Holger Schwenk

Principal Researcher, Facebook

Joined

September 2016

Names

Holger Schwenk (Preferred)

Emails

****@fb.com (Confirmed)

****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Facebook (fb.com)

2015 – 2099

Full Professor

University of Le Mans (lium.univ-lemans.fr)

2007 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Paul-Ambroise Duquenne

Present

Expertise

machine translation

multlinguality

Present

Publications

ECHO: Where Multilingual Sentence Embeddings Speak the Same Language
João Maria Janeiro, Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Ioannis Tsiamas, Artyom Kozhevnikov, David Dale, Belen Alastruey, Alexandre Mourachko, Holger Schwenk, Loic Barrault, Kevin Heffernan, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Unified Vision–Language Modeling via Concept Space Alignment
Yifu QIU, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Holger Schwenk
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BLASER: A Text-Free Speech-to-Speech Translation Evaluation Metric
Mingda Chen, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Pierre Andrews, Justine T Kao, Alexandre Mourachko, Holger Schwenk, Marta R. Costa-jussà
- ACL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
xSIM++: An Improved Proxy to Bitext Mining Performance for Low-Resource Languages
Mingda Chen, Kevin Heffernan, Onur Çelebi, Alexandre Mourachko, Holger Schwenk
- ACL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Aligning Speech Segments Beyond Pure Semantics
Kevin Heffernan, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Loic Barrault, Alexandre Mourachko, Holger Schwenk
- ACL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
Loic Barrault, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Maha Elbayad, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Belen Alastruey, Pierre Andrews, Mariano Coria Meglioli, Guillaume Couairon, Marta R. Costa-jussà, David Dale, Hady Elsahar, Kevin Heffernan, João Maria Janeiro, Tuan Tran, Christophe Ropers, Eduardo Sánchez, Robin San Roman, Alexandre Mourachko, Safiyyah Saleem, Holger Schwenk
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Joint speech and text machine translation for up to 100 languages
Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Loic Barrault, Maha Elbayad, David Dale, Ning Dong, Yu-An Chung, Sravya Popuri, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Holger Schwenk, Changhan Wang, Peng-Jen Chen, Yilin Yang, Anna Sun, Hirofumi Inaguma, Francisco Guzmán, Ann Lee, Alexandre Mourachko, Kevin Heffernan, Hady Elsahar, Hongyu Gong et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- Nature, 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation
Loic Barrault, Yu-An Chung, David Dale, Ning Dong, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Hady Elsahar, Hongyu Gong, Kevin Heffernan, Jean Maillard, Guillaume Wenzek, Peng-Jen Chen, Ilia Kulikov, Min-Jae Hwang, Hirofumi Inaguma, Xutai Ma, Anna Sun, Pierre Andrews, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Onur Çelebi, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan et al. (9 additional authors not shown)
- 08 Dec 2023 (modified: 28 May 2024)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation
Marta R. Costa-jussà, James Cross, Onur Çelebi, Maha Elbayad, Kenneth Heafield, Kevin Heffernan, Elahe Kalbassi, Janice Lam, Daniel Licht, Jean Maillard, Anna Sun, Skyler Wang, Guillaume Wenzek, Al Youngblood, Bapi Akula, Loic Barrault, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Prangthip Hansanti, John Hoffman, Semarley Jarrett et al. (18 additional authors not shown)
- 23 Sept 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
Guillaume Couairon, Jakob Verbeek, Holger Schwenk, Matthieu Cord
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 notable top 25%
- Readers: Everyone

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