    Apr 6
    1/ New paper: Reflective Context Learning (RCL) We study how to optimize what's in an agent's context (playbooks, memory, guidelines) using the same principles that make SGD work: batching, momentum, replay, credit assignment.
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Jan 10, 2022
    Personal news! Today is my first day @huggingface! I'm going to help build out a world-class research lab. Thrilled to be joining such an amazing team! In my new role I plan to be more active on Twitter so be sure to follow for updates🤗
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    Douwe Kiela
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    May 13, 2025
    Today, we're introducing our document parser built specifically for RAG. The parser combines the best vision, OCR, and vision language models to deliver unmatched accuracy. Try it for free today—the first 500+ pages are on us! app.contextual.ai/?signup=1&utm_… 🧵 1/
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Mar 22, 2022
    🎉🎉🎉 Happy to officially announce the @huggingface 🤗 AI Research Residency Program, a great opportunity to launch or advance your career in machine learning research 🚀 Read more and/or apply here: hf.co/blog/ai-reside…
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Dec 11, 2022
    Woohoo we won #EMNLP2022 best demo! 🤗 That’s three in a row for @huggingface 🤯🔥 2020 - Transformers 2021 - Datasets 2022 - Evaluate & Evaluation on the Hub
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Jan 2, 2025
    I’m really sad that my dear friend @FelixHill84 is no longer with us. He had many friends and colleagues all over the world - to try to ensure we reach them, his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Mar 11, 2025
    AI struggles with messy, conflicting, ever-changing data. Today's AI ranking methods can't prioritize clearly, because they lack human guidance. Introducing the world's first instruction-following, SOTA reranker! Give our reranker instructions to control exactly how it ranks: •
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Jan 27, 2022
    🥳 We are hiring researchers and research interns! Apply here: apply.workable.com/huggingface. People with characteristics that are underrepresented in tech are especially encouraged to apply. We will also be having a residency program soon @HuggingFace, stay tuned! 🤗
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Sep 24, 2020
    I’m super excited to announce Dynabench - a new and ambitious research platform for dynamic data collection and benchmarking: dynabench.org 1/n
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Jun 7, 2023
    Super excited to announce that @apsdehal and I have launched a new company: @ContextualAI! Why did we start it? Because LLMs are going to radically change the way enterprises operate, and we see a huge need for LLMs that actually work for enterprise use cases. 1/5
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    Douwe Kiela
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    May 31, 2022
    Machine learning is about algorithms, compute, data and measurement. The last one is often glossed over, but it’s hugely important: to understand our amazing progress, and current limitations, we need to improve how we do evaluation. Today, we introduce 🤗Evaluate to help! (1/4)
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    Douwe Kiela
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    May 12, 2020
    Excited to announce the Hateful Memes Challenge, a new dataset and competition for vision and language, focusing on multimodal understanding and reasoning: arxiv.org/abs/2005.04790 "Mean" memes shown here as an illustration of the problem. Some highlights: (1/7)
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Apr 4, 2022
    In addition to my new role at @huggingface, I have joined @Stanford as an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems. Very excited to get to work with bright students on cutting edge open source ML projects, alongside such brilliant colleagues as @chrisgpotts and @michaelfrank.
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Jan 10, 2022
    Personal news! Today is my first day @huggingface! I'm going to help build out a world-class research lab. Thrilled to be joining such an amazing team! In my new role I plan to be more active on Twitter so be sure to follow for updates🤗
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    Douwe Kiela
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    Jan 3, 2023
    Life update: After working with the most wonderful team, coining “BLOOM” and winning EMNLP best demo, I have moved on from @huggingface. I’m very excited for what’s next!
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