Douwe Kiela
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
- Researcher, Google DeepMind1
- Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University1
Douwe Kiela is a researcher at Google DeepMind and an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Kiela co-founded Contextual AI and was its CEO, and earlier was Head of Research at Hugging Face and a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research. Kiela's site describes research on retrieval-augmented, grounded, and multi-agent language understanding and on tools for evaluation and benchmarking; Kiela is an author of the 2020 paper that introduced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), first author of the Dynabench paper on dynamic dataset creation and benchmarking, and a co-author of the paper on the OLMoE open mixture-of-experts models.1234
Work
OLMoEOpen weights
Co-author of "OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models" (2024); the abstract says the team open-sourced the model weights, training data, code, and logs.4
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks" (2020), which combined pre-trained language models with an explicit non-parametric memory for knowledge-intensive tasks.2
Dynabench (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of "Dynabench: Rethinking Benchmarking in NLP" (2021), which introduced an open-source platform for human-and-model-in-the-loop dataset creation and model benchmarking.3
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Co-founder and CEO, Contextual AI1
- Head of Research, Hugging Face1
- Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research (Meta)1
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