Kevin Heffernan

Researcher, Facebook

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March 2022

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Kevin Heffernan (Preferred)

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****@fb.com (Confirmed)

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Researcher

Facebook (fb.com)

2021 – Present

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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
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
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

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Kevin Heffernan

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Career & Education History

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Publications

ECHO: Where Multilingual Sentence Embeddings Speak the Same Language

xSIM++: An Improved Proxy to Bitext Mining Performance for Low-Resource Languages

Aligning Speech Segments Beyond Pure Semantics

Joint speech and text machine translation for up to 100 languages

SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation

No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation

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