Loic Barrault

Joined

June 2021

Names

Loic Barrault (Preferred)

Loïc Barrault

Emails

****@sheffield.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@univ-lemans.fr (Confirmed)

****@fb.com (Confirmed)

****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Meta AI (meta.com)

2022 – 2025

Lecturer

University of Sheffield (sheffield.ac.uk)

2019 – 2021

Lecturer

University of Le Mans (univ-lemans.fr)

2010 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Machine Translation

Present

Natural Language Processing

Present

Speech Processing

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
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
MEXMA: Token-level objectives improve sentence representations
João Maria Janeiro, Benjamin Piwowarski, Patrick Gallinari, Loic Barrault
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
We Need to Talk About Classification Evaluation Metrics in NLP
Peter Vickers, Loic Barrault, Emilio Monti, Nikolaos Aletras
- AACL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
In Factuality: Efficient Integration of Relevant Facts for Visual Question Answering
Peter Vickers, Nikolaos Aletras, Emilio Monti, Loic Barrault
- ACL 2021
- 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
HalOmi: A Manually Annotated Benchmark for Multilingual Hallucination and Omission Detection in Machine Translation
David Dale, Elena Voita, Janice Lam, Prangthip Hansanti, Christophe Ropers, Elahe Kalbassi, Cynthia Gao, Loic Barrault, Marta R. Costa-jussà
- EMNLP 2023 Main
- 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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