Holger Schwenk
RESEARCH ENGINEER | PARIS, FRANCE
Holger Schwenk is a research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, Paris. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in 1996. He then spent one year at the University of Montreal working with Y. Bengio and one year at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. From 1998 to 2007, Holger held an assistant professor position at the University of Paris 11/LIMSI. Prior to joining Facebook in 2015, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Le Mans where he led a large group on statistical machine translation. In 2013, Holger was awarded senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Holger's Publications
March 17, 2026
RESEARCH
NLP
Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages
Omnilingual MT Team, Niyati Bafna, Ioannis Tsiamas, Mark Duppenthaler, Albert Ventayol-Boada, Alexandre Mourachko, Andrea Caciolai, Arina Turkatenko, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Belen Alastruey, Charles-Eric Saint-James, Chierh CHENG, Christophe Ropers, Cynthia Gao, David Dale, Edan Toledo, Eduardo Sánchez, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Holger Schwenk, Jean Maillard, Joe Chuang, João Maria Janeiro, Kevin Heffernan, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Mary Williamson, Nate Ekberg, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Pere Lluís Huguet Cabot, Rashel Moritz, Shireen Yates, Surya Parimi
March 17, 2026
March 17, 2026
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
Omnilingual SONAR: Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Sentence Embeddings Bridging Massively Multilingual Text and Speech
Omnilingual SONAR Team, Ioannis Tsiamas, Yen Meng, Vivek Iyer, Guillem Ramirez, Jaehyeong Jo, Alexandre Mourachko, Yu-An Chung, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Belen Alastruey, Christophe Ropers, David Dale, Holger Schwenk, João Maria Janeiro, Kevin Heffernan, Loic Barrault, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Pere Lluís Huguet Cabot
March 17, 2026
February 27, 2026
HUMAN & MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
RESEARCH
Unified Vision–Language Modeling via Concept Space Alignment
Yifu Qiu, Holger Schwenk, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne
February 27, 2026
December 11, 2024
NLP
Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
The LCM team, Guillaume Couairon, Alexandre Mourachko, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Belen Alastruey, Christophe Ropers, David Dale, Eduardo Sánchez, Hady Elsahar, Holger Schwenk, João Maria Janeiro, Kevin Heffernan, Loic Barrault, Maha Elbayad, Mariano Coria, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Pierre Andrews, Robin San Roman, Safiyyah Saleem, Tuan Tran
December 11, 2024
November 30, 2023
SPEECH & AUDIO
NLP
Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation
Seamless Communication, Elahe Kalbassi, Xutai Ma, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Alexandre Mourachko, Alice Rakotoarison, Amanda Kallet, Yu-An Chung, Ann Lee, Anna Sun, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Benjamin Peloquin, Bokai Yu, Brian Ellis, Can Balioglu, Carleigh Wood, Changhan Wang, Christophe Ropers, Christophe Touret, Christopher Klaiber, Corinne Wong, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Licht, David Dale, Ethan Ye, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Guillaume Wenzek, Hady Elsahar, Hirofumi Inaguma, Holger Schwenk, Hongyu Gong, Ilia Kulikov, Ivan Evtimov, Jean Maillard, Jeff Wang, John Hoffman, Juan Pino, Justin Haaheim, Justine Kao, Prangthip Hansanti, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Kevin Heffernan, Loïc Barrault, Maha Elbayad, Mariano Coria Meglioli, Mark Duppenthaler, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Mary Williamson, Min-Jae Hwang, Ning Dong, Francisco Guzmán, Paden Tomasello, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Peng-Jen Chen, Pengwei Li, Pierre Andrews, Pierre Fernandez, Robin San Roman, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Safiyyah Saleem, Skyler Wang, Somya Jain, Sravya Popuri, Tuan Tran, Yilin Yang
November 30, 2023
November 29, 2023
NLP
SONAR EXPRESSIVE: Zero-shot Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation
Holger Schwenk, Alexandre Mourachko, Kevin Heffernan, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Benoit Sagot (INRIA)
November 29, 2023
August 22, 2023
SPEECH & AUDIO
NLP
SeamlessM4T—Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation
Seamless Communication, Safiyyah Saleem, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Alexandre Mourachko, Alice Rakotoarison, Amanda Kallet, Andy Chung, Ann Lee, Anna Sun, Bapi Akula, Benjamin Peloquin, Bernie Huang, Bokai Yu, Brian Ellis, Can Balioglu, Carleigh Wood, Changhan Wang, Christophe Ropers, Christopher Klaiber, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Li (FAIR), Daniel Licht, David Dale, Elahe Kalbassi, Ethan Ye, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Guillaume Wenzek, Hady Elsahar, Hirofumi Inaguma, Holger Schwenk, Hongyu Gong, Igor Tufanov, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lam, Jean Maillard, Jeff Wang (PM - AI), John Hoffman, Juan Pino, Justin Haaheim, Justine Kao, Prangthip Hasanti, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Kevin Heffernan, Kevin Tran, Loic Barrault, Maha Elbayad, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Mohamed Ramadan, Naji El Hachem, Ning Dong (AI), Onur Çelebi, Paco Guzmán, Paden Tomasello, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Peng-Jen Chen, Pengwei Li, Pierre Andrews, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Russ Howes, Skyler Wang, Somya Jain, Sravya Popuri, Tuan Tran, Vish Vogeti, Xutai Ma, Yilin Yang
August 22, 2023
August 21, 2023
NLP
SONAR: Sentence-Level Multimodal and Language-Agnostic Representations
Benoit Sagot, Holger Schwenk, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne
August 21, 2023
July 06, 2022
No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation
Shannon Spruit, Chau Tran, Marta Costa-jussa, Al Youngblood, Alex Mourachko, Angela Fan, Anna Sun, Bapi Akula, Christophe Ropers, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Licht, Dirk Rowe, Elahe Kalbassi, Francisco Guzmán, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Guillaume Wenzek, Holger Schwenk, James Cross, Janice Lam, Jean Maillard, Jeff Wang (PM - AI), John Hoffman, Kae Hansanti, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Kenneth Heafield, Kevin Heffernan, Loic Barrault, Maha Elbayad, Necip Fazil Ayan, Onur Çelebi, Philipp Koehn, Pierre Andrews, Safiyyah Saleem, Semarley Jarrett, Sergey Edunov, Shruti Bhosale, Skyler Wang, Vedanuj Goswami
July 06, 2022
February 06, 2022
RESEARCH
Multimodal and Multilingual Embeddings for Large-Scale Speech Mining
Holger Schwenk, Hongyu Gong, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne
February 06, 2022
July 26, 2020
Searching the Web for Cross-lingual Parallel Data
Ahmed Hassan El-Kishky, Holger Schwenk, Philipp Koehn
July 26, 2020
May 02, 2020
MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering
Patrick Lewis, Barlas Oguz, Holger Schwenk, Ruty Rinott, Sebastian Riedel
May 02, 2020
August 02, 2019
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
Low-Resource Corpus Filtering using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
Vishrav Chaudhary, Holger Schwenk, Paco Guzmán, Philipp Koehn, Yuqing Tang
August 02, 2019
October 29, 2018
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations
Alexis Conneau, Guillaume Lample, Holger Schwenk, Ruty Rinott, Ves Stoyanov, Adina Williams, Sam Bowman
October 29, 2018
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