Jack Urbanek

35 papers A* 3Journal 23Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
DatBench: Discriminative, Faithful, and Efficient VLM Evaluations.
CoRR
Siddharth Joshi, Haoli Yin, Rishabh Adiga, Ricardo Monti, Aldo Carranza, Alex Fang, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Fan Pan, Haakon Mongstad, Jack Urbanek, Jason Lee, Jason Telanoff, Josh Wills, Kaleigh Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Parth Doshi, Paul Burstein, Pratyush Maini, Scott Loftin, Spandan Das, Tony Jiang, Vineeth Dorna, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt
2026 J jnl
The Finetuner's Fallacy: When to Pretrain with Your Finetuning Data.
CoRR
Christina Baek, Ricardo Pio Monti, David Schwab, Amro Abbas, Rishabh Adiga, Cody Blakeney, Maximilian Böther, Paul Burstein, Aldo Gael Carranza, Alvin Deng, Parth Doshi, Vineeth Dorna, Alex Fang, Tony Jiang, Siddharth Joshi, Brett W. Larsen, Jason Chan Lee, Katherine L. Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Haakon Mongstad, Fan Pan, Anshuman Suri, Darren Teh, Jason Telanoff, Jack Urbanek, Zhengping Wang, Josh Wills, Haoli Yin, Aditi Raghunathan, J. Zico Kolter, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt, Pratyush Maini
2026 J jnl
ÜberWeb: Insights from Multilingual Curation for a 20-Trillion-Token Dataset.
CoRR
Aldo Gael Carranza, Kaleigh Mentzer, Ricardo Pio Monti, Alex Fang, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Anshuman Suri, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Diego Kiner, Fan Pan, Haakon Mongstad, Haoli Yin, Jack Urbanek, Jason Lee, Jason Telanoff, Josh Wills, Luke Merrick, Maximilian Böther, Parth Doshi, Paul Burstein, Pratyush Maini, Rishabh Adiga, Siddharth Joshi, Spandan Das, Tony Jiang, Vineeth Dorna, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt
2025 J jnl
BeyondWeb: Lessons from Scaling Synthetic Data for Trillion-scale Pretraining.
CoRR
Pratyush Maini, Vineeth Dorna, Parth Doshi, Aldo Carranza, Fan Pan, Jack Urbanek, Paul Burstein, Alex Fang, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Charvi Bannur, Christina Baek, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Haakon Mongstad, Haoli Yin, Josh Wills, Kaleigh Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Ricardo Monti, Rishabh Adiga, Siddharth Joshi, Spandan Das, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt
2025 J jnl
Luxical: High-Speed Lexical-Dense Text Embeddings.
CoRR
Luke Merrick, Alex Fang, Aldo Carranza, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Fan Pan, Haakon Mongstad, Haoli Yin, Jack Urbanek, Jason Lee, Jason Telanoff, Josh Wills, Kaleigh Mentzer, Paul Burstein, Parth Doshi, Paul Burnstein, Pratyush Maini, Ricardo Monti, Rishabh Adiga, Scott Loftin, Siddharth Joshi, Spandan Das, Tony Jiang, Vineeth Dorna, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt
2024 A* conf
A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions.
CVPR
Jack Urbanek, Florian Bordes, Pietro Astolfi, Mary Williamson, Vasu Sharma, Adriana Romero-Soriano
2024 J jnl
Improving Text-to-Image Consistency via Automatic Prompt Optimization.
CoRR
Oscar Mañas, Pietro Astolfi, Melissa Hall, Candace Ross, Jack Urbanek, Adina Williams, Aishwarya Agrawal, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal
2024 J jnl
Improving Text-to-Image Consistency via Automatic Prompt Optimization.
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.
Oscar Mañas, Pietro Astolfi, Melissa Hall, Candace Ross, Jack Urbanek, Adina Williams, Aishwarya Agrawal, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal
2024 — conf
Text Motion Translator: A Bi-directional Model for Enhanced 3D Human Motion Generation from Open-Vocabulary Descriptions.
ECCV (63)
Yijun Qian, Jack Urbanek, Alex Hauptmann, Jungdam Won
2023 J jnl
A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions.
CoRR
Jack Urbanek, Florian Bordes, Pietro Astolfi, Mary Williamson, Vasu Sharma, Adriana Romero-Soriano
2023 A* conf
Breaking The Limits of Text-conditioned 3D Motion Synthesis with Elaborative Descriptions.
