Cristian Canton Ferrer

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | SEATTLE, UNITED STATES

Cristian is a Research Scientist Manager on the AI Integrity Team at Facebook AI Applied Research. His research interests lie in the field of computer vision and adversarial machine learning. Cristian currently supports the AI Red Team, which focuses on understanding weaknesses and vulnerabilities derived from the use (or misuse) of AI, related to misinformation and election interference. Previously at Facebook, he managed teams related to the detection of the objectionable and harmful content domain. Prior to joining Facebook, Cristian worked at Microsoft Research and Vicon. He received an M.S. from EPFL in Switzerland and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona.

GitHub

Research Areas

Computer Vision

Conversational AI

Core Machine Learning

Integrity

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Cristian's Work

Eye In-Painting with Exemplar Generative Adversarial Networks

Deep Poisoning Functions: Towards Robust Privacy-safe Image Data Sharing

The Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) Preview Dataset

Cristian's Publications

August 24, 2023

NLP

CORE MACHINE LEARNING

Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code

Baptiste Rozière, Jonas Gehring, Fabian Gloeckle, Sten Sootla, Itai Gat, Ellen Tan, Yossef (Yossi) Adi, Jingyu Liu, Tal Remez, Jérémy Rapin, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Ivan Evtimov, Joanna Bitton, Manish Bhatt, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Aaron Grattafiori, Wenhan Xiong, Alexandre Defossez, Jade Copet, Faisal Azhar, Hugo Touvron, Gabriel Synnaeve, Louis Martin, Nicolas Usunier, Thomas Scialom

August 24, 2023

Read the Paper

July 18, 2023

CONVERSATIONAL AI

NLP

Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Hugo Touvron, Louis Martin, Kevin Stone, Peter Albert, Amjad Almahairi, Yasmine Babaei, Nikolay Bashlykov, Soumya Batra, Praj Bhargava, Shruti Bhosale, Dan Bikel, Lukas Blecher, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Moya Chen, Guillem Cucurull, David Esiobu, Jude Fernandes, Jeremy Fu, Wenyin Fu, Brian Fuller, Cynthia Gao, Vedanuj Goswami, Naman Goyal, Anthony Hartshorn, Saghar Hosseini, Rui Hou, Hakan Inan, Marcin Kardas, Viktor Kerkez, Madian Khabsa, Isabel Kloumann, Artem Korenev, Punit Singh Koura, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Thibaut Lavril, Jenya Lee, Diana Liskovich, Yinghai Lu, Yuning Mao, Xavier Martinet, Todor Mihaylov, Pushkar Mishra, Igor Molybog, Yixin Nie, Andrew Poulton, Jeremy Reizenstein, Rashi Rungta, Kalyan Saladi, Alan Schelten, Ruan Silva, Eric Michael Smith, Ranjan Subramanian, Xiaoqing Ellen Tan, Binh Tang, Ross Taylor, Adina Williams, Andrew Kuan, Puxin Xu, Zheng Yan, Iliyan Zarov, Yuchen Zhang, Angela Fan, Melanie Kambadur, Sharan Narang, Aurelien Rodriguez, Robert Stojnic, Sergey Edunov, Thomas Scialom