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Xinlei Chen

Contributes to multimodal work at OpenAI; formerly at xAI and Meta FAIR; first author of SimSiam

  • Contributes to OpenAI's multimodal work, OpenAI1

Xinlei Chen's site says Chen is at OpenAI, contributing to its multimodal work, after serving as a Member of Technical Staff at xAI on multimodal understanding and generation and as a Research Scientist at Meta FAIR working on pre-training and understanding visual representations. Chen is first author, with Kaiming He, of the 2020 SimSiam paper on simple Siamese representation learning, first author of a 2021 study of training self-supervised Vision Transformers that benchmarks MoCo v3, and a co-author of Masked Autoencoders (MAE).1234

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

  1. 1.
    Xinlei Chen — homepage (external site: xinleic.xyz)

    Xinlei Chen · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  2. 2.
    Exploring Simple Siamese Representation Learning (arXiv 2011.10566) (external site: arxiv.org)

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

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    Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners (arXiv 2111.06377) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Nov 11, 2021 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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