ICCV
Yijun Qian, Jack Urbanek, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Jungdam Won
2023 J jnl
Infusing Commonsense World Models with Graph Knowledge.
CoRR
Alexander Gurung, Mojtaba Komeili, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Jack Urbanek
2023 J jnl
Mephisto: A Framework for Portable, Reproducible, and Iterative Crowdsourcing.
CoRR
Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia
2023 J jnl
Multi-Party Chat: Conversational Agents in Group Settings with Humans and Models.
CoRR
Jimmy Wei, Kurt Shuster, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Jack Urbanek, Mojtaba Komeili
2022 — conf
Am I Me or You? State-of-the-Art Dialogue Models Cannot Maintain an Identity.
NAACL-HLT (Findings)
Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2022 — conf
Reason first, then respond: Modular Generation for Knowledge-infused Dialogue.
EMNLP (Findings)
Leonard Adolphs, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2021 J jnl
Am I Me or You? State-of-the-Art Dialogue Models Cannot Maintain an Identity.
CoRR
Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2021 — conf
Dialogue in the Wild: Learning from a Deployed Role-Playing Game with Humans and Bots.
ACL/IJCNLP (Findings)
Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2021 — conf
How to Motivate Your Dragon: Teaching Goal-Driven Agents to Speak and Act in Fantasy Worlds.
NAACL-HLT
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Jack Urbanek, Margaret Li, Arthur Szlam, Tim Rocktäschel, Jason Weston
2021 J jnl
Reason first, then respond: Modular Generation for Knowledge-infused Dialogue.
CoRR
Leonard Adolphs, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2020 J jnl
Deploying Lifelong Open-Domain Dialogue Learning.
CoRR
Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2020 A* conf
Generating Interactive Worlds with Text.
AAAI
Angela Fan, Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia, Emily Dinan, Emma Qian, Siddharth Karamcheti, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Douwe Kiela, Tim Rocktäschel, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2020 J jnl
How to Motivate Your Dragon: Teaching Goal-Driven Agents to Speak and Act in Fantasy Worlds.
CoRR
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Jack Urbanek, Margaret Li, Arthur Szlam, Tim Rocktäschel, Jason Weston
2020 J jnl
I love your chain mail! Making knights smile in a fantasy game world: Open-domain goal-oriented dialogue agents.
CoRR
Shrimai Prabhumoye, Margaret Li, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston, Arthur Szlam
2020 J jnl
Open-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions.
CoRR
Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, David Gunning, Da Ju, Margaret Li, Spencer Poff, Pratik Ringshia, Kurt Shuster, Eric Michael Smith, Arthur Szlam, Jack Urbanek, Mary Williamson
2020 — conf
Queens are Powerful too: Mitigating Gender Bias in Dialogue Generation.
EMNLP (1)
Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, Adina Williams, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
2019 J jnl
Generating Interactive Worlds with Text.
CoRR
Angela Fan, Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia, Emily Dinan, Emma Qian, Siddharth Karamcheti, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Douwe Kiela, Tim Rocktäschel, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2019 — conf
Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game.
EMNLP/IJCNLP (1)
Jack Urbanek, Angela Fan, Siddharth Karamcheti, Saachi Jain, Samuel Humeau, Emily Dinan, Tim Rocktäschel, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2019 J jnl
Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game.
CoRR
Jack Urbanek, Angela Fan, Siddharth Karamcheti, Saachi Jain, Samuel Humeau, Emily Dinan, Tim Rocktäschel, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston
2019 J jnl
Queens are Powerful too: Mitigating Gender Bias in Dialogue Generation.
CoRR
Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, Adina Williams, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
2019 J jnl
The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2).
CoRR
Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander H. Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Jason D. Williams, Joelle Pineau, Mikhail Burtsev, Jason Weston
2018 — conf
Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent.
ICLR (Poster)
Zhilin Yang, Saizheng Zhang, Jack Urbanek, Will Feng, Alexander H. Miller, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
2018 — conf
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
ACL (1)
Saizheng Zhang, Emily Dinan, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
2018 J jnl
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
CoRR
Saizheng Zhang, Emily Dinan, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston
2017 J jnl
Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent.
CoRR
Zhilin Yang, Saizheng Zhang, Jack Urbanek, Will Feng, Alexander H. Miller, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston