Amr Sharaf

Researcher, Amazon, Amazon

Joined

October 2017

Names

Amr Sharaf

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Amazon, Amazon (amazon.com)

2025 – Present

Researcher

Meta, Facebook (meta.com)

2024 – 2025

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2021 – 2024

PhD student

University of Maryland (cs.umd.edu)

2015 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Hal Daumé III

Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

The Alignment Waltz: Jointly Training Agents to Collaborate for Safety
Jingyu Zhang, Haozhu Wang, Eric Michael Smith, Sid Wang, Amr Sharaf, Mahesh Pasupuleti, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi, Jason E Weston, Hongyuan Zhan
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
The Alignment Waltz: Jointly Training Agents to Collaborate for Safety
Jingyu Zhang, Haozhu Wang, Eric Michael Smith, Sid Wang, Amr Sharaf, Mahesh Pasupuleti, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi, Jason E Weston, Hongyuan Zhan
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
The Alignment Waltz: Jointly Training Agents to Collaborate for Safety
Jingyu Zhang, Haozhu Wang, Eric Michael Smith, Sid Wang, Amr Sharaf, Mahesh Pasupuleti, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi, Jason E Weston, Hongyuan Zhan
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation
Haoran Xu, Amr Sharaf, Yunmo Chen, Weiting Tan, Lingfeng Shen, Benjamin Van Durme, Kenton Murray, Young Jin Kim
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Paradigm Shift in Machine Translation: Boosting Translation Performance of Large Language Models
Haoran Xu, Young Jin Kim, Amr Sharaf, Hany Hassan Awadalla
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Leveraging GPT-4 for Automatic Translation Post-Editing
Vikas Raunak, Amr Sharaf, Yiren Wang, Hany Hassan Awadalla, Arul Menezes
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
A Flexible Measurement of Diversity in Datasets with Random Network Distillation
Liam H Fowl, Micah Goldblum, Arjun Gupta, Amr Sharaf, Tom Goldstein
- 29 Sept 2021 (modified: 13 Feb 2023)
- ICLR 2022 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
On Hard Episodes in Meta-Learning
Samyadeep Basu, Amr Sharaf, Nicolo Fusi, Soheil Feizi
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
Random Network Distillation as a Diversity Metric for Both Image and Text Generation
Liam H Fowl, Micah Goldblum, Arjun Gupta, Amr Sharaf, Tom Goldstein
- 28 Sept 2020 (modified: 12 Oct 2025)
- ICLR 2021 Conference Blind Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Data Augmentation for Meta-Learning
Renkun Ni, Micah Goldblum, Amr Sharaf, Kezhi Kong, Tom Goldstein
- 28 Sept 2020 (modified: 12 Oct 2025)
- ICLR 2021 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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