Angela Fan
Llama 3 core contributor and Llama 2 co-author; machine translation research at Meta's FAIR, including NLLB
Meta's AI people page describes Angela Fan as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) focusing on machine translation. Fan is a co-author of No Language Left Behind (2022), whose authors open sourced the work in the fairseq repository, and of the fairseq sequence-modeling toolkit paper (2019), and first author of Hierarchical Neural Story Generation (2018). Fan co-authored Llama 2 (2023) and is listed among the core contributors of The Llama 3 Herd of Models (2024).145723
Work
Llama 2 and Llama 3Open weights
Co-author of Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models (2023), which develops and releases pretrained and fine-tuned models from 7 to 70 billion parameters, and listed among the core contributors of The Llama 3 Herd of Models (2024).23
No Language Left Behind (NLLB) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation (2022), whose abstract says all contributions are open sourced in the fairseq repository's nllb branch; the fairseq repository is published under the MIT License.46
fairseq (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of fairseq: A Fast, Extensible Toolkit for Sequence Modeling (2019); the repository is published under the MIT License.56
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Research Scientist, Meta (Facebook AI Research, FAIR)13
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