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Alexei Baevski

First author of wav2vec 2.0 and data2vec at Facebook AI; fairseq co-author

  • Company listed on Baevski's GitHub profile, Google1

Alexei Baevski is first author of wav2vec 2.0, a framework for self-supervised learning of speech representations whose paper lists the authors at Facebook AI, and of data2vec, which applies one self-supervised learning method to speech, vision, and language. Baevski is also a co-author of fairseq, Facebook AI Research's MIT-licensed sequence modeling toolkit, whose repository lists wav2vec 2.0 among its examples, and of the Massively Multilingual Speech paper on scaling speech technology to more than 1,000 languages. Baevski's GitHub profile lists Google as the current company.23456781

Work

  • wav2vec 2.0 (external site: arxiv.org)Published research

    First author of wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations (2020), with Henry Zhou, Abdelrahman Mohamed, and Michael Auli.23

  • data2vec (external site: arxiv.org)Published research

    First author of data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language (2022); the paper says models and code are available in the fairseq repository.45

  • fairseq (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    Co-author of fairseq: A Fast, Extensible Toolkit for Sequence Modeling (2019). The fairseq repository is published under the MIT license and lists wav2vec 2.0 (Baevski et al., 2020) among its implemented papers.67

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    alexeib (Alexei Baevski) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    wav2vec 2.0 — paper PDF (author affiliation: Facebook AI) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Jun 20, 2020 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    data2vec — paper PDF (author affiliation: Meta AI; code statement) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Feb 7, 2022 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    facebookresearch/fairseq README and license (external site: github.com)

    Meta (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages (arXiv 2305.13516) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published May 22, 2023 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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