Xilun Chen
RESEARCH SCIENTIST | SEATTLE, UNITED STATES
Xilun Chen is a Research Scientist at Meta AI. His research interests are in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. His work focuses on knowledge-intensive NLP tasks such as Information Retrieval and Question Answering, and more recently retrieval-augmented language models. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2019.
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Xilun's Publications
December 17, 2024
NLP
FLAME : Factuality-Aware Alignment for Large Language Models
Luyu Gao, Jimmy Lin, Xilun Chen, Barlas Oguz, Jack Lin, Scott Yih, Wenhan Xiong
December 17, 2024
June 14, 2024
NLP
How to Train Your DRAGON: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval
Akari Asai, Minghan Li, Jimmy Lin, Xilun Chen, Barlas Oguz, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Scott Yih
June 14, 2024
June 05, 2024
CORE MACHINE LEARNING
An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling
Anurag Ajay, Alexander C. Li, Suzanne Petryk, Zhiqiu Lin, Anas Mahmoud, Jun Chen, Mazda Moayeri, Aishwarya Agrawal, Florian Bordes, Adrien Bardes, Arjang Talattof, Asli Celikyilmaz, Bargav Jayaraman, Candace Ross, Chuan Guo, Diane Bouchacourt, Ellen Tan, Haider Al-Tahan, Hu Xu, Jonathan Lebensold, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Karen Ullrich, Karthik Padthe, Kate Saenko, Kushal Tirumala, Mark Ibrahim, Megan Richards, Melissa Hall, Oscar Mañas, Pietro Astolfi, Quentin Garrido, Reyhane Askari, Richard Pang, Rim Assouel, Samuel Lavoie, Srihari Jayakumar, Vasu Sharma, Vikas Chandra, Xilun Chen, Yunyang Xiong, Zechun Liu
June 05, 2024
June 20, 2023
NLP
CITADEL: Conditional Token Interaction via Dynamic Lexical Routing for Efficient and Effective Multi-Vector Retrieval
Jimmy Lin, Xilun Chen, Asish Ghoshal, Barlas Oguz, Jack Lin, Minghan Li, Scott Yih, Yashar Mehdad
June 20, 2023
June 06, 2023
NLP
Task-aware Retrieval with Instructions
Sebastian Riedel, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Scott Yih, Akari Asai, Gautier Izacard, Patrick Lewis, Timo Schick, Xilun Chen
June 06, 2023
July 07, 2022
NLP
CCQA: A New Web-Scale Question Answering Dataset for Model Pre-Training
Xilun Chen, Armen Aghajanyan, Barlas Oguz, Scott Yih, Sonal Gupta, Patrick Huber
July 07, 2022
May 06, 2022
Domain-matched Pre-training Tasks for Dense Retrieval
Barlas Oguz, Aleksandra Piktus, Anchit Gupta, Kushal Lakhotia, Patrick Lewis, Scott Yih, Sebastian Riedel, Sonal Gupta, Vladimir Karpukhin, Xilun Chen, Yashar Mehdad
May 06, 2022
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