Douwe Kiela

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES

Douwe is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research in New York. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, Douwe earned an undergraduate degree from Utrecht University with a double major in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. He also earned a Master's degree in Logic at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. He focuses on machine learning and natural language processing. Douwe's research interests lie in developing better models for language understanding and grounded language learning.

Douwe's Work

Douwe's Publications

October 20, 2021

Gradient-based Adversarial Attacks against Text Transformers

Alexandre Sablayrolles, Chuan Guo, Douwe Kiela, Hervé Jegou

October 20, 2021

September 23, 2021

Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little

Koustuv Sinha, Adina Williams, Dieuwke Hupkes, Douwe Kiela, Joelle Pineau, Robin Jia

September 23, 2021

November 30, 2020

THEORY

RESEARCH

Learning Optimal Representations with the Decodable Information Bottleneck

Rama Vedantam, David Schwab, Douwe Kiela, Yann Dubois

November 30, 2020

June 29, 2020

RESEARCH

NLP

Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

Douwe Kiela, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Jason Weston, Mohit Bansal, Yixin Nie

June 29, 2020

April 26, 2020

RESEARCH

On the interaction between supervision and self-play in emergent communication

Douwe Kiela, Jakob Foerster, Joelle Pineau, Abhinav Gupta, Ryan Lowe

April 26, 2020

December 12, 2019

GRAPHICS

The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)

Emily Dinan, Alexander Miller, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jack Urbanek, Jason Weston, Joelle Pineau, Kurt Shuster, Ryan Lowe, Alan W Black , Alexander Rudnicky, Iulian Servan , Jason Williams, Mikhail Burtsev, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Valentin Malykh, Varvara Logacheva, Yoshua Bengio

December 12, 2019

November 04, 2019

RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

Countering Language Drift via Visual Grounding

Douwe Kiela, Kyunghyun Cho, Jason Lee

November 04, 2019

November 04, 2019

RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games

Douwe Kiela, Kyunghyun Cho, Laura Graesser

November 04, 2019

November 04, 2019

Finding Generalizable Evidence by Learning to Convince Q&A Models

Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston, Kyunghyun Cho, Rob Fergus, Siddharth Karamcheti, Ethan Perez

November 04, 2019

May 29, 2019

CONVERSATIONAL AI

RESEARCH

What makes a good conversation? How controllable attributes affect human judgments

Douwe Kiela, Abi See, Jason Weston, Stephen Roller

May 29, 2019

March 04, 2019

RESEARCH

NLP

No Training Required: Exploring Random Encoders for Sentence Classification

Douwe Kiela, John Wieting

March 04, 2019

November 02, 2018

RESEARCH

NLP

Jump to better conclusions: SCAN both left and right

Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston, Kyunghyun Cho, Marco Baroni, Joost Bastings

November 02, 2018

November 02, 2018

RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

Dynamic Meta-Embeddings for Improved Sentence Representations

Douwe Kiela, Changhan Wang, Kyunghyun Cho

November 02, 2018

July 16, 2018

RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora

Max Nickel, Douwe Kiela, Stephen Roller

July 16, 2018

July 15, 2018

RESEARCH

NLP

Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

Jason Weston, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Emily Dinan, Jack Urbanek, Saizheng Zhang

July 15, 2018