Melvin Johnson

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Joined

October 2018

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Melvin Johnson (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Senior Software Engineer

Google (google.com)

2015 – Present

MS student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2013 – 2015

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Publications

XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages
Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin, Mihir Kale, Min Ma, Massimo Nicosia, Shruti Rijhwani, Parker Riley, Jean Michel Amath Sarr, Xinyi Wang, John Frederick Wieting, Nitish Gupta, Anna Katanova, Christo Kirov, Dana L Dickinson, Brian Roark, Bidisha Samanta, Connie Tao, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Axelrod et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Few-shot Learning for Machine Translation
Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George Foster, Maxim Krikun, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mu$^2$SLAM: Multitask, Multilingual Speech and Language Models
Yong Cheng, Yu Zhang, Melvin Johnson, Wolfgang Macherey, Ankur Bapna
- ICML 2023 OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone
mSLAM: Massively multilingual joint pre-training for speech and text
Ankur Bapna, Colin Cherry, Yu Zhang, Ye Jia, Melvin Johnson, Yong Cheng, Simran Khanuja, Jason Riesa, Alexis Conneau
- 16 Nov 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
True Bilingual NMT
Mohamed Anwar, Lekan Raheem, Maab Elrasheed, Melvin Johnson, Julia Kreutzer
- Published: 08 Apr 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- AfricaNLP 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Distilling Large Language Models into Tiny and Effective Students using pQRNN
Prabhu Kaliamoorthi, Aditya Siddhant, Edward Li, Melvin Johnson
- 2021 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
They, Them, Theirs: Rewriting with Gender-Neutral English
Tony Sun, Kellie Webster, Apurva Shah, William Yang Wang, Melvin Johnson
- 2021 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Gradient-guided Loss Masking for Neural Machine Translation
Xinyi Wang, Ankur Bapna, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
- 2021 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Rethinking Embedding Coupling in Pre-trained Language Models
Hyung Won Chung, Thibault Fevry, Henry Tsai, Melvin Johnson, Sebastian Ruder
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 03 Apr 2024
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
XTREME: A Massively Multilingual Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Generalization
Junjie Hu, Sebastian Ruder, Aditya Siddhant, Graham Neubig, Orhan Firat, Melvin Johnson
- 2020 (modified: 15 May 2025)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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