Gabriel Synnaeve
RESEARCH SCIENTIST | NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES
Gabriel Synnaeve is a research scientist on the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team, who joined as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015. Prior to Facebook, Gabriel was a postdoctoral fellow in Emmanuel Dupoux’s team at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, working on reverse-engineering the acquisition of language in babies. Gabriel received his PhD in Bayesian modeling applied to real-time strategy games AI from the University of Grenoble in 2012. Gabriel programmed a bot that placed 4th in the AAAI AIIDE 2012 StarCraft AI competition. In 2009, Gabriel worked on inductive logic programming applied to systems biology at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.
Research Areas
Gabriel's Publications
September 24, 2025
RESEARCH
NLP
CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models
Chris Cummins, Hugh Leather, Aram Markosyan, Matteo Pagliardini, Tal Remez, Volker Seeker, Marco Selvi, Lingming Zhang, Abhishek Charnalia, Alex Gu, Badr Youbi Idrissi, Christian Keller, Daniel Haziza, David Zhang, Dmitrii Pedchenko, Emily McMilin, Fabian Gloeckle, Felix Kreuk, Francisco Massa, François Fleuret, Gabriel Synnaeve, Gal Cohen, Gallil Maimon, Jacob Kahn, Jade Copet, Jannik Kossen, Jonas Gehring, Jordi Armengol-Estape, Juliette Decugis, Keyur Muzumdar, Kunhao Zheng, Luca Wehrstedt, Maximilian Beck, Michael Hassid, Michel Meyer, Naila Murray, Oren Sultan, Ori Yoran, Pedram Bashiri, Peter O'Hearn, Pierre Chambon, Pierre-Emmanuel Mazaré, Quentin Carbonneaux, Rahul Kindi, Sida Wang, Taco Cohen, Vegard Mella, Yossi Adi, Yuxiang Wei, Zacharias Fisches
September 24, 2025
December 09, 2024
NLP
CORE MACHINE LEARNING
Discrete flow matching
Yaron Lipman, Felix Kreuk, Gabriel Synnaeve, Itai Gat, Ricky Chen, Tal Remez, Yossef (Yossi) Adi, Neta Shaul
December 09, 2024
June 27, 2024
SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization
Hugh Leather, Baptiste Rozière, Chris Cummins, Dejan Grubisic, Gabriel Synnaeve, Jonas Gehring, Volker Seeker
June 27, 2024
December 07, 2023
RESPONSIBLE AI
Purple Llama CyberSecEval: A benchmark for evaluating the cybersecurity risks of large language models
GenAI Cybersec Team, Spencer Whitman, Aleksandar Straumann, Cornelius Aschermann, Cyrus Nikolaidis, Daniel Song, David LeBlanc, Dhaval Kapil, Dominik Gabi, Faizan Ahmad, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ivan Evtimov, James Milazzo, Joshua Saxe, Lorenzo Fontana, Manish Bhatt, Ravi Prakash Giri, Sahana Chennabasappa, Sasha Frolov, Shengye Wan, Varun Vontimitta, Yiannis Kozyrakis
December 07, 2023
August 24, 2023
NLP
CORE MACHINE LEARNING
Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code
Faisal Azhar, Aaron Grattafiori, Alexandre Defossez, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Baptiste Rozière, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Ellen Tan, Fabian Gloeckle, Gabriel Synnaeve, Hugo Touvron, Itai Gat, Ivan Evtimov, Jade Copet, Jingyu Liu, Joanna Bitton, Jonas Gehring, Jérémy Rapin, Louis Martin, Manish Bhatt, Nicolas Usunier, Sten Sootla, Tal Remez, Thomas Scialom, Wenhan Xiong, Yossef (Yossi) Adi
August 24, 2023
August 19, 2023
NLP
EXPRESSO: A Benchmark and Analysis of Discrete Expressive Speech Resynthesis
Yossef Mordechay Adi, Antony D'Avirro, Bowen Shi, Emmanuel Dupoux, Felix Kreuk, Gabriel Synnaeve, Itai Gat, Jade Copet, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Michael Hassid, Tal Remez, Tu Anh Nguyen, Wei-Ning Hsu
August 19, 2023
February 25, 2023
NLP
CORE MACHINE LEARNING
CODE TRANSLATION WITH COMPILER REPRESENTATIONS
Marc Szafraniec, Baptiste Rozière, François Charton, Gabriel Synnaeve, Hugh Leather, Patrick Labatut
February 25, 2023
June 20, 2022
Flashlight: Enabling Innovation in Tools for Machine Learning
Jacob Kahn, Ann Lee, Benoit Steiner, Edouard Grave, Gabriel Synnaeve, Gilad Avidov, Paden Tomasello, Qiantong Xu, Ronan Collobert, Vineel Pratap, Vitaliy Liptchinksy, Awni Hannun, Jeff Cai, Tatiana Likhomanenko
June 20, 2022
December 05, 2021
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Hierarchical Skills for Efficient Exploration
andreas krause, Nicolas Usunier, Gabriel Synnaeve, Jonas Gehring
December 05, 2021
October 25, 2020
SPEECH & AUDIO
NLP
Real Time Speech Enhancement in the Waveform Domain
Alexandre Defossez, Gabriel Synnaeve, Yossef (Yossi) Adi
October 25, 2020
July 09, 2020
RESEARCH
NLP
Word-level Speech Recognition with a Letter to Word Encoder
Ronan Collobert, Awni Hannun, Gabriel Synnaeve
July 09, 2020
July 09, 2020
RESEARCH
Growing Action Spaces
Gabriel Synnaeve, Gregory Farquhar, Laura Gustafson, Nicolas Usunier, Zeming Lin, Shimon Whiteson
July 09, 2020
May 26, 2020
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
End-to-end object detection with Transformers
Nicolas Carion, Alexander Kirillov, Francisco Massa, Gabriel Synnaeve, Nicolas Usunier, Sergey Zagoruyko
May 26, 2020
April 30, 2019
RESEARCH
Value Propagation Networks
Nantas Nardelli, Gabriel Synnaeve, Nicolas Usunier, Zeming Lin, Philip H. S. Torr, Pushmeet Kohli
April 30, 2019
December 03, 2018
HUMAN & MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
RESEARCH
Forward Modeling for Partial Observation Strategy Games - A StarCraft Defogger
Gabriel Synnaeve, Daniel Gant, Jonas Gehring, Nicolas Carion, Nicolas Usunier, Vasil Khalidov, Vegard Mella, Zeming Lin
December 03, 2018
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