Cristian Canton Ferrer

Full Professor, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Joined

December 2017

Names

Cristian Canton

Cristian Canton-Ferrer

Emails

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (bsc.es)

2025 – Present

Principal Researcher

Meta (meta.com)

2017 – 2025

Principal Researcher

Research, Microsoft (research.microsoft.com)

2013 – 2017

PhD student

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (upc.edu)

2004 – 2008

MS student

EPFL - EPF Lausanne (epfl.ch)

2003 – 2003

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Josep R. Casas

2004 – 2008

Expertise

fairness

robustness

image manipulation

representation learning

2000 – Present

Publications

Automated Red Teaming with GOAT: the Generative Offensive Agent Tester
Maya Pavlova, Erik Brinkman, Krithika Iyer, Vítor Albiero, Joanna Bitton, Hailey Nguyen, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Ivan Evtimov, Aaron Grattafiori
- BuildingTrust
- Readers: Everyone
Automated Red Teaming with GOAT: the Generative Offensive Agent Tester
Maya Pavlova, Erik Brinkman, Krithika Iyer, Vítor Albiero, Joanna Bitton, Hailey Nguyen, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Ivan Evtimov, Aaron Grattafiori
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Automated Red Teaming with GOAT: the Generative Offensive Agent Tester
Maya Pavlova, Erik Brinkman, Krithika Iyer, Vítor Albiero, Joanna Bitton, Hailey Nguyen, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Ivan Evtimov, Aaron Grattafiori
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Fairness-Aware Meta-Learning via Nash Bargaining
Yi Zeng, Xuelin Yang, Li Chen, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Ming Jin, Michael Jordan, Ruoxi Jia
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code
Jingyu Liu, Baptiste Roziere, Jonas Gehring, Fabian Gloeckle, Sten Sootla, Itai Gat, Xiaoqing Tan, Yossi Adi, Tal Remez, Jérémy Rapin, Ivan Evtimov, Joanna Bitton, Manish Bhatt, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Wenhan Xiong, Alexandre Défossez, Jade Copet, Hugo Touvron, Louis Martin, Nicolas Usunier et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Hate speech in pixels: Detection of offensive memes towards automatic moderation
Benet Oriol Sabat, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto, Cristian Canton Ferrer
- 05 Nov 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Preserving integrity in online social networks
Alon Y. Halevy, Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Hao Ma, Umut Ozertem, Patrick Pantel, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ves Stoyanov
- 2022 (modified: 04 Oct 2022)
- Commun. ACM 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Measuring Fairness in AI: The Casual Conversations Dataset
Caner Hazirbas, Joanna Bitton, Brian Dolhansky, Jacqueline Pan, Albert Gordo, Cristian Canton-Ferrer
- 2022 (modified: 04 Oct 2022)
- IEEE Trans. Biom. Behav. Identity Sci. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Generating High Fidelity Data from Low-density Regions using Diffusion Models
Vikash Sehwag, Caner Hazirbas, Albert Gordo, Firat Ozgenel, Cristian Canton-Ferrer
- 2022 (modified: 04 Oct 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Affective Signals in a Social Media Recommender System
Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Yi-Chia Wang, Lijing Qin, Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Alon Y. Halevy
- 2022 (modified: 04 Oct 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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