Cristian Canton Ferrer

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | SEATTLE, UNITED STATES

Cristian is a Research Scientist Manager on the AI Integrity Team at Facebook AI Applied Research. His research interests lie in the field of computer vision and adversarial machine learning. Cristian currently supports the AI Red Team, which focuses on understanding weaknesses and vulnerabilities derived from the use (or misuse) of AI, related to misinformation and election interference. Previously at Facebook, he managed teams related to the detection of the objectionable and harmful content domain. Prior to joining Facebook, Cristian worked at Microsoft Research and Vicon. He received an M.S. from EPFL in Switzerland and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona.

Cristian's Work

Cristian's Publications

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

July 18, 2023

CONVERSATIONAL AI

NLP

Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Moya Chen, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Thibaut Lavril, Hugo Touvron, Adina Williams, Alan Schelten, Amjad Almahairi, Andrew Kuan, Andrew Poulton, Angela Fan, Anthony Hartshorn, Artem Korenev, Aurelien Rodriguez, Binh Tang, Brian Fuller, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Cynthia Gao, Dan Bikel, David Esiobu, Diana Liskovich, Xiaoqing Ellen Tan, Eric Michael Smith, Guillem Cucurull, Hakan Inan, Igor Molybog, Iliyan Zarov, Isabel Kloumann, Puxin Xu, Jenya Lee, Jeremy Fu, Jeremy Reizenstein, Jude Fernandes, Kalyan Saladi, Kevin Stone, Louis Martin, Lukas Blecher, Madian Khabsa, Marcin Kardas, Melanie Kambadur, Naman Goyal, Nikolay Bashlykov, Peter Albert, Praj Bhargava, Punit Singh Koura, Pushkar Mishra, Ranjan Subramanian, Rashi Rungta, Robert Stojnic, Ross Taylor, Ruan Silva, Rui Hou, Saghar Hosseini, Sergey Edunov, Sharan Narang, Shruti Bhosale, Soumya Batra, Thomas Scialom, Todor Mihaylov, Vedanuj Goswami, Viktor Kerkez, Wenyin Fu, Xavier Martinet, Yasmine Babaei, Yinghai Lu, Yixin Nie, Yuchen Zhang, Yuning Mao, Zheng Yan

July 18, 2023

March 09, 2023

COMPUTER VISION

The Casual Conversations v2 Dataset

Caner Hazirbas, Bilal Porgali, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Jordan Ryda, Vítor Albiero

March 09, 2023

April 05, 2022

Generating High Fidelity Data from Low-density Regions using Diffusion Models

Caner Hazirbas, Albert Gordo, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Firat Ozgenel, Vikash Sehwag

April 05, 2022

December 01, 2021

Adversarial Threats to DeepFake Detection: A Practical Perspective

Cristian Canton Ferrer, Brian Dolhansky, Joanna Bitton, Paarth Neekhara

December 01, 2021

May 14, 2021

INTEGRITY

NLP

Hate Speech in Pixels: Detection of Offensive Memes towards Automatic Moderation

Benet Oriol, Xavier Giro-i-Nieto, Cristian Canton Ferrer

May 14, 2